This study examines the cultural effects of China's adoption of a European military model in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that there was a conceptual reconfiguration of Chinese masculinity and citizenship and focuses on how the body was conceived,…
This study examines the cultural effects of China's adoption of a European military model in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that there was a conceptual reconfiguration of Chinese masculinity and citizenship and focuses on how the body was conceived,…
"An assumption still made in much social science research, that Europe provides a universal model of development, is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to evaluate current understandings of Europ…
"An assumption still made in much social science research, that Europe provides a universal model of development, is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to evaluate current understandings of Europ…
"An assumption still made in much social science research, that Europe provides a universal model of development, is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to evaluate current understandings of Europ…
"Bitterly contested memories of war, colonization and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the three decades since the 1980s. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly …
"In this book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of t…
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"This book explores processes of cultural change in a Chinese city in the aftermath of the Manchu conquest of China in 1644. The city of Yangzhou, located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi River, is best known as the site of a devastating human and physical d…
This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'etat mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China's one-party dictatorship and launch a transiti…
This is a compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China's 'New Left'. It challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm
