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.
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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Out of print, superseded by 4th, 5th, and 6th Editions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.
A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain the legacy of Cultural Revolution propaganda art–music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature–all from the point of view of its longue durée.
This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories.
Edited and expanded from the original papers of Fairbank Center for Chinese studies conference to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the PRC, the wide-ranging essays in this bilingual volume remain true to the conference’s aim: to promote open discussion of the past, present, and future of the People’s Republic of China.
The authors of these essays demonstrate that China’s political system allows for more diverse and flexible input than would be predicted from its formal structures; thus, even in a post-revolutionary PRC, the invisible hand of Chairman Mao—tamed, tweaked, and transformed—plays an important role in China’s adaptive governance.
This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty.