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| 1. |  | Title: Seeing through Zen: encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism Author: McRae, John R 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Religion | China | Buddhism Publisher's Description: The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China  Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | China | Ethnic Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The moon and the zither: the story of the western wing Author: Wang, Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | China | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play ha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Heritage of China: contemporary perspectives on Chinese civilization Author: Ropp, Paul S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Voices of the song lyric in China/ Author: Yu, Pauline 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | China Publisher's Description: This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric ( tz'u ) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Dao de jing: the book of the way Author: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | China | Asian History | Asian Literature | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Medieval Chinese society and the local "community" Author: Tanigawa, Michio 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Architecture | China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Ordering the world: approaches to state and society in Sung Dynasty China Author: Hymes, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects Author: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | China Publisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | Title: Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya Published: University of California Press, 1974 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Death ritual in late imperial and modern China Author: Watson, James L Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphy Author: Kraus, Richard Curt Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | China | Art Publisher's Description: Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship betw . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Early Daoist scriptures Author: Bokenkamp, Stephen R 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | China | Classical Literature and Language | Taoism Publisher's Description: For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China Publisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The Manchurian myth: nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China Author: Mitter, Rana 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Japan Publisher's Description: A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more] Similar Items |