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 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.
This study maps the complex processes of state-making, moral regulation, and social control during three critical reform periods: the Yongzheng reign (1723–1735), the Guomindang’s Nanjing decade (1927–1937), and the Communist Party’s Socialist Education Campaign (1962–1966).
This book examines how China’s three late imperial dynasties conquered, colonized, and assumed control of the southwest and highlights the indigenous response to this process.
This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era.
Man-houng Lin shows how the disruption in the world’s silver supply caused by the turmoil in Latin America and subsequent changes in global markets led to the massive outflow of silver from China and the crisis of the Qing empire.
This volume offers the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese–American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.
Steven Miles looks beyond intellectual history to local social and cultural history in order to study the literati culture that gave rise to the renowned nineteenth century academy Xuehaitang.
Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui’an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han, asking what such practices have come to mean in the post-1949 socialist order.
This book is a study of how Confucian-trained officials thought about the grain trade and the state’s role in it, particularly the “ever-normal granaries,” the stockpiles of grain maintained by every county government as protection against shortages and high prices, the scope of beliefs in market forces in the 1750s, and the factors behind Chinese state decisions surrounding the purchase and stockpiling of grain.
