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  • The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History

    Edited by Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan, Els van Dongen ...
    Series series Sage Handbooks of Modern China
    The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History offers an in-depth exploration of the evolution of historical narratives in China over the past century. Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this handbook provides both depth and breadth to our understanding of how Chinese leaders, intellectuals, and the public conceive of their place in the world. It examines the dramatic ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Global History in China

    by Xin Fan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores global history as an emerging field of scholarly studies in China today. Readers are invited to rethink the origin of global history in China and to examine its current state. Chinese scholarship is rooted in a warm appreciation of globalization in the age of Opening-up and Reform and presented as a trendy transnational intellectual movement at the opening of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • World History and National Identity in China

    The Twentieth Century

    by Xin Fan ...
    Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has persisted. Xin Fan examines the ways in which historians working on the world beyond China from within China have attempted ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Intelligent Robotics

    5th China Annual Conference, CIRAC 2024, Dalian, China, September 20–22, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Zengguang Hou, Xianping Fu, Qinghua Hu, Xin Fan, Xianhua Song, Zeguang Lu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book constitutes selected papers presented during the 5th China Annual Intelligent Robotics Conference, CIRAC 2024, held in Dalian, China, in September 2024.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Deep Learning Architecture; Low-Level Vision; Multi-modal learning; Pattern Recognition; ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edited by Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Nativism

    Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937

    by Maggie Clinton ...
    In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged from the charged social conditions that prevailed in the country's southern and coastal regions ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Debating Human Rights in China

    A Conceptual and Political History

    by Marina Svensson ...
    Tracing the concept of human rights in Chinese political discourse since the late Qing dynasty, this comprehensive history convincingly demonstrates that-contrary to conventional wisdom-there has been a vibrant debate on human rights throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on little-known sources, Marina Svensson argues that the concept of human rights was invoked by the Chinese people well ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Mao Cult

    Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution

    by Daniel Leese ...
    Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

    Chinese Socialism in Crisis

    by Yiching Wu ...
    Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government's grasp, and rebellion took on a life of its own. Turmoil became a reality in a way the Great Leader had not foreseen. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins recaptures ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • China Unbound

    Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

    by Paul A. Cohen ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Minjian

    The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals

    by Sebastian Veg ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD