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Learning to rule
Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for divergent visions of how to restabilize the country. Through the lens of the education of young emperors, Learning to Rule develops a new understandin...
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Leprosy in china
Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political ...
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Let there be light
Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company and its visionary founder jumpstarted the British colony’s postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change.
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Lhasa
There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new no...
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Lineages of the literary
In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Nicole Willock reveals how they negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations...
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Literary information in china
“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital age. Leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, fro...
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Literature and history in the shi ji of sima qian
An excellent introduction to Sima Qian’s masterpiece, Shi Ji.
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Little rice
Can the world’s biggest economy actually innovate? Clay Shirky explores China at a crossroads. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means “little rice” in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becomin...
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Living karma
Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Ch...
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Love and liberation
Reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life
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Love letters from golok
Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic dimensions of t...
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Luxuriant gems of the spring and autumn
A major resource expanding the study of early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, the first complete English-language translation of the Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu fanlu), one of the key texts of early Confucianism
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Madame chiang kai-shek
Now in paperback, Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the first biography of one of history’s most intriguing and controversial political figures. Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China’s long and violent civil war. She passionately argued agai...
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Made in censorship
Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply fo...
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Made in hong kong
Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism and a...
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Making it count
A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The gove...
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Manchu princess, japanese spy
A sensational, myth-busting biography of a woman who thrived and fell upon the turmoil of her era.
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Maoism and the chinese revolution
The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do the...
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Marketing and social structure in rural china
This three-part study, originally published in consecutive issues of the Journal of Asian Studies, has become a classic in the field of Asian studies and has been used in classrooms for over 50 years.
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Markets over mao
China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese ...
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Media in china, china in the media
Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come into being. This volume, the first on this to...
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Memories of life in lhasa under chinese rule
Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and lab...
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Memory, violence, queues
Memory, Violence Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China takes a new look at the writer whose name is synonymous with the radical newness of modern Chinese literature. It identifies key moments in Lu Xun’s creative development and places them in the context of the turbulent era in which China became a re...
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Minjian
Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people—intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy instit...
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Modeling peace
Among the ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. Modeling Peace interprets Western Han royal burial as a political ideology by closely reading the architecture and funerary content of this site and situating ...
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Modern chinese history
Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. It can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contempor...
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Mulberry and peach
This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two women—Mulberry and Peach—who are really one. Mulberry is a young woman who has fled the turmoil of postwar China to settle in the United States. Unable to forget the terrors she has witnessed or resolve the ...
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Muslim transnationalism in modern china
Hale Eroğlu explores how a group of key Hui figures navigated the challenges of the early twentieth century, offering a transnational intellectual history of Chinese Muslim thought.
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Negotiating religion in modern china
Shuk-wah Poon traces the history of the Chinese state's relationship with religion from 1900 to 1937. The revolutionary regime failed condemned religious practice in the early twentieth century, suppressing "superstitious" belief in favor of a secular, more enlightened society. Drawing on newspap...
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New hong kong cinema
Advocates the model of ‘Cinema of Transitions’ to study Hong Kong-related, Chinese-language films that are concerned with Hong Kong’s sovereignty transfer. Intervenes in the studies of Hong Kong cinema from a combined perspective of Diaspora and East Asian Studies, rather than situating ...
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New year celebrations in central china in late imperial times
Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society, crafting a new pi...
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Night train to turkistan
“From the beginning, it was a silly idea. This, of course, I liked.” So begins Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens’s irreverent, irresistible Chinese travel tale. In the late fall of 1986, Stevens, a young political consultant and writer, invited three friends to join him on an unlikely 5,0...
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Nine continents
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Xiaolu Guo's memoir documents her trajectory from a small fishing village in rural China to life in the West as a fearless writer and filmmaker.
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No constraints
A sweeping account of China’s global strategy from Mao to Xi, revealing its effort to court strategic partners, outmaneuver rivals, and reshape the global order on its own termsBeijing wants global influence without global entanglements. That ambition is not new—it has been decades in the making....
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On the edge
On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.
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Only daughters
An innovative examination of how talent, virtue and gendered expectations are negotiated in post-reform ChinaUnder China’s one-child policy, a generation of only daughters in the 1980s grew up with unprecedented access to university education and careers in high-paying fields. Often dubbed “littl...
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Orphans of the times
This is a powerful collection of essays pulls back the curtain on a decade often seen as a void between Mao’s rigid control and the explosion of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms.
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Overt and covert treasures
This is the first volume to present a comprehensive collection of sources on Chinese women's history. The anthology explores overt and covert information on Chinese women across a vast number of textual and non-textual materials, as well as conventional and unconventional sources. Some chapters r...
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Pirates and publishers
A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time ...
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Plato goes to china
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today’s China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are...
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Policy making in china
The description for this book, Policy Making in China, will be forthcoming.
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Politics and cultural nativism in 1970s taiwan
In recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt.
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Portraits of chinese women in revolution
Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 piecesall out of print and most unavailable even in public librariesare based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton comm...
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Post-communist sinology in transformation
Self-knowledge is the foundation of sinology. Becoming a sinologist involves engaging in multi-sited processes that deconstruct stereotypical notions of China's rise in the 21st century. The sinologists in this edited volume have actively participated in studies shaped by their specific historica...
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Prescriptions for virtuosity
Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their cl...
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Prophets unarmed
Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.
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Protest with chinese characteristics
The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung H...
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Quelling the demons' revolt
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is centered on the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 1047–48, warning of the vulnerability of a world plagued by dem...
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