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Power over Property
The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China
Häftad, 2020
519 kr
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Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world’s peasants. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 …
Global White Snake
Av Liang Luo
Häftad, 2021
579 kr
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The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvented in the Chinese, …
Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences
An Empirical Examination
Häftad, 2021
443 kr
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Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In …
Resisting Spirits
Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China
Häftad, 2019
332 kr
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Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers’ experiments with ghosts and ghost plays. Maggie Greene combines rare manuscript materials—such …
Going to the Countryside
The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965
Av Yu Zhang
Häftad, 2020
443 kr
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth had often crossed the increasing gap between the city and the countryside, which made the act of “going to the countryside” a distinctively modern …
Governing and Ruling
The Political Logic of Taxation in China
Häftad, 2021
504 kr
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Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic liberalization can lead to political instability and the collapse of authoritarian regimes. Despite experiencing all of these unprecedented changes in the past forty years, China under the …
Power of Freedom
Hu Shih's Political Writings
Häftad, 2022
519 kr
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Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a …
Televising Chineseness
Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
Av Geng Song
Häftad, 2022
383 kr
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The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment …
Righteous Revolutionaries
Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
Häftad, 2022
457 kr
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Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality—shared understandings of right and wrong—to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party’s mass mobilization of …
Rejuvenating Communism
Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Av Jérôme Doyon
Häftad, 2023
395 kr
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Working for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how …
Disruptions as Opportunities
Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
Av Taiyi Sun
Häftad, 2023
395 kr
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Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey …
Currency of Truth
Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era
Häftad, 2023
323 kr
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China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with …
China as Number One?
The Emerging Values of a Rising Power
Av Yang Zhong, Ronald F. Inglehart
Häftad, 2024
383 kr
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One of the most significant global events in the last forty years has been the rise of China— economically, technologically, politically, and militarily. The question on people's minds for decades has been whether China will replace the United States as a superpower in the near future. But for …
Seeking a Future for the Past
Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City
Häftad, 2024
443 kr
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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of …
Paris and the Art of Transposition
Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters
Av Angie Chau
Häftad, 2023
440 kr
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A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad specifically to study Western art and literature, …
In Search of Admiration and Respect
Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974
Av Yanqiu Zheng
Häftad, 2024
395 kr
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In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People’s Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China’s …
Engineering Stability
Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities
Av Xiaojun Yan
Häftad, 2024
383 kr
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While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a postcrisis state to respond to updated concepts, new …
Gendered Memories
An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs
Av Xian Wang
Häftad, 2025
440 kr
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Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices have been remembered, commemorated, and manipulated throughout history. …
Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building
Häftad, 2025
443 kr
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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-first century. …
Creative Belonging
The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain understudied or unknown in the West. The Qiang, one of modern China’s officially recognized ethnic minorities, is also China’s longest-standing …
Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society
Av Mujun Zhou
Häftad, 2026
457 kr
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The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society examines how a group of Chinese intellectual elites referred to as the liberals or ziyou pai edified the civil society project beginning in the 1990s to build an independent space to constrain state power, increase political participation, and promote …
Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
Av Charles A. Laughlin, Li Guo
Häftad, 2026
510 kr
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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to …
China’s Date Debate
How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II
Av Emily Matson
Häftad, 2026
395 kr
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China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the previously accepted starting date of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, the Chinese …
Home Team Away
Watching European Football in Urban China
Av Yuan Gong
Häftad, 2026
383 kr
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Home Team Away calls for a rethinking of sport fandom that is divorced from an attachment to location. As the first comprehensive account of the European football fandom in China, this book explores how the Chinese middle class subjectivity is formed through the cross-cultural, digital consumption …
Great Separation
The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism
Av Xiaohong Xu, Roi Livne m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
463 kr
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With a keen attention to how culture and elite conflict shape politics, The Great Separation upends deterministic understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed. This ambitious posthumous volume by sociologist Xiaohong Xu turns the existing scholarship on …
Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders
Av Shuang Shen
Häftad, 2027
579 kr
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Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders examines Sinophone literary and cultural production in relation to the politics of the global Cold War and decolonization in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. As we reckon with the historical and contemporary geopolitical standoffs in the Cold …
Brutal Ephemerality
Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe
Av Yang Zhan
Häftad, 2027
395 kr
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How do you build a hopeful future when your present is designed to be temporary? Brutal Ephemerality reveals that the sprawling urban villages on the edge of megacities such as Beijing aren’t slums that grew by accident. Instead, urban villages are intentionally kept in a state of uncertainty, …
Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City
Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900–1930
Av Qiliang He
Häftad, 2027
348 kr
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In early twentieth-century Shanghai, cinema was more than entertainment—it reshaped the city itself. As movie theaters appealed to city dwellers of all backgrounds, colonial authorities struggled to manage this new public space and introduced new safety rules, censorship, and anti-crime measures. …
Ambivalent Desires
Affect and Boys Love in China
Av Liang Ge
Häftad, 2027
440 kr
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Ambivalent Desires carefully investigates Chinese danmei creators’ and fans’ everyday affective experiences in the dynamic yet ambivalent boys love cultural ecology of China. Emerging in mainland China in the late 1990s and flourishing in the 2010s, danmei, also known as boys love fiction, is a …
Weapons of the People
The Culture and Politics of Guns in Modern China
Av Lei Duan
Häftad, 2027
348 kr
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Why did a country that once mobilized millions of armed civilians become one of the most tightly regulated gun societies in the world? Weapons of the People traces the history of private gun ownership in modern China, from the late Qing dynasty to the early People’s Republic of China. Far from …
