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Agents and Victims in South China
When peasants live in complex agrarian societies with distinct hierarchies of power, how much are they able to shape their world? In this socio-economic, political, and …
Merchants' Daughters – Women, Commerce and Regional Culture in South China
The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual …
Empire at the Margins
Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. …
Down to Earth
Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl …
Mao's Harvest
This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the "e;Mao Generation"e;--the first generation of …