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The Religious Question in Modern China
Vincent GoossaertThe Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and ...
Journal of Contemporary China: Dang Dai Zhongguo
Center for Modern ChinaMay 4th and June 4th Compared: a sociological study of Chinese social movements ZHIDONG HAO* \* o^\ There has been much talk about a link between the May 4th and June 4th Movements, but there is rarely a systematic study of it.
Modern China
Xiaobing LiProviding an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and ...
To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
Orville SchellEssays describe the contradictions of life in modern China, looks at the changes since Mao''s death, and suggests what directions China will take in the future
Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in ...
PreviewIn Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China.
China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Development Research Center of the State CouncilBuilding a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society Development Research Center of the State Council, The World Bank. Sen Gong (DRC) and Philip O' Keefe (World Bank) and comprising Dewen Wang (World Bank) and Liejun Wang ...
Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
Laurence SchneiderUsing the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era.
Korea in the New Asia: East Asian Integration and the China ...
PreviewKim,SamuelS. (2003) “China and North Korea in a Changing World”, Asia Program Special Report, (Woodrow WilsonInternational Center forScholars), no. 115 (September), 11–17. ——(2001) “The Making of China's Korea Policy in theEraof ...
Sport and Nationalism in China
Zhouxiang Lu65. Fan and Lu, The Politicisation ofSport in Modern China: Communists and Champions. 66. Ibid. 67. Guoqi Xu, “Sports, Nationalism, and Global Politics: Why China Wanted the Olympics,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed May 6, 2013, ...
China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and ...
Kent G DengChanges and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000 Kent G Deng. Part I 1 Introduction Changes in modern China and their causes Overview Part I.
The Search for Modern China
Jonathan D. SpenceRevised to reflect updates to The Search for Modern China, third edition, this outstanding collection displays a strong blend of social history (pieces dealing with everyday life, family, social networks, and culture) and political history ...
China: The New Generation
Jean-Marc DecropThis visionary, forward-looking selection of twenty young artists is the work of two key figures in China's art scene, namely Jerome Sans, co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and former director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary ...
Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional ...
Linsun Cheng... Press, 1934). 43 Rondo Cameron, "The Banker as Entrepreneur," in Explorations in Entrepreneurial History \ (Fall 1963): 51. 44 Fumio Yamada, " Capital for Japan's Cotton Textile Industry," in 82 Banking in Modern China.
A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, ...
Joseph Lawson... China: Communities and Cultural Production Bridie Andrews, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960 Kelvin E.Y. Low, Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China Jiayan Zhang, ...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Evelyn S. RawskiEvelyn Rawski presents a revisionist history of early modern China in the context of northeast Asian geopolitics and global maritime trade.
Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, ...
Preview"The essays in this volume come mostly out of the conference, 'First Impressions: The Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th centuries), ' that took place at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, ...
China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom
PreviewS. ROBERT RAMSEY. 4. The. Languages. of. China. In this very clear yet technical chapter, Robert Ramsey describes the sorts of differences that exist among the contemporary dialects of Chinese, usually divided into seven major groups, ...
The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations
Christopher A. FordSee Chusei Suzuki, “China's Foreign Relations with Inner Asia: The Hsiung-nu, Tibet,” in Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order, 180, 192–96. 33. See Bau, The Foreign Relations of China, 23–24; Ta-tuan Ch'en, “Investiture of LiuCh'iu Kings ...
Mandate of Heaven: Marx and Mao in modern China
Nigel HarrisThe essential Marxist history of China under Mao.
The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in ...
Kate Merkel-Hess... and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 1990), 223, 226. 32. Guoqi Xu, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Cambridge, MA: ...
An Intellectual History of Modern China
Merle GoldmanThis book is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual history.
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Frank DikötterFocusing on the discourse of race in modern China, this study looks at the emergence of racial stereotypes in the 19th century, the gradual formation of a racial discourse at the turn of the century and the emergence, institutionalization ...
Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader
PreviewWhile the territory of China has substantially expanded over time, the idea of a cultural core area rst located in the Wei River Valley, a tributary of the Yellow River, and later ... 8. Cultural China: e Periphery as the Center Wei-ming Tu.
The Gradual Revolution: China's Economic Reform Movement
Hui WangAs a result, this book should have appeal quite beyond undergraduate and graduate courses in modern China, and should extend to those political scientists and sociologists who take seriously fundamental themes of development.
China off center: mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
Susan Debra BlumDIANE DORFMAN 17 The Spirits of Reform The Power of Belief in Northern China Like Eric Karchmer, the anthropologist Diane Dorfman is interested in looking at the role of beliefs about rationality, modernization, and power in the ...
Balkan Currents: Studies in the History, Culture and Society ...
Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek StudiesOrganized and chaired by Lawrence Tritle, the conference was co-hosted by the LMU Department of History and the University's Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies. Participation in the conference was international, including ...
Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China
Arabinda Acharya... edited by Leif Manger. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. . "Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community." In China off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom, edited by Susan Debra Blum and Lionel M. Jensen.
Modern China: Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present
Bruce A. EllemanThis is not an attempt to understand China in its own terms, but in comparison to the West so as to bridge the cultural divide. Second, this book emphasizes the tragic role of warfare in Chinese history.
China 88: The Real China and How to Deal with It
Andrew DeliosChina 88 serves as a quick, handy guide for newcomers to China -- with a particular focus on travel and business culture.
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China
PreviewSusan Naquin The modern city of Peking sits on the northwest edge of the North China plain. This area, though long inhabited, was at the far frontiers of the Chinese empire for many centuries; indeed, it was as the southern foothold for ...
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