David Porter, Ph.D. Candidate and Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate, describes Zhao Quan’s unsuccessful attempts to earn money from banner status in the Qing Dynasty.
History
New York Times reporter and RSEA student, Helen Gao, interviews Former Fairbank Center Director Roderick MacFarquhar for the NYT’s Sinosphere.
Huan Jin, Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate, explains the use of print propaganda during one of the most atrocious civil wars in human history.
Xin Wen, PhD student in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, describes a summer in the British Library’s Asian and African Studies center, and how he might be an academic Spiderman…
We are saddened to report the news of the death of our friend and former Director Philip A. Kuhn.
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.
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.
On Saturday November 7, 2015 the Presidents of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, and the Republic of China, Ma Ying-Jeou, will meet face-to-face.
Awarded the 2014 Stanislaus Julian Prize, Out of print, superseded by 5th, and 6th Editions