China category: 3065 books
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze...
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China
Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth...
by Andrew Forbes, David Henley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The antique Silk Road that connected the Chinese and Mediterranean Worlds for more than a millennium, facilitating the exchange of both goods and cultures, is widely known and celebrated. Less familiar is its more southerly equivalent, the ‘Ancient Tea-Horse Road’ that once linked the lush gardens...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet...
The Monkey and the Dragon
a True Story About Friendship, Music, Politics & Liife on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China like nothing you've ever read.
This is a book about friendship, music, politics and life on the edge. Linda Jaivin first met Taiwan pop star Hou Dejian in 1981 when she was a journalist in Hong Kong, and his...
by Edward Harper Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fantastically rich resource about the history of Ancient China.
by Tracy Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
On a self-planned or guided tour of the People’s Republic of China, one will run up against the need to visit Hangzhou. Read any guidebook. Ask any Chinese person. Undisputedly, Hangzhou, known for its extravagant natural beauty and thousands of years of tea and silk culture, is simply the most...
Beyond Borders
Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and...
The Art of Resistance
Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters�Ding Cong (1916�2009), Feng Zikai (1898�1975), Li Keran (1907�89), Li Kuchan (1898�1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897�1971), and Shi Lu (1919�82)�during China�s Cultural Revolution (1966�1976), a time when...
Is the East Still Red?
Socialism and the Market in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is...
The Rise of Tea Culture in China
The Invention of the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual,...
Modern China’s Network Revolution
Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch chambers had been established throughout China....
Rise and Decline and Rise of China
Searching for an Organising Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced...
by Chien-peng Chung
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
This is a groundbreaking analysis of China's territorial disputes, exploring the successes and failures of negotiations that have taken place between its three neighbours, namely India, Japan and Russia. By using Roberts Putnam's two level game framework, Chung relates the outcome of these disputes to the actions of domestic nationalist groups who