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.
The dramatic growth of ethno-nationalism in China and India is a driving force behind their current border tensions.
Author: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University About the book In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders
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
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.
