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Death in Ancient China
The Tale of One Man's Journey
Inbunden, 2006
2314 kr
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This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite …
Red-light Novels of the late Qing
Av Chloë Starr
Inbunden, 2007
2838 kr
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Chinese literature has traditionally been divided by both theorists and university course providers into ‘classical’ and ‘modern.’ This has left nineteenth-century fiction in limbo, and allowed negative assessments of its quality to persist unchecked. The popularity of Qing dynasty red-light …
Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949
Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur
Inbunden, 2008
2948 kr
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Based on a wide range of Western and local materials, this book offers an introduction to the historical anthropology of the Muslim Uyghur of Xinjiang from the late 19th century to 1949. The author argues that social relations in this era were shaped at all levels by the principles of reciprocity …
State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest
Av Xiaolin Guo
Inbunden, 2008
2507 kr
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Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two ethnically different communities, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patrilineal Han, in northwest Yunnan province, the …
Different Worlds of Discourse
Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Av Nanxiu Qian, Grace Fong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2992 kr
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During the late Qing reform era (1895-1912), women for the first time in Chinese history emerged in public space in collective groups. They assumed new social and educational roles and engaged in intense debates about the place of women in China's present and future. These debates found expression …
Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu
Inbunden, 2011
3078 kr
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Intellectual developments of the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE – 9 CE) have been studied hitherto on the assumptions that a system described as ‘Confucianism’ acquired paramount importance and that Dong Zhongshu (ca. 198 to ca. 107 BCE) had been responsible for formulating its principles. In …
China on the Sea
How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
Inbunden, 2011
3010 kr
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Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached …
Springboard to Victory
Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
Inbunden, 2011
3036 kr
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Did the Chinese Communists use money or banking systems during their struggle for national power? In the West, this question was not answered, or even raised, for sixty years after the Communists took over China in 1949. This book examines the Communists’ revenue and supply system during the …
Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series
Inbunden, 2012
2631 kr
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Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series has been granted the EastAsiaNet 2014 Award!In Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series, Florian Schneider analyses political discourses in Chinese TV dramas, the most popular entertainment format in …
Visualising China, 1845-1965
Life/Still images in Historical Narratives
Inbunden, 2012
3828 kr
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How does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the globalizing 21st century as they travel overseas, riding on the capacity of the country’s newly …
Fragmenting Modernisms
Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, and Film, 1937-49
Inbunden, 2013
3229 kr
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In Fragmenting Modernisms, Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of works of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art, produced in various locations throughout …
Saving Lives in Wartime China
How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945
Av John R. Watt
Inbunden, 2013
3063 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, …
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
Av Jing Tsu
Inbunden, 2014
2518 kr
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The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural …
Signifying the Local
Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium
Av Jin Liu
Inbunden, 2013
2752 kr
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In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which …
Print, Profit, and Perception
Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949
Inbunden, 2014
2606 kr
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Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from the first Sino-Japanese War to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing examples from various genres, this interdisciplinary volume presents nine empirically grounded case studies on the growth …
Shanghai Filmmaking
Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938
Av HUANG Xuelei
Inbunden, 2014
3157 kr
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In Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese film studio in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that Shanghai …
Struggle by the Pen
The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c.1900-1949
Inbunden, 2015
2772 kr
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In Struggle by the Pen, Ondřej Klimeš explores the emergence of national consciousness and nationalist ideology of Uyghurs in Xinjiang from c. 1900-1949. Drawing from texts written by modern Uyghur intellectuals, politicians and propagandists throughout this period, he identifies diverse types of …
Singing on the River
Sichuan Boatmen and Their Work Songs, 1880s - 1930s
Inbunden, 2015
2834 kr
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Singing on the River by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen’s work songs (haozi), explores the little known world of mentality and self-representation of Chinese workers from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Chabrowski demonstrates how river …
Saving Lives in Wartime China
How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945
Av John R. Watt
Häftad, 2015
830 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, …
Problems of Han Administration
Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest
Inbunden, 2016
2338 kr
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Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China’s early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor’s predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical …
Muslim Sanzijing
Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China
Inbunden, 2016
2030 kr
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In Muslim Sanzijing, Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China (1710-2010) Roberta Tontini traces the development of Islam and Islamic law in the country, while responding to two enduring questions in China’s intellectual history: How was the Muslim sharia reconciled with …
Patriots' Game
Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917-1953
Av Man Bun Kwan
Inbunden, 2016
2472 kr
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“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private …
Making of a Modern Art World
Institutionalization and Legitimatization of Guohua in Republican Shanghai
Inbunden, 2017
2797 kr
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The Making of A Modern Art World explores the artistic institutions and discursive practices prevailing in Republican Shanghai, aiming to reconstruct the operational logic and the stratified hierarchy of Shanghai’s art world. Using guohua as the point of entry, this book interrogates the discourse …
Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950
Understanding Chaoben Culture
Inbunden, 2018
3675 kr
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In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding …
Making of the Human Sciences in China
Historical and Conceptual Foundations
Inbunden, 2019
3345 kr
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This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering …
‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage
Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age
Av Paul Bevan
Inbunden, 2020
3704 kr
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In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it …
Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century
Av Yunxiang Yan
Inbunden, 2021
2489 kr
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Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational …
Chinese Animation and Socialism
From Animators’ Perspectives
Av Daisy Yan Du
Inbunden, 2021
2354 kr
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Please visit our blog to read an interview with Daisy Yan Du. This volume on Chinese animation and socialism is the first in English that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China. Although a few monographs have been published in English …
Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Av Yan Gao
Inbunden, 2022
2108 kr
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This book centers on the history of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a hydraulic frontier where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain had become a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the …
River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China
Av Qian Zhu
Inbunden, 2021
2400 kr
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This book explores the overexploitation of river-sand and its impact on Zhuang communities in China. A topical phenomenon, the book engages with the concept of authoritarian environmental management through a detailed analysis of state laws and policies on river-sand mining. Additional rich …
