UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revolution and history: the origins of Marxist historiography in China, 1919-1937 Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist his . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Classicism, politics, and kinship: the Chʿang-chou school of new text Confucianism in late imperial China Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Scholars have generally agreed that the story of New Text Confucianism in late imperial China centers on K'ang Yu-wei and the late nineteenth-century political reforms he took credit for after fleeing China in 1898. In this important new book, Benjamin Elman explores the roots of New Text ideas and . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest village Author: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History \| China \| Social Science Publisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| China \| Popular Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Politics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Anthropology \| Labor Studies \| Demography \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| China Publisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiry Author: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Politics \| China \| American Studies \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 Author: Brook, Timothy 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The consumer revolution in urban China Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| China \| Urban Studies \| Consumerism Publisher's Description: After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinations Author: Gold, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that su . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacy Author: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| China \| International Relations Publisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Art and artists of twentieth-century China Author: Sullivan, Michael 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| China Publisher's Description: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society: a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo ; with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng Author: Fei, Xiaotong Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contr . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Similar Items