Robert Cliver’s “Red Silk” is a history of China’s Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century
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Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix Boecking “No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945” (Harvard Asia
Wilt L. Idema and Xiaofei Tian introduce the Fairbank Center’s latest exhibition of eclectic treasures from Chinese history.
A Reading and Teaching Guide to the history of Black and African American connections with China.
Evan N. Dawley’s “Becoming Taiwanese” examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the formation of new identities: the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung).
In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general.
Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic.
In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts.
Joshua Hill’s “Voting as a Rite” examines China’s experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Revolution and Factionalism in China’s Cultural Revolution, with Guobin Yang From 1966 to 1968, youth in urban China were embroiled in factional battles