China Understandings Today (Series)

A publication series dedicated to the study of 20th and 21st century China, China Understandings Today (CUT) seeks to present the latest and most innovative scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities to the academic community as well as the general public. China Understandings Today invites publication proposals from scholars engaged in the study of China from historical, comparative, and/or multi-disciplinary perspectives. The series editors are committed to promoting interdisciplinary studies and to encouraging new forms of scholarship; the series is also interested in quality translations of select scholarship in Chinese.

The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies provides support for manuscript workshops for books in the China Understandings Today series as well as an open access publication subvention.

Series Editors
Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
Emily Wilcox, William & Mary

Submissions
Please send inquiries to ChinaSeriesEditors@umich.edu.

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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

The Pliant Public

Ideology and Public Opinion in China

By Jason Y. Wu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

Why a depolarized public strengthens the Communist Party today, but may undermine it tomorrow

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

Ambivalent Desires

Affect and Boys Love in China

By Liang Ge
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Fan Studies, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural ecology of the Chinese boys love genre

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

Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

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

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

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

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society

By Mujun Zhou
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese liberal intellectuals launched the civil society movement and how it later disintegrated

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

Gendered Memories

An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs

By Xian Wang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: China Understandings Today

An imaginary museum of the legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs

Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

By Kwai-Cheung Lo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A comprehensive study of China’s ethnic minority cinema from the Republican Era to the present

Engineering Stability

Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities

By Xiaojun Yan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science
Series: China Understandings Today

How can a state reinvent itself to survive?

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

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, 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
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

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
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

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

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