This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China; it reconstructs North Chinese temple festivals in unprecedented detail, illuminating their importance to North Chinese village ritual.
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This book is about the stories about Chineseness and sovereignty told among Macau residents and how these stories informed them in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them.
This book, a condensed translation of the prize-winning Jacqueries et révolution dans la Chine du XXe siècle, focuses on “spontaneous” rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. Yet it raises issues inspired by the perennial concerns of revolutionary leaders, such as peasant “class consciousness” and China’s modernization.
By analyzing the impact of the slump in silver prices, the Great Depression, and the process of recovery, this book examines the transformation of state–market relations in light of the linkages between the Chinese and the world economy.
James Robson’s analysis of the importance of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) to the imperial cult and how this critical space was negotiated by Daoists and Buddhists demonstrates the value of local studies and the emerging field of Buddho–Daoist studies in research on Chinese religion.
This work explores interactions between society and environment in China’s most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth-century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s.
This groundbreaking study explores this underappreciated aspect of Chinese political life by investigating rainmaking activities organized or conducted by local officials in the Qing dynasty; using a wide variety of primary sources, this study explains how and why state rainmaking became a prominent feature of the late imperial religious landscape.
This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. The goal of this volume is to use a focus on tropes of visuality and gender to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity.
This book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai.
This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan, tracing the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities, from primary producers to managerial elites, and from women to men.