China

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Learning to Love

Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya E Pritzker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China

Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance

Reveals the deep entanglement of technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance

Reveals the deep entanglement of technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China

Disorienting Politics

Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

By Fan Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, American Studies

Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

China as Number One?

The Emerging Values of a Rising Power

By Yang Zhong & Ronald F. Inglehart
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

Examining the contemporary rise in China’s political, economic, and military power through the opinions of its citizens

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries

The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China

By Kelan Lu
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China, Political Theory

Explores the conditional effect of fiscal decentralization on FDI inflows at county level in China and explores whether FDI sourced from adversarial states is more dependent upon local government fiscal autonomy than those sourced from the non-adversarial states

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Disruptions as Opportunities

Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism

By Taiyi Sun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena

Rejuvenating Communism

Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China

By Jérôme Doyon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese party-state attracts young officials to renew its elite

Power of Freedom

Hu Shih's Political Writings

Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations
Series: China Understandings Today

Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century

Power of Freedom

Hu Shih’s Political Writings

Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations
Series: China Understandings Today

Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century

Righteous Revolutionaries

Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State

By Jeffrey A. Javed
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political History, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

A reexamination of one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history

Legends of the Warring States

Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-kuo Ts'e

By J. Crump
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Lively accounts of political intrigue and other lore from early China.

“A Great Wall”

A Learning Guide

Second Edition

By Jing-heng Ma
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Film Guides for Students of Chinese

A student guide for the critically acclaimed 1986 film A Great Wall

Peony Pavilion Onstage

Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama

By Catherine Swatek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

One of the few full-length English-language studies of Chinese drama and the only one to focus on the pivotal Kun opera Peony Pavilion

Song-Poems from Xanadu

By J. Crump
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Translated poems providing a survey of ch’ü poetry

Televising Chineseness

Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity

By Geng Song
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio
Series: China Understandings Today

Offers new understandings of gender construction and nation-building through the lens of recent Chinese television programs.

Pride, Not Prejudice

National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

By Eunbin Chung
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea, International Relations

Nationalism as a path to international peace

Selected Plays of Stan Lai

The Complete Set

By Stan Lai
Edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

Selected Plays of Stan Lai

Volume 1: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and Other Plays

By Stan Lai
Edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

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