Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies (Series)

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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.

“Proletarian Hegemony” in the Chinese Revolution and the Canton Commune of 1927

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

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

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

Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China

By Martin Singer
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Weighs the meaning of the Cultural Revolution for the young people who were its vanguard

Modern China, 1840–1972

An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids

By Andrew Nathan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Research aid for graduate students of modern China on how to find sources

Nineteenth-Century China

Five Imperialist Perspectives

Edited by Dilip Basu & Rhoads Murphey
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Collects contemporary perspectives of nineteenth-century China that exemplify British imperial knowledge, dreams, arguments, and enterprises

Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas

Edited by J. I. Crump, J. I. Crump, William P. Malm, and William P. Malm
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings scholars of China, Japan, music, and speech together to assess the practices, structures, and networks of influence of a distinctive art form

Between Two Plenums

China’s Intraleadership Conflict, 1959–1962

By Ellis Joffe
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting

By Robert Maeda
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A treatise and a history that shed light on theories and practices of painting in the imperial Academy and the literati in the late Northern Sung period

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

By Andrew Walder
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The Ming Dynasty

Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

By Charles Hucker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two Studies on Ming History

By Charles Hucker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A historical analysis of a famous military campaign in 1556, and a translation of a narrative account of a popular uprising in 1626

The Cultural Revolution

1967 in Review

By Michel Oksenberg, Carl Riskin, and Ezra F. Vogel
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Four papers showing the effects of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups, economy, foreign policy, and political factions in Communist China

An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Painting Catalogues and Related Texts

By Hin-cheung Lovell
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)

By Timoteus Pokora
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Reconstructs and translates a unique work of political criticism from an influential Confucian scholar-official

The Matrix of Lyric Transformation

Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry

By Zong-qi Cai & Zong-qi Cai
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Traces one the most important genres in early Chinese literature through a series of modes connoting varying social milieus, from folk to literati

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

The Economy of Communist China, 1949–1969

By Chu-yuan Cheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Review of the economic development, factors, trends, and changes of Communist China

The Red Spears, 1916–1949

By Hsuan-chih Tai & Hsuan-chih Tai
Translated by Ronald Suleski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

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

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

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

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

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