Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies (Series)

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Radicalism and Its Demise

The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924–1931

By Bradley Geisert
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Challenges the conventional image of the Chinese Nationalists as defenders of the status quo in the late 1920s, chronicling the rise and fall of radicals within the party during the same decade

Sui-Tang Chang’an

A Study in the Urban History of Late Medieval China

By Victor Xiong
Subjects: History, Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A vivid history of medieval China’s most cultivated metropolis

God of the Dao

Lord Lao in History and Myth

By Livia Kohn
Subjects: Religion, History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Illuminates the story of Lord Lao through historical analysis and mythological narrative to show its influence on traditional Chinese religion

Legends of the Warring States

Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-kuo Ts'e

By J. Crump
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Lively accounts of political intrigue and other lore from early China.

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

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

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Appropriation and Representation

Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story

By Shuhui Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

How a member of the late Ming literati class creatively manipulated popular and literati culture to elevate an underrated literary genre

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

Revised Edition

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

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Reform and Revolution in China

The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei

By Joseph Esherick
Subjects: History, African American History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explains how reforms in the late Qing dynasty indirectly amplified the social forces that brought about the Revolution of 1911

Peking Politics, 1918–1923

Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism

By Andrew Nathan
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The story of how politicians who believed in constitutionalism were driven to destroy it by the short-term tactical requirements of their chosen political game

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