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  • China and the Challenge of the Future

    Changing Political Patterns

    This book highlights information obtained from formal interviews and informal conversations with knowledgeable Chinese in 1985-1987. It reveals the growing participation in politics of social groups and related changes underway in the patterns of contemporary Chinese political thought and culture. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • China's Establishment Intellectuals

    First published in 1987. This book is part of an ongoing intellectual project—to understand how a changing Chinese Marxism both reflects and shapes the lives of the intelligentsia in China. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Decision-making in Deng's China

    Perspectives from Insiders

    Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989. ... Read more

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  • Salt and Light, Volume 2

    More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China

    Series series Studies in Chinese Christianity
    The hidden seeds of the Christian renewal in China today include the outstanding Chinese Christians in Salt and Light 2, a dozen new life stories with lively anecdotes and photographs. These reformers made lasting contributions that shaped modern China. Working out of the limelight in their professions, they had quiet but powerful influence on early twentieth-century civil society. Motivated by ... Read more

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  • Salt and Light, Volume 3

    More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China

    Series series Studies in Chinese Christianity
    In this centennial year of China's 1911 Revolution, Volume 3 in the Salt and Light series includes the life stories of influential Chinese who played a political or military role in the new Republic that emerged. Recovering this precious legacy of faith in action shows the deep roots of the revival of Christian faith in China today. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salt and Light, Volume 1

    Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China

    Series series Studies in Chinese Christianity
    Salt and Light presents the life stories of outstanding Chinese Christians who, as early modernizers, promoted China's nation building and moral progress in the early twentieth century. Lively anecdotes and photographs highlight the strong character of ten pioneers in the modern professions of education, medicine, journalism, and diplomacy. These professionals were motivated by faith to introduce ... Read more

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  • Timothy Richard’s Vision

    Education and Reform in China, 1880–1910

    Series series Studies in Chinese Christianity
    Pioneer missionary Timothy Richard served forty-five years in China and became a household name among educated Chinese. Largely forgotten for decades, his amazing life is reintroduced in this most welcome volume. In 1880, Richard first articulated a vision for modern higher education as the basis for overall progress in China. His influence grew, along with high official honors, after 1891 when he ... Read more

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    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Age of Openness

    The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikötter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Man Awakened from Dreams

    One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942

    In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A New History of Christianity in China

    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity
    A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction.Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and ... Read more

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  • What Remains

    Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

    The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD