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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

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

The Lord, the Slave, and the Tailor’s Son

Andrea Casali and Identity Theft in Renaissance Italy

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, European History

Settling the uncertainty of “a certain man”

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

The Roots of Cooperation

Constructing Interstate Alliances in Ancient Greece

By Nicholas Cross
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History

How words, performative acts, and symbolic representations shaped alliances, shared identities, and collective meanings among Greek city-states

Excavations at San Martín Tilcajete

Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Volume II

By Charles S. Spencer & Elsa M. Redmond
Subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Memoirs

Excavations at San Martín Tilcajete

Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Volume I

By Charles S. Spencer & Elsa M. Redmond
Subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Memoirs

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

Black Power Praxis

Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

By Matt Birkhold
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History, Cultural Studies, Activism

A close look at how social movements rise and fall

Inner Worlds

Interiority and Capitalist Modernity in Japan

By Richard M Reitan
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Intellectual History, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the connections among interiority, capitalism, and fascism in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Japan

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2

By Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Pablo Alvarez, and Julia Miller
Subjects: History, European History, Reference, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

Cataloging newly discovered manuscripts and fragments in one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts in North America

Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace's Odes

The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration

By Kenneth Draper
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, History, European History

Sheds new light on Horace's metapoetics, uncovering patterns in the metaphors of the Odes

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

Out of Line

Reading and Writing Protest in West Germany, 1968

By Peter Schweppe
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How the politics of print transformed protest in West Germany's Global Sixties

Deprived of Sense and Intellect

Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe

By Leigh Ann Craig
Subjects: History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Revealing how medieval communities distinguished insanity and possession

Tacitus and the Incomplete

Edited by Panayiotis Christoforou & Bram L.H. ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reconstructions of lost episodes, narratives, and books in Tacitus' Histories and Annals

Four Years in Izumi

Village Japan in the Early Sixteenth Century

By Lee Butler
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Medieval and Early Modern History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An unparalleled view of village society in Japan’s tumultuous Warring States period

We Rode the Rhythms as One

On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight

Edited by Norman Minnick
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American History
Series: Under Discussion

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word