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Cultural Studies

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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government

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

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

The Global White Snake

By Liang Luo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts

The <em>Dianshizhai Pictorial</em>

Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898

By Xiaoqing Ye
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings to life the visual culture of the “nightless city,” late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions

The Appearing Demos

Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement

By Laikwan Pang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Cultural Studies

Facilitating vigorous dialogue between Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the political theories of Hannah Arendt, The Appearing Demos theorizes a city-based democratic project that allows the city to coexist and share power with state sovereignty.

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements
 

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements
 

Transforming Gender and Emotion

The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

By Sookja Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Korea, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Illuminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea

Salt and State

An Annotated Translation of the <em>Songshi</em> Salt Monopoly Treatise

By Cecilia Chien
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The role salt played in the politics of Song China, as told through a unique contemporary narrative, translated into English for the first time

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