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1. |  | Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideologyAuthor: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | 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 | ChinaPublisher'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 | 4. |  | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender StudiesPublisher'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 | 5. |  | Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourseAuthor: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies | Sociology | Labor Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | | 8. |  | Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutionsAuthor: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Anthropology | China | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: The political logic of economic reform in ChinaAuthor: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher'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 | 10. |  | Title: Republican Beijing: the city and its historiesAuthor: Dong, Madeleine Yue 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong of . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: A golden state: mining and economic development in gold rush California Author: Rawls, James J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West | American Studies | Natural History | Geography | Californian and Western History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: California's storied Gold Rush triggered momentous changes not only for the state, but also for the nation and the world. The economic impact of that epoch-making event is the focus of the second volume of the California History Sesquicentennial Series. The chapter contributors offer a range of pers . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Chinese historical microdemographyAuthor: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | China | DemographyPublisher'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 | 14. |  | Title: Education and society in late imperial China, 1600-1900Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial ChinaAuthor: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | | 19. |  | Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | American Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more]Similar Items |
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