U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES (Imprint)

Center for Chinese Studies

Since 1961, the Center for Chinese Studies has been a world-renowned center with scholars studying both traditional and contemporary China. Currently, the Center has more than 50 books in print. The Center for Chinese Studies is part of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) Publications
1080 S. University Ave., Suite 3668
Ann Arbor 48109-1106
Phone: 734-764-6308
Fax: 734-764-5540
Email: chinese.studies@umich.edu 

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Labor and the Chinese Revolution

Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948

By S. Bernard Thomas & S. Bernard Thomas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A definitive chronological study of labor’s role in the revolution, drawing upon a wide range of Chinese and Western sources

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

The Chinese Garden as Lyric Enclave

A Generic Study of <em>The Story of the Stone</em>

By Chi Xiao
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exploration of what has been called China’s greatest novel, highlighting the roles of the garden, both fictional and real, to dramatize the cultural crisis of the literati in the late imperial period

Salt and State

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

By Cecilia Chien
Subjects: History, 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

Banner Legacy

The Rise of the Fengtian Local Elite at the End of the Qing

By Yoshiki Enatsu
Subjects: History, Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Sheds new light on the history of a central institution of the Qing dynasty and the figures who moved in it

China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations

Edited by Martin Whyte
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, History, Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

New research dispels conventional wisdom regarding the effect of social upheaval on traditional family patterns

The Dianshizhai Pictorial

Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898

By Xiaoqing Ye
Subjects: History, 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

Study Guide to China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future

By Thomas Buoye
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian History, Political Science

Defining Modernity

Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920–1970

Edited by Terry Bodenhorn
Subjects: History, Asian History, Political Science, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Employs a close analysis of cultural, ideational, and symbolic practices in a reappraisal of Guomindang history

A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming

By Dale Johnson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Reference, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The first aid of its kind in a Western language to reading a notoriously difficult body of dramatic works from 1200 to 1600 CE

Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints

Selections from the Muban Foundation Collection

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explores the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular Chinese woodblock prints

Exiles at Home

Stories by Ch’en Ying-chen

By Lucien Miller & Ying-chen Ch'en
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Nine stories imbued with the unique empathy and aesthetic strength of their author, an intellectual godfather to many contemporary Chinese writers in Taiwan and around the world

Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History

By Timothy Brook
Subjects: History, Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An essential bibliographical tool for researchers of Chinese social, cultural, and religious history.

Shih-shuo Hsin-yü

A New Account of Tales of the World

By Richard Mather
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A collection of anecdotes, conversations, and remarks concerning historic personalities of 150 to 420 A.D. China.

China

Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future

Edited by Thomas Buoye, Kirk Denton, and Bruce Dickson
By Barry Naughton
Subjects: Asian Studies, China

A comprehensive textbook on contemporary China combining original essays by leading experts with excerpts from primary sources, the latest scholarship, Chinese literature, and Western media reports

Screening China

Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

By Yingjin Zhang
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Pushes back against the Western critical appetite for ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, narrating how Chinese filmmakers increasingly escape Western demands and screen China’s many facets

The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence

India and Indochina

By Allen S. Whiting
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

An international relations classic that reveals the nature of Chinese foreign policy in the late Maoist years

Pan Chao

Foremost Woman Scholar of China

By Dennis Swann, Nancy Lee Swann, and Susan Mann
Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

A pioneering study of the life and work of a Chinese woman scholar of the Eastern Han period

The Concept of Man in Early China

By Donald J. Munro
Subjects: Philosophy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

A staple in the study of early Chinese philosophy and civilization

Christianity in Rural China

Conflict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900

By Alan Sweeten
Subjects: Religion, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Revises earlier accounts of conflict between Christians and the Chinese state, showing through archival evidence that nonreligious problems were more often the source of intergroup conflict in Jiangxi in the late Qing dynasty

Getting Around in Chinese

Chinese Skits for Beginners

By Hilda Tao
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China

Promotes practical use of language skills in everyday settings

Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By Thomas Gottschang & Diana Lary
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Presents both statistical analysis and the perspectives of individual migrants and their families on one of the largest migrations in the world

The Concept of Man in Contemporary China

By Donald J. Munro
Subjects: Philosophy, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Considers the connections between politics, education, and distinctly Chinese theories of mind

Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement

Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China

By Leslie Chen
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A political biography of an early twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary and federalist written by his son

The World around the Chinese Artist

Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting

By Richard Edwards
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Traces the relationship between the self and landscape across three masters of Chinese painting

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