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Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

by Anna Sun

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over...


Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War

by Edwin Pak-wah Leung

The Chinese Civil War, has been regarded by many as an important subject in the study of modern Chinese history, as this protracted struggle ultimately led to the Communist victory on the Mainland and the Nationalist...


Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes

by M. Taylor Fravel

As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns...


Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

by Jos Gamble

In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching...


Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market

by Merle Goldman & Edward Gu

This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China...


Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, 2nd edition

by Marc Lanteigne

This updated and expanded new edition of Chinese Foreign Policy examines the patterns of engagement with various domestic and international actors that have shaped Beijing's foreign policy since the Cold War....


Sino-American Relations: Challenges Ahead

by Yufan Hao

This volume analyzes current problems in Sino-American relations in the context of regional and global strategic patterns and their historical development in the last thirty years. These issues - like the international...


The Devouring Dragon

by Craig Simons

China’s rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet’s largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest...


Four Sisters of Hofei: A History

by Annping Chin

Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge...


Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China

by Darryl E. Brock, Chunjuan Nancy Wei & Joseph W. Dauben

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in...


Modern Chinese Real Estate Law: Property Development in an Evolving Legal System

by Gregory M. Stein

With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study uses fieldwork...


A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence

by Martin Stuart-Fox

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient...


State Violence in East Asia

by N. Ganesan & Sung Chull Kim

The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first...


Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives

by Xiaobing Li & Qiang Fang

China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China becomes more powerful on the world stage, the global community...


The Mizan UL Haqq - Or Balance of Truth

by , C. Pfander

This fascinating book was written as a discussion between Christian and Muslim missionaries. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...


Gage Street Courtesan

by Christopher New

Franziska Goldmann, an opera singer fallen on hard times, has become the star courtesan in 19th century Hong Kong. A chance encounter with Queen Victoria’s musical second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity...


Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai

by Ulrich Baer

An exciting and moving collection of stories, this book introduces denizens of the wildly disparate worlds populating China's most vibrant city: Shanghai. Different and unique, these spirited stories are united...


The China Reader: The Reform Era

by Orville Schell & David Shambaugh

Current Affairs/Asian Studies

Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of...


Transforming Rural China: How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China

by Chih-Jou Jay Chen

It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese...


Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China

by Danke Li

This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan during World War...