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Narcotic Culture
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into …
Imperfect Conceptions
Frank Dikotter's work analyzes the relationship between medicine and ideas about reproduction in China, from the late Ming to the present. Drawing on sources ranging from treatises …
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial …
Cultures of Confinement
Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now …
Sex, Culture and Society in Modern China
"Sex" emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature …
The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan
This work reflects on the core issues related to the national and racial mythologies that have been central to nation building in China and Japan over the last century. The …
Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan
This work argues that, far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialized senses of belonging have often been the foundation of national identity in …
Things Modern
How do people relate to things? Much has been written about social movements in modern China, but next to nothing is known about the revolution which transformed the texture of …
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in China
Full title: 'Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China'. An examination of the enormous changes in Chinese society in the first half of the 20th century through the lens …