Chinese History

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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

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 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

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

Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

Edited by Charles A. Laughlin & Li Guo
Subjects: History, Chinese History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Journalism, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

An exploration of the ethico-aesthetic genre in the Sinophone world

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

The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama

By Peng Xu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Theater and Performance

Tracing the forgotten impact of courtesans in Chinese theater

Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre

Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s–1940s

By Man He
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History

First comprehensive English-language exploration of huaju during its formative decades, delivered from the perspective of the backstage

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

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

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

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

Righteous Revolutionaries

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

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

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

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

Power over Property

The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China

By Matthew Noellert
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science
Series: China Understandings Today

Provides an alternative to both capitalist and communist conceptions of modern historical development based on relations to property

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
 

The Rise of the Chinese Empire

Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C.-A.D. 8

By Chun-shu Chang
Subjects: History, Chinese History

A comprehensive reconstruction of ancient and early Imperial Chinese history based on literary and archaeological texts, and over 60,000 Han-time documents on bamboo, wood, and silk

The Rise of the Chinese Empire

Frontier, Immigration, and Empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D.157

By Chun-shu Chang
Subjects: History, Chinese History

A comprehensive reconstruction of ancient and early Imperial Chinese history based on literary and archaeological texts, and over 60,000 Han-time documents on bamboo, wood, and silk

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