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  • The Suicide of Miss Xi

    Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic

    de Bryna Goodman ...
    A suicide scandal in Shanghai reveals the social fault lines of democratic visions in China’s troubled Republic in the early 1920s.On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in the Shanghai newspaper office where she worked. Although her death occurred outside of Chinese jurisdiction, her US-educated employer, Tang Jiezhi, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities and put on trial ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Cultural History of Money and Credit

    A Global Perspective

    de Enrico Beltramini, Bryna Goodman, David Hochfelder, Allan Lumba, Mônica Martins, Nicole Mottier, Admire Mseba, Samuel Ostroff, Mischa Suter ...
    In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present original research into the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a global ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Gender in Motion

    Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

    Edición de Bryna Goodman, Wendy Larson ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China.While several studies have investigated gender or labor in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Twentieth Century Colonialism and China

    Localities, the everyday, and the world

    Edición de Bryna Goodman, David Goodman ...
    Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization.This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    de Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Understanding China

    A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

    de John Bryan Starr ...
    "A clearheaded, multidimensional tour of China's political, economic, and social landscapes." — Current History"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations. . . . An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." — The New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a decade, John Bryan Starr's ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • After Empire

    The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924

    de Peter Zarrow ...
    From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Two Systems, Two Countries

    A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong

    de Kevin Carrico ...
    As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why.Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Protest with Chinese Characteristics

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

    de Ho-fung Hung ...
    The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Guilty of Indigence

    The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

    de Janet Y. Chen ...
    In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." ... Leer más

    $56.89 USD

  • Collaborative Colonial Power

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era, colonial power has been extensively shared between colonizers and the Chinese who chose to work with them. This exploration of the form of colonial power ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Memories of the Future

    National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan

    de Stephane Corcuff ...
    The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. It addresses questions central to the looming international issue of Taiwan/China. Part one considers the historical events that help to explain the emergence and development of a separatist, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD