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Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)
Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)-a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early …
Unpredictable Agents
In Unpredictable Agents, twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered "America" and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. People …
Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China
This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing's Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book …
Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276
In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar …
Chinese Warlord Armies 1911 30
Defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894 95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution and a republic was proclaimed in 1912.From the death of the …
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC–AD 220
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the Ch'in and Han empires.
Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial …
Horse in 2013: Your Chinese Horoscope
What the year of the snake holds in store for the horse.This complete guide contains all the predictions you will need for your Chinese zodiac sign to take you into the year …
Mongolia in the Twentieth Century
The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern …
Children of China's Great Migration
In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural …
Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction
Women's tanci, or ""plucking rhymes,"" are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in …
New Dimensions in Hunter-gatherer Studies
In the last decade or so. There has been substantial development in understanding the behavioral patterns of the pasthunter-gatherers societies. Although images of existing …