China category: 3065 books
Taiwan's Statesman
Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A well-known observer of Taiwan and Asian history and culture provides an insightful biography of Lee Teng Hui, the pro-democracy statesman and former president of the Republic of China. As head of the Taiwanese government from 1988 to 2000, Lee managed, without violence or major civil unrest, to reform...
Gender and Chinese History
Transformative Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Exploring the long history of cultural exchange between 'the Roof of the World' and 'the Middle Kingdom,' Buddhism Between Tibet and China features a collection of noteworthy essays that probe the nature of their relationship, spanning from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE) to the present day. Annotated...
A Galaxy of Immortal Women
The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
ForeWord Reviews Mother’s Day Staff Pick: Books Mom Will Love”
A valuable historical reference guide.” -Publishers Weekly
This is a very ambitious and timely book, a book that many historians, literary theorists and story tellers who care about China and its Other Half...
Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes
Reeducation, Resistance, and the People
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most...
Joy and Sorrow – Songs of Ancient China
A New Translation of Shi Jing Guo Feng: A Chinese–English Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Shi Jing is the oldest anthology of Chinese songs. It contains 305 songs of ancient China, composed in the 12th to 7th century BCE. The collection is divided into four parts. The present work is a translation of its first part, namely Guo Feng, which translates as "songs of states" within...
China and the Chinese
With a new foreword by Graham Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Herbert Giles was one of the most prominent Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century and China and the Chinese was in its era one of the best-selling and most authoritative books on the topic. Originally published in 1902, Giles’ commentary on all thing Chinese, based on six lectures...
by Sidney Rittenberg, Amanda Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until...
Fact in Fiction
1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin...
Red Sorrow
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
“A searing memoir in fluid, conversational prose [that] adds to the pool of personal testimonies of China’s historical nightmare” (Publishers Weekly).
At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 China, thirteen-year-old Nanchu watched as the Red Guards burst into her home and arrested...
The Unknown Cultural Revolution
Life and Change in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic...
Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme—like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century—proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction...
by Edward Friedman, Professor Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor Mark Selden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to...
The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China
May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological...