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Writing Beijing

History and Knowledge of the Capital

By Naixi Feng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Intellectual History, Chinese History, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

The textual transformation of Beijing from a frontier outpost to the capital of China

The Pliant Public

Ideology and Public Opinion in China

By Jason Y. Wu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

Why a depolarized public strengthens the Communist Party today, but may undermine it tomorrow

Weapons of the People

The Culture and Politics of Guns in Modern China

By Lei Duan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science, Public Policy and Governance
Series: China Understandings Today

How gun control became a central tool of governance in China

By Liang Ge
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Fan Studies, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural ecology of the Chinese boys love genre

Leaving the Tomboy Behind

Sinophone Lesbian Subjectivities and Transnational Queer Media

By Carman K.M. Fung
Subjects: Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Turning to global LGBTQ+ media to explore selfhood and gender expressions

Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City

Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900–1930

By Qiliang He
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Reenvisioning early Chinese cinema and the urban experience

Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

The Great Separation

The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism

By Xiaohong Xu
Edited by Roi Livne, Robert S. Jansen, and Yang Zhang
Foreword by Ho-fung Hung
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: China Understandings Today

Upending the understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

China’s Date Debate

How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II

By Emily Matson
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

How the “date debate” rewrote Chinese history

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide

By Jen-yen Chen
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, China
Series: Musics in Motion

The sonic experiences and cultural diversity of the Catholic religion in Macau

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society

By Mujun Zhou
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese liberal intellectuals launched the civil society movement and how it later disintegrated

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

Planetarity from Below

Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora

By Emily Yu Zong
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, China, American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics