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81. |  | 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 | ChinaPublisher'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 | 82. |  | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 83. |  | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest ChinaAuthor: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic StudiesPublisher'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 | 84. |  | Title: The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung periodAuthor: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this t . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. |  | 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 LiteraturePublisher'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 | 86. |  | Title: Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialismAuthor: Rofel, Lisa 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. |  | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communismAuthor: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | HistoryPublisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. |  | Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920sAuthor: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. |  | Title: Dao de jing: the book of the wayAuthor: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | China | Asian History | Asian Literature | PhilosophyPublisher'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 | 90. |  | Title: Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities: a readerAuthor: Brownell, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | ChinaPublisher'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 | 91. |  | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and BusinessPublisher'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 | 92. |  | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher'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 | 93. |  | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiryAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 94. |  | 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 LiteraturePublisher'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 | 95. |  | | 96. |  | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmologyAuthor: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher'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 | 97. |  | Title: Huang Di nei jing su wen: nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wenAuthor: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich) 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | History of MedicinePublisher's Description: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and . . . [more]Similar Items | 98. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 99. |  | Title: Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and JapanAuthor: Ko, Dorothy 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | East Asia Other | Japan | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canoni . . . [more]Similar Items | 100. |  | Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literatureAuthor: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Comparative Literature | Poetry | Anthropology | Asian Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more]Similar Items |
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