Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Bonnie S McDougall

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 2
• The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949. Extending beyo... Lees meer

Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 15
• Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing ... Lees meer

The Origins of Chinese Civilization

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China
• The seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, bota... Lees meer

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 26
• Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarl... Lees meer

Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 5
• One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been marked ... Lees meer

Re-Drawing Boundaries

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 25
• Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature o... Lees meer

Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 8
• During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing ... Lees meer

Becoming Chinese

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 23
• This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading r... Lees meer

Empire at the Margins

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 28
• Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional... Lees meer

Neo-Confucian Education

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 22
• After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype un... Lees meer

Chinese Historical Microdemography

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 20
• Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genea... Lees meer

Chinese History in Economic Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 13
• This volume marks a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. It arose from a realization that the economic history of China--as opposed... Lees meer

Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 11
• This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists pre... Lees meer

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 14
• Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' inte... Lees meer

Neo-Confucian Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Ordering the World

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 16
• The Sung Dynasty (960-1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, ... Lees meer

Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 17
• How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization o... Lees meer

Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 19
• This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance... Lees meer

Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 27
• Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. Th... Lees meer

The Origins of Chinese Civilization

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China
• The seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, bota... Lees meer

Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on China | nr. 12
• Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten emine... Lees meer