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| 1. |  | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century Author: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Blood road: the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary China Author: Schoppa, R. Keith 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi - revolutionary, landlord, polit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: China among equals: the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th-14th centuries Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Asian Studies | China Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | Title: A Chinese bestiary: strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = [Shan hai jing] Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Asian Literature | China | Folklore and Mythology | Asian History Publisher's Description: A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mounta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | Title: Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities: a reader Author: Brownell, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Chinese historical microdemography Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | China | Demography Publisher's Description: Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility, mortality, fa . . . [more] Similar Items |