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Material Contradictions in Mao

Material Contradictions in Mao's China

By Jennifer Altehenger, Denise Y. Ho

The growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period (1949–1976)—rightly framed as a time of scarcity—initially appears to...

ISBN: 9780295750859

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The Rise of West Lake

The Rise of West Lake

A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty

By Xiaolin Duan

Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship...

ISBN: 9780295747101

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Great Qing

Great Qing

Painting in China, 1644-1911

By Claudia Brown

Addressing the previous lack of a comprehensive English-language study of Qing painting, art historian Claudia Brown’s account ranges from the tumultuous Ming–Qing transition to the end of imperial rule. In response to omissions in previous...

ISBN: 9780295747231

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State Power in China, 900-1325

State Power in China, 900-1325

By Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Paul Jakov Smith

This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions...

ISBN: 9780295744292

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On Cold Mountain

On Cold Mountain

A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems

By Paul Rouzer

In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in...

ISBN: 9780295742687

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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China

Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China

Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State

By Mark P. McNicholas

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings...

ISBN: 9780295742700

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Puer Tea

Puer Tea

Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

By Jinghong Zhang

Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the...

ISBN: 9780295993232

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The Interweaving of Rituals

The Interweaving of Rituals

Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe

By Nicolas Standaert

The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting...

ISBN: 9780295988238

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The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

By Yingcong Dai

During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues...

ISBN: 9780295989525

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Scenic Spots

Scenic Spots

Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority

By Pal Nyiri

Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People’s Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is...

ISBN: 9780295987613

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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

By Thomas H. Reilly

Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the...

ISBN: 9780295993720

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The Story of Han Xiangzi

The Story of Han Xiangzi

The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

By Yang Erzeng. Translated by Philip Clart

In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle—Han Yu, a real historical figure—to...

ISBN: 9780295987255

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Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China

Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China

By Antje Richter

Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award

This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE)...

ISBN: 9780295992785

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Lijiang Stories

Lijiang Stories

Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

By Emily Chao. Foreword by Stevan Harrell

Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the...

ISBN: 9780295992235

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Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China

Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China

Transforming the Inner Chambers

By Xiaorong Li

This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were...

ISBN: 9780295992297

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Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea

The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China

By Fan Chengda. Translated by James M. Hargett

Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a high-ranking Chinese government official in Guangxi, an experienced traveler, a keen observer, and a gifted writer. His observations on a wide range of subjects are always interesting and revealing, and...

ISBN: 9780295990798

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Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall

Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall

Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend

By Wilt L. Idema

Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early...

ISBN: 9780295987842

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Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture

Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture

The Record of a Dusty Table

By Xiaofei Tian

Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award

As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's...

ISBN: 9780295991344

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Black Tigers

Black Tigers

A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings

By Kenneth Starr

Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These...

ISBN: 9780295988115

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Verse Going Viral

Verse Going Viral

China's New Media Scenes

By Heather Inwood

Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel...

ISBN: 9780295993706

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