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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Chinese families in the post-Mao era Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth cen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Philosophy | China | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | Title: Golden inches: the China memoir of Grace Service Author: Service, Grace 1879-1954 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Christianity | Asian History | China Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: High culture fever: politics, aesthetics, and ideology in Deng's China Author: Wang, Jing 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian Literature | Asian History | Politics | China Publisher's Description: Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Medieval Chinese society and the local "community" Author: Tanigawa, Michio 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items |