Author: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; former Vice Provost for Advances in Learning About the book As the first intellectual history of […]
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Author: Wai-yee Li, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University About the book Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often
Author: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School; Center Associate About the book Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of
Author: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University About the book The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s
Authors: Marc Blecher, James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, USA; David S. G. Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre
Craig A. Smith’s “Chinese Asianism” examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese nationalism and Sino–Japanese relations.
In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang’s leadership and legacy by drawing on an extraordinary and uncensored collection of his diaries, telegrams, and speeches stitched together by his secretaries.
Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of those developments on the relationship between state and local elites on the Guangxi frontier. By situating Cantonese upriver and overseas migration within the same framework, Steven Miles reconceives the late Qing as an age of Cantonese diasporic expansion rather than one of state decline.
Lawrence Reardon’s meticulous tracing of the evolution of the coastal development strategy provides important new insights about the crucial period of the 1980s and how it paved the way for China’s transformation into a global economic superpower.
Margaret B. Wan’s Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture provides a richly textured picture of cultural transmission in the Qing and early Republican eras.