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Double Jeopardy
A Critique of Seven Yüan Courtroom Dramas
Häftad, 1978
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Traditionally, criticism of plays from the Yüan Dynasty (1260–1368) has been dominated by the so-called poetic and socialist schools. Double Jeopardy instead rigorously evaluates a group of plays by aesthetic criteria generated from within the works themselves. It examines seven courtroom plays …
Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth
Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry
Av Cecile Sun
Häftad, 2021
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The interplay between the external world (ching) and the poet’s inner world (ch’ing) lies at the heart of Chinese poetry, and understanding the interaction of the two is crucial to understanding this work from within its own tradition. Closely coordinating her discussions of poetry and criticism so …
Nineteenth-Century China
Five Imperialist Perspectives
Häftad, 2021
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Materials from the past that wrongly anticipate the future, or present information or judgments that are later proved misleading or erroneous, are sometimes overlooked in reconstructing the past. Yet such documents are as legimiate, and perhaps as important, as those that are vindicated by events …
Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas
Av J. I. Crump, William P. Malm
Häftad, 2021
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Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas is the result of a conference on the relations between Chinese and Japanese music-drama held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 1–4, 1971. In addition to the Association for Asian Studies, four U-M departments participated in the conference: the …
Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)
Häftad, 2021
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Better known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of …
Matrix of Lyric Transformation
Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry
Häftad, 2021
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Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to …
Salt and State
An Annotated Translation of the <em>Songshi</em> Salt Monopoly Treatise
Häftad, 2021
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Salt and State is an annotated translation of a treatise on salt from Song China. From its inception in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.), the salt monopoly was a key component in the Chinese government's financial toolkit. Salt, with its highly localized and large-scale production, was an ideal …
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age
A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840
Häftad, 2021
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy, providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered by the texts include water control, mining, …
Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists
Revised Edition
Häftad, 2021
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In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around …
China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations
Av Martin Whyte
Häftad, 2021
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China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations counters the widely accepted notion that traditional family patterns are weakened by forces such as economic development and social revolutions. China has experienced wrenching changes on both the economic and the political fronts, yet from the …
Appropriation and Representation
Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story
Av Shuhui Yang
Häftad, 2021
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Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty stories, collectively known as Sanyan. Appropriation and Representation …
Two Studies on Ming History
Häftad, 2021
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In the first study of Two Studies on Ming History, Charles O. Hucker presents an account of a military campaign that provides insight into the nature of civil officials’ authority, decision-making, and relationship with the Ming court. In the spring and summer of 1556, a Chinese renegade named Hsü …
Ming Dynasty
Its Origins and Evolving Institutions
Häftad, 2021
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In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368–1644), and reasserted the …
Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting
Av Robert Maeda
Häftad, 2021
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Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch’un-ch’uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsüan-ho era. The …
Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China
Häftad, 2021
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The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a “vanguard” role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to …
Swallows and Settlers
The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria
Av Thomas Gottschang, Diana Lary
Häftad, 2021
209 kr
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Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population …
Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming
Av Dale Johnson
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who …
Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China
The Emergence of New Approaches
Häftad, 2021
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How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity understandable through the similarly structured human mind. It involves a …
Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution
Häftad, 2021
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Shanghai’s January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China’s Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, along with the subsequent attempt to establish a “commune” form of municipal government, has greatly shaped our understanding both of the goals …
Modern China, 1840–1972
An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids
Häftad, 2021
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Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity, in unsystematic and unreliable bits and pieces. The field has now developed to the point where this need not and ought not to be so. It is now …
“Proletarian Hegemony” in the Chinese Revolution and the Canton Commune of 1927
Häftad, 2021
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The Communist aim of proletarian hegemony in the Chinese revolution was given concrete expression through the Canton Commune—reflected in the policies and strategies that led to the uprising, in the makeup and program of the Soviet setup in Canton, and in the subsequent assessment of the revolt by …
Cultural Revolution
1967 in Review
Av Michel Oksenberg, Carl Riskin m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
146 kr
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The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the …
Between Two Plenums
China’s Intraleadership Conflict, 1959–1962
Av Ellis Joffe
Häftad, 2021
146 kr
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The origins of the Cultural Revolution are still shrouded in uncertainty. Crucial questions either remain unanswered or have been given answers which derive from conflicting interpretations. To what period can the direct origins of the Cultural Revolution be traced? What issues, if any, divided the …
Economy of Communist China, 1949–1969
Häftad, 2021
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Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. In the first half of this period, a series of massive transformations of …
Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Painting Catalogues and Related Texts
Häftad, 2021
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The student of Chinese painting must from time to time consult John C. Ferguson’s Li-tai chu-lu hua mu, an index to Chinese paintings recorded in Chinese catalogues. The catalogues in which the paintings are compiled are of equal interest: their compilers, the date of their compilation, their …
Labor and the Chinese Revolution
Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948
Av S. Thomas, S. Bernard Thomas
Häftad, 2021
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In the two-decade period from 1928 to 1948, the proletarian themes and issues underlying the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological utterances were shrouded in rhetoric designed, perhaps, as much to disguise as to chart actual class strategies. Rhetoric notwithstanding, a careful analysis of such …
Early Communist China
Two Studies
Av Ronald Suleski, Daniel Bays
Häftad, 1969
147 kr
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Contains two detailed case studies. In “The Fu-t’ien Incident, December 1930,” Ronald Suleski describes the pivotal incident in the power struggle between Mao Zedong and the Communist Central Committee. Daniel Bays’s study of “Agrarian Reform in Kwangtung, 1950–1953” focuses upon the measures taken …
Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968
An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings
Häftad, 1969
386 kr
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This bibliography includes publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings now in Chinese public or private collections. The great majority of these publications were produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Japan. Each publication included in the …
China’s Allocation of Fixed Capital Investment, 1952–1957
Häftad, 1974
147 kr
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China’s efforts to stimulate industrial development and economic growth through the allocation of investments are analyzed. Cheng concludes with an overall assessment of the distinctive features of the allocation pattern. Includes 41 statistical tables.
Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan
Av Peter Donovan, Carl E. Dorris m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
143 kr
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During the long years of civil strife in China the Nationalist authorities amassed extensive materials on their Communist adversaries. Now stored in government institutions on Taiwan, these materials are an excellent source for the study of the Chinese Communist movement. Among them is the Bureau …
