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“professor mark selden”

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  • Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

    by Edward Friedman, Professor Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor Mark Selden ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    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 survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    A Childhood Lost in Chaos

    by Emily Wu, Larry Engelmann ...
    Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to unending humiliation and abuse. Wu recounts this hidden holocaust in which millions of children and ... Read more

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  • RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY - 1912 - Volume 1

    PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA. 1906-1909.

    by M. Aurel Stein, Ben Hammott (Editor) ...
    Series series RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY
    RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912)PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN.WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1This is the complete and unabridged version and includes every image that appears in the original printed version. This is NOT a scanned copy with ... Read more

    $7.45 CAD

  • India and Tibet

    by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband ...
    It is an interesting reflection for those to make who think that we must necessarily have been the aggressive party, that the far-distant primary cause of all our attempts at intercourse with the Tibetans was an act of aggression, not on our part, not on the part of an ambitious Pro-consul, or some headstrong frontier officer, but of the Bhutanese, neighbours, and then vassals, of the Tibetans, ... Read more

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  • Shanghai and Nanjing 1937

    Massacre on the Yangtze

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 309 - Campaign
    A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Cherishing Men from Afar

    Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793

    by James L. Hevia ...
    In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962

    An Oral History

    by Xun Zhou ...
    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 of China’s agriculture, industry, and trade while leaving large portions of the countryside forever ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Women in Imperial China

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Keeping Democracy at Bay

    Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform

    by Suzanne Pepper ...
    This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • China's New Socialist Countryside

    Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley

    by Russell Harwood ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: 10.6069/9780295804781Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on ... Read more

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  • Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

    The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

    by Hsiao-yen Peng ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Gendered Words

    Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China

    by Fei-wen Liu ...
    Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nüshu. What drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is addressed in epistemology and historiography and how the unprivileged social ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD