Statesmen, scholars, and men in the street, 1900-1949 -- Farewell, Leighton Stuart! anti-Americanism in the early fifties -- Challenging a taboo : China's liberal critics and America in 1957 -- Communist crusade and capitalist stronghold : Mao's everlasting revolution and the Un…
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Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural…
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This book is a celebration of the life, work, and impact of Professor Wang Gungwu over the past four decades. It commemorates his contribution to the study of Chinese history and the abiding influence he has exercised over later generations of historians, particularly in the Asi…
Diasporas and the media / John Sinclair and Stuart Cunningham -- Chinese cosmopolitanism and media use / John Sinclair ... [et al.] -- Popular media of the Vietnamese diaspora / Stuart Cunningham and Tina Nguyen -- Bollywood down under : Fiji Indian cultural history and popular …
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the …
