China category: 3065 books
The Art of Being Governed
Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families...
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions...
New Masters, New Servants
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their...
Gender and Work in Urban China
Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous...
Cities Surround The Countryside
Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin...
Protest with Chinese Characteristics
Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
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 Hung...
by Philippe E.
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Ever asked yourself after walking in Shanghai if this was the real China ? If this is it?Well, here you go with an Insider´s view from China !A book written by an expert on the subject. He has felt it deeply and personally, and is still recovering.He wants you to understand why in China some...
The People’S Republic of China
Beyond Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Luxuriate in five star hotels and walk down glamorous boulevards in huge cities where fashionably dressed citizens chase the yuan and where glitzy high rise projects dominate the skyline, as the author, Lin Sartori, shares the stories and photographs of her trip to The People's Republic of China....
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The emerging powerhouse of our times, China is a fascinating and complex country, taking in ultra-modern cities, dramatically varied scenery and ancient cultural treasures. This new edition of Insight Guide China is a comprehensive full-colour travel guide to this enigmatic destination, highlighting...
Leisure and Power in Urban China
Everyday life in a Chinese city
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a local...
by Edwin John Dingle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book, first published in 1911, is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Along the...
Little Emperors and Material Girls
Sex and Youth in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. Everybody knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place - all in the bars, cafes and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Welcome to this new China. Writer and journalist Jemimah...
by Yingjie Guo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the state's...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Chinese government is one of the most important actors in international affairs today. To thoroughly understand how the People’s Republic of China has grown in power requires a careful analysis of its political system. To what extent can China’s economic achievements be attributed to the country’s...