"This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China's economic framewo…
"Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or "knowledge of good and bad…
"Charts the development of the first Vietnam War--the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Vietminh) and the French colonial power--considering especially how relations between the Vietminh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows…
This book explores the opportunities and challenges that both Europe and Asia face under the framework of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSR Initiative), put forward by the Chinese government together with the Silk…
The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standards stagnate for all but the very wealthy. As a result, alienation and nationalism are on the rise. China, in the meantime, has become…
China's Civil War: a social history, 1945-1949
by Lary, Diana
fromNew approaches to Asian history
China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Party an…
China's Civil War: a Social History, 1945-1949
by Lary, Diana
fromNew approaches to Asian history
"China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-1949 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Part…
This text examines the integral role of religious beliefs and practices in Chinese legal culture.
Body and face in Chinese visual culture
by Wu Hung, Tsiang, Katherine R.
fromHarvard East Asian Monographs