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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| Women's Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present Author: Arkush, R. David 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| United States History \| China \| American Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 year . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Christianity \| China Publisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolution Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Politics Publisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: For documentary: twelve essays Author: Vaughan, Dai Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Anthropology \| Photography \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: These essays, which span twenty-five years of writing and a lifetime of experience, offer fresh and challenging insights into documentary. Dai Vaughan, one of the most highly regarded documentary editors to have worked in Britain in recent decades, makes his starting point plain: "Most of us would f . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Law Publisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Translating property: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 Author: Montoya, María E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Law \| Latino Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's continuous revolution: the post-liberation epoch, 1949-1981 Author: Dittmer, Lowell Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cultural curiosity: thirteen stories about the search for Chinese roots Author: Khu, Josephine M.T 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology \| Social Science \| Asian American Studies \| China Publisher's Description: This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subseq . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti' . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmology Author: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| China \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Asian Studies \| China Publisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The political logic of economic reform in China Author: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world Author: Goldstone, Jack A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Political Theory \| European History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhel . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The attic: memoir of a Chinese landlord's son Author: Cao, Guanlong 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literature in Translation \| China \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramp . . . [more] Similar Items