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  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

    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

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  • The Corpse Walker

    Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

    de Liao Yiwu ...
    The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his ... Leer más

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  • China's Second Continent

    How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

    A New York Times Notable BookChinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is ... Leer más

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  • Multiculturalism without Culture

    de Anne Phillips ...
    Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing ... Leer más

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  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    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

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  • 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

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  • Division to Unification in Imperial China

    The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220907)

    de Jing Liu ...
    Series Libro 2 - Understanding China Through Comics
    The second volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's transition from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to Unification in Imperial China is series volume two. It explores one of ... Leer más

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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

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  • Shanghai Manholes

    While many have dedicated much time and energy to showcasing the buildings and historical sites of the former International Settlement and French Concession in Shanghai, the purpose of this book is to highlight the forgotten remnants of infrastructure – still dotting the streets – originally installed by the foreign powers that once called Shanghai home.Since the ending of foreigner controlled ... Leer más

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  • Familiar Strangers

    A History of Muslims in Northwest China

    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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  • Outlaw Woman

    A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition

    In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women’s Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women’s liberation journal, No More Fun and Games.Dunbar-Ortiz was also an antiwar and anti-racist activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s and a ... Leer más

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  • Producing Guanxi

    Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village

    Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment. Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia, Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender, and local patterns of ... Leer más

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