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  • The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

    Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

    de Yingcong Dai ...
    Series series China Program Books
    During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung

    de Mao Tse-tung ...
    This is an incredible collection of all of Mao's great military works. This book was originally published by the Foreign Language Press in Peking in 1967. This is all of Mao's military writings from 1928 to 1949. Including such important works as "On Protracted War" and "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War." These are the source documents from which all of the military thought and ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    de Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • An Uprising on a Voyage in the Coolie Trade. Illustrated.

    de Edgar Holden ...
    The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves. ... Leer más

    $1.49 USD

  • Familiar Strangers

    A History of Muslims in Northwest China

    de Jonathan N. Lipman ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800554The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptions of "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming ... Leer más

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  • In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

    The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

    de Tenzin Jinba ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba’s research examines the consequences ... Leer más

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  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

    de Thomas H. Reilly ...
    Series series China Program Books
    Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Empire and Identity in Guizhou

    Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

    de Jodi L. Weinstein ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities’ attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state’s quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood ... Leer más

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  • The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    de Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The World of a Tiny Insect

    A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath

    de Zhang Daye ...
    Traducido por Xiaofei Tian ...
    "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 Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • China's Mongols at University

    Contesting Cultural Recognition

    de Zhenzhou Zhao, Wing On Lee ...
    Series series Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
    Minority students in China often receive preferential treatment for access to universities. However, very little is known about minority student experiences and perceptions on campus after they are accorded what's called "meaningful access" to university.The Mongols emerged as a distinct ethnic group in China starting in the 11th century and, in the centuries that followed, conquered a large part ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • The Cultural Clash

    Chinese Traditional Native-Place Sentiment and the Anti-Chinese Movement

    de Yucheng Qin ...
    This book is a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Drawing on stunning evidence from newspapers and exciting currents in scholarship, Qin presents a new interpretation of the anti-Chinese movement. By examining Chinese native-place tradition in Chinese history, he shows that Chinese native-place sentiment was responsible for almost all important features of Chinese community in ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD