University Of Washington Press: 541 books
On Sacred Ground
The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
On Sacred Ground explores the literature of the Northwest, the area that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Siskiyou Mountains. The Northwest exhibits astonishing geographical diversity and yet the entire bioregion shares a similarity of...
by Rachel Simon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the first major study of women in an Arab country�s Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country. Simon shows how social, economic, and political changes in Libyan...
The World of a Tiny Insect
A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."
So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The...
Excavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China,...
The Han
China's Diverse Majority
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity....
China's Transition to Modernity
The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
The figure of Dai Zhen (1724�1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings....
by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive...
Forming the Early Chinese Court
Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin,...
Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
The Premi of Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the...
Urbanization in Early and Medieval China
Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE–220 CE), Tang (618–907), and Northern Song (960–1126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allow the reader to trace the dramatic changes that occurred...
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography...
by Manling Luo
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, “tales of the marvelous,” “records...
Novel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to...
Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and emotions of these women, most of whom belonged to the...