The essays in this volume propose “red legacies” as a new critical framework from which to examine the profusion of cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China’s continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism.
Publications
In this book, Hilde De Weerdt makes an important intervention in cultural and intellectual history by examining censorship and publicity together during Song China.
“Young China” is a synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, it combines historical investigations of the origin and development of the modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological growth of youth with a symbolic allusion to national rejuvenation.
Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the genre of the political novel from Disraeli’s England through Europe and the United States to East Asia.
Awarded the 2014 Stanislaus Julian Prize, Out of print, superseded by 5th, and 6th Editions
In this book, Nara Dillon traces the origins of the Chinese welfare state from the 1940s through the 1960s, when such inequalities emerged and were institutionalized, to uncover the reasons why the state failed to achieve this goal.
This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for premodern Chinese studies.
In this book, Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites in the middle period of Chinese imperial history.
Out of print, superseded by 4th, 5th, and 6th Editions
Xiaojue Wang’s “Modernity with a Cold War Face” examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature.