Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen

Yijiang Ding

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Is China moving toward a liberal democracy? How does Western engagement with China contribute to this enormous cultural shift? While still one of the ... Lees meer

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

Xiaoping Cong

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• During the educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China, Chinese teacher's schools played a critical... Lees meer

Frontier Fieldwork

Andres Rodriguez

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• How early-twentieth-century fieldwork put the Sino-Tibetan borderlands at the center of China's nation-making process. The center may hold, but border... Lees meer

Blue Skies Over Wuhan

Yun Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Explores the history of the emergence of environmental protections in China through the case study of Wuhan in the 1970's. Balancing the environmental... Lees meer

A Frontier Made Lawless

Joseph Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu peoples clashed ... Lees meer

Chiang Kai-Shek's Critical Years, 1935-50

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Analyzes an enigmatic figure at the peak of his influence in China, showing how his improvisational approach to political problems brought remarkable ... Lees meer

Gutenberg in Shanghai

Christopher A Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving tra... Lees meer

Saving the Nation Through Culture

Jie Gao

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought,... Lees meer

Beyond the Amur

Victor Zatsepine

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russi... Lees meer

Not Just a Man's War

Yihong Pan

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Brings the overlooked experiences of Chinese women during the War of Resistance into the light. In 1931, Japan began a brutal occupation of Manchuria,... Lees meer

The Cult of Happiness

James A Flath

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• History and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally "New Year pictures." James Flath... Lees meer

The Pragmatic Dragon

Eric Hyer

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• China shares borders and asserts vast maritime claims with over a dozen countries, and it has had boundary disputes with nearly all of them. Yet in th... Lees meer

The Pragmatic Dragon

Eric Hyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• China shares borders and asserts vast maritime claims with over a dozen countries, and it has had boundary disputes with nearly all of them. Yet in th... Lees meer

Beyond the Amur

Victor Zatsepine

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and imperial Russi... Lees meer

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

Xiaoping Cong

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• During the educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China, Chinese teacher's schools played a critical... Lees meer

Administering the Colonizer

Blaine R Chiasson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Harbin of the 1920s was viewed by Westerners as a world turned upside down. The Chinese government had taken over administration of the Russian-founde... Lees meer