Bøger i Contemporary Chinese Studies serien
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- New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine
343,95 kr. Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China
298,95 - 923,95 kr. A study of the Samsui women who migrated from China to Singapore, where they have been commemorated as nation-builders.
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- 298,95 kr.
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- Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
343,95 - 978,95 kr. Gutenberg in Shanghai demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
343,95 kr. This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy, and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China's National Crisis, 1931-45
318,95 - 923,95 kr. This book explores the casting of China's earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
978,95 kr. This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy, and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.
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- 978,95 kr.
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318,95 - 1.013,95 kr. A study of change in the state-society relationship in contemporary China. Drawing on Chinese scholarship, it shows that the emergent theory on the "dualism" of state and society is contemporaneous with a cognitive and cultural appreciation of the people's independence from state authority.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95
343,95 - 978,95 kr. This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
343,95 - 878,95 kr. Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China's early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
298,95 - 923,95 kr. This is the first English-language book to record the experiences and testimonies of Chinese women abducted and detained as sex slaves in Japanese military "comfort stations" during Japan's 1931-45 invasion of China.
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- 298,95 kr.
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- Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China
343,95 kr. An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China
923,95 kr. An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.
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- 923,95 kr.
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- The Impact of Warfare on Modern China
978,95 kr. A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of warfare on modern China's civilian population.
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- 978,95 kr.
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- Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government
908,95 kr. This exploration of the interactive relationship between Chinese NGOs and the Chinese state provides fresh insights into how the Chinese government operates and why it needs non-governmental organizations to survive.
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- 908,95 kr.
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- Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
978,95 kr. This anthropological study of Chinese archaeologists shows how the discipline works within a Chinese social structure, and uncovers the complex underpinnings of that context.
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- 978,95 kr.
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- Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80
318,95 - 923,95 kr. Milestones on a Golden Road examines works of fiction written in China between 1945 and 1980, when the arts were required to reflect a Maoist vision of history and society.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Recounting War in Modern China
978,95 kr. This collection moves beyond the geopolitical sphere to examine the multiple fronts - personal, social, and institutional - on which wars in modern China have been fought, experienced, and remembered.
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- 978,95 kr.
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- Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
343,95 kr. The Cult of Happiness is among the first studies in any field to treat folk art and folk print as historical text. As such, this richly illustrated volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars in Asian studies, history, art history, folklore and print, as well as anyone having a passion for the creativity and culture of rural society.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930
323,95 kr. Beyond the Amur charts the pivotal role that an overlooked frontier river region and its environment played in Qing China's politics and Sino-Russian relations.
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- 323,95 kr.
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- The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
318,95 kr. This book decodes the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Communities and Cultural Production
343,95 kr. Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China's rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Recounting War in Modern China
343,95 kr. This collection moves beyond the geopolitical sphere to examine the multiple fronts - personal, social, and institutional - on which wars in modern China have been fought, experienced, and remembered.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War
343,95 - 978,95 kr. The New Silk Road Diplomacy traces how China, faced with internal and external challenges to its authority following the collapse of the Soviet Union, constructed a gradualist approach to Central Asia that prioritized multilateral diplomacy.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29
343,95 kr. A revisionist history of a unique administrative experiment - the Chinese administration of Manchuria's Russians in the 1920s - that supports a more nuanced view of Chinese nationalism and China's relationship with minority cultures.
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- 343,95 kr.
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343,95 kr. The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- The Pursuit of Identity and Power
343,95 - 978,95 kr. Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
318,95 - 343,95 kr. Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China's Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- The Impact of Warfare on Modern China
343,95 kr. A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of warfare on modern China's civilian population.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
343,95 - 978,95 kr. Reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation. This book covers women's history in twentieth-century Manchuria. It is suitable for those who study the history of East Asia, imperialism, and women.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
318,95 - 978,95 kr. An investigation into the 1936 execution of a Cantonese official leads to a reassessment of regional and national politics and state-led industrialization in Republican China.
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- 318,95 kr.