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83 produkter
Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80
The Pursuit of Identity and Power
Inbunden, 1999
1224 kr
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In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants and unveils the ongoing struggle over the definition …
Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80
The Pursuit of Identity and Power
Häftad, 2000
427 kr
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In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants and unveils the ongoing struggle over the definition …
Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen
Av Yijiang Ding
Häftad, 2002
398 kr
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In 1989, most observers believed that China's political reformprocess had been violently short-circuited, but few would now disputethat China is in a very important transition. Central to thistransition has been an extraordinary change in the formal intellectualconception of 'democracy.' In this …
Scars of War
The Impact of Warfare on Modern China
Av Diana Lary, Stephen MacKinnon
Inbunden, 2001
1224 kr
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Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immensedestruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods ofwarfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millionsof civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modernwar-related death and suffering has …
Obedient Autonomy
Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
Inbunden, 2004
1224 kr
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In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom – a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of "obedient" autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and …
Obedient Autonomy
Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
Häftad, 2005
427 kr
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In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom – a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of "obedient" autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and …
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
Häftad, 2004
682 kr
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The 1980s and 1990s represent a critical historical juncture forHong Kong, as it underwent important social, political, and economictransformations. This period of transition, during which the stateworked to redefine itself, significantly altered the role and status ofHong Kong women. Colonial …
Cult of Happiness
Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
Inbunden, 2004
456 kr
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History and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally "New Year pictures." By analyzing the role of nianhua first in the home and later in commercial and political theatres, James Flath relates these artworks to the social, cultural, …
Gutenberg in Shanghai
Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
Häftad, 2005
415 kr
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In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age ofChinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technologicaltransformation that included the drastic expansion of China's"Gutenberg revolution." Gutenberg in Shanghai examines this process. It finds the origins of that revolution in thecountry's …
Chinese State at the Borders
Av Diana Lary
Häftad, 2008
427 kr
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In this ground-breaking study, Hsiao Ting Lin demonstrates that the Chinese frontier was the subject neither of concerted aggression on the part of a centralized and indoctrinated Chinese government nor of an ideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics. Instead, nationalist sovereignty over …
Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
Av Norman Smith
Häftad, 2008
455 kr
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Norman Smith reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the period. Smith shows how a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese …
Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
Häftad, 2007
427 kr
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Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern ChineseNation-State is an innovative account of educational and socialtransformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-centuryChina. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers'schools, which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the …
Smokeless Sugar
The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
Inbunden, 2010
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Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, SmokelessSugar reveals how the concept of a national economy took shape inChina by investigating the 1936 execution of Feng Rui, a provincialofficial who introduced modern sugar milling in Guangdong.Examining the circumstances of Feng Rui's …
Smokeless Sugar
The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
Häftad, 2011
398 kr
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Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, SmokelessSugar reveals how the concept of a national economy took shape inChina by investigating the 1936 execution of Feng Rui, a provincialofficial who introduced modern sugar milling in Guangdong.Examining the circumstances of Feng Rui's …
New Silk Road Diplomacy
China's Central Asian Foreign Policy Since the Cold War
Häftad, 2010
415 kr
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan sprang up as independent states along China's western frontier. Suddenly, Beijing was forced to deal with internal challenges to its authority at its border as well as international …
Eating Bitterness
New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine
Av Kimberley Ens Manning, Felix Wemheuer
Häftad, 2012
416 kr
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When the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." A little over a decade later, China was in the midst of the most devastating famine in modern history. Between 1957 and 1962 – the years commonly associated with Mao's Great Leap …
School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Inbunden, 2012
1094 kr
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In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower.A School in Every Village recounts how villagersand local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders toestablish rural primary schools from 1904 to …
School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Häftad, 2013
427 kr
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In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower. A School in Every Village recounts how villagersand local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders toestablish rural primary schools from 1904 to …
Merry Laughter and Angry Curses
The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911
Av Juan Wang
Inbunden, 2012
1286 kr
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The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the "little" or "minor" …
Merry Laughter and Angry Curses
The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911
Av Juan Wang
Häftad, 2013
445 kr
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The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the "little" or "minor" …
Chieftains Into Ancestors
Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China
Av David Faure, Ts'ui-p'ing Ho
Inbunden, 2013
1152 kr
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Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual.Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and …
Chieftains Into Ancestors
Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China
Av David Faure, Ts'ui-p'ing Ho
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual.Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and …
Milestones on a Golden Road
Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80
Av Richard King
Inbunden, 2013
1286 kr
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In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presentspivotal works of fiction produced in four key periods of Chineserevolutionary history: the civil war (1945-49), the Great Leap Forward(1958-60), the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), and the post-Maocatharsis (1979-80). Taking its cues from the …
Intoxicating Manchuria
Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
Av Norman Smith
Inbunden, 2012
456 kr
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In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely …
Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from …
Sporting Gender
Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making During China's National Crisis, 1931-45
Av Yunxiang Gao
Inbunden, 2013
1152 kr
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Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped …
Sporting Gender
Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making During China's National Crisis, 1931-45
Av Yunxiang Gao
Häftad, 2014
398 kr
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Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped …
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Av Peipei Qiu
Häftad, 2014
369 kr
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This is the first English-language book to record the experiences and testimonies of Chinese women abducted and detained as sex slaves in Japanese military "comfort stations" during Japan's 1931-45 invasion of China.
Remembering the Samsui Women
Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China
Inbunden, 2014
1152 kr
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In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or …
Remembering the Samsui Women
Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China
Häftad, 2015
603 kr
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In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or …
