Alternative Sinology – serie
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Advocacy Trap
Transnational Activism and State Power in China
Inbunden, 2017
1263 kr
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What does China’s rise mean for transnational civil society? What happens when global activist networks engage a powerful and norm-resistant new hegemon? This book combines detailed ethnographic research with cross-case comparisons to identify key factors underpinning variation in the results and …
Communists Constructing Capitalism
State, Market, and the Party in China’s Financial Reform
Av Julian Gruin
Inbunden, 2019
1227 kr
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Why has China’s ‘transition’ to a market economy not catalysed corresponding political transformation? In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and capitalist economics, this book offers a novel perspective on this central dilemma of contemporary Chinese development, shedding …
Communists Constructing Capitalism
State, Market, and the Party in China’s Financial Reform
Av Julian Gruin
Häftad, 2019
371 kr
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Why has China’s ‘transition’ to a market economy not catalysed corresponding political transformation? In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and capitalist economics, this book offers a novel perspective on this central dilemma of contemporary Chinese development, shedding …
Voices from the Underworld
Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy …
Voices from the Underworld
Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia
E-bok, 2020
1177 kr
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In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy …
Voices from the Underworld
Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia
E-bok, 2020
1212 kr
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In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy …
Conceptualising China Through Translation
Inbunden, 2023
1236 kr
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This monograph provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically by tracing the development of four key cultural terms (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) between English and Chinese. It addresses how specific ideas about what constitutes the …
Chinese Religion in Contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The Cult of the Two Grand Elders
Häftad, 2022
364 kr
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In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy …
Revolution in China and Russia
Reorganizing empires into nation states
Av Luyang Zhou
Inbunden, 2025
1263 kr
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Most scholars believe that China’s nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an “affirmative action empire.” This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it …
China as context
Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China
Av Di Wu, Andrea E. Pia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1298 kr
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Decades-old calls to recognise China’s significance for anthropological theory and the social sciences are more urgent than ever. Yet, Chinese-grounded ideas remain marginal, with China often seen as an ‘Other’ rather than a source of widely applicable theory. Drawing on East Asian postcolonial …
Conceptualising China through translation
Häftad, 2026
382 kr
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This monograph provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically by tracing the development of four key cultural terms (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) between English and Chinese. It addresses how specific ideas about what constitutes the …
Revolution in China and Russia
Reorganizing empires into nation states
Av Luyang Zhou
Häftad, 2027
374 kr
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Most scholars believe that China’s nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an “affirmative action empire.” This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it …
