Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact In the years following China's Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country's reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. Looking at the ways in which political and social reform transformed Chinese architecture and how, in turn, architecture gave structure to the reforms, Cole Roskam underlines architecture's unique ability to shape space as well as behavior. Roskam trac...
Diversity in the Great Unity (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)
by Lala Zuo
Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by Confucian orthodoxy. Throughout its history, Chinese architectural design was closely regulated by court-enforced building codes, which created a highly standardized and modularized system. In Diversity in the Great Unity - the first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture based on a detailed study of the timber construction system...
Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas (Critical Interventions)
by Associate Professor Michelle E Bloom
Dangerous Ground
by Us Army, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), and Director of National Intelligence
Die Volksrepublik China in Deutschland (Saarbreucker Politikwissenschaft,, #19)
by Marie-Luise Nath and Marie-Luise Neath
Land und Leute, Natur und Kultur haben unter kommunistischer Herrschaft nirgendwo grosseren Schaden genommen als in China. Quellen, die darauf hindeuten, gelangen allerdings kaum in die deutsche Offentlichkeit. Diese Studie untersucht deutsche Wahrnehmung von der VR China, beschaftigt sich mit dem sozialwissenschaftlichen Fundus der deutschen China-Kunde und versucht, diesen analytisch nutzbar zu machen. Die Thesen der Studie lauten: Die vorherrschenden Bilder von der VR China sind gepragt von d...
China and the United States
by Professor Xiaobing Li and Hongshan Li
This essay collection presents a new examination and fresh insight into Sino-American relations from the end of World War II to the 1960s. The compilation breaks new ground by exploring some of the untouched Chinese and Soviet Communist sources to document the major events and crises in East Asia. It also identifies a new pattern of confrontations between China and America during the Cold War. Based on extensive multi-archival research utilizing recently-released records, the authors move the...
In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China's prison system, Kiely's thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who concep...
The China Society Yearbook, Volume 3 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Society)
Timber and Forestry in Qing China (Culture, Place, and Nature)
by Assistant Professor of History Meng Zhang
In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historia...
Anyone interested in traditional Chinese painting will find these four volumes useful for self-study. Each of the four volumes teach amateur brush painters to execute the intricacies of Chinese brush painting. Beginning with the separate parts and then progressing to the composition, these volumes feature exquisite illustrations that will enable the learner to pick up the basics as if in a classroom setting.
Anyone interested in traditional Chinese painting will find these four volumes useful for self-study. Each of the four volumes teach amateur brush painters to execute the intricacies of Chinese brush painting. Beginning with the separate parts and then progressing to the composition, these volumes feature exquisite illustrations that will enable the learner to pick up the basics as if in a classroom setting.
Recovering Buddhism in Modern China (The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies)
Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elites jockeyed for cultural dominance in the early Republican era, how Buddhist intellectuals reckoned with science, and how Buddhist media contributed to modern print cultures. It recognizes the political importance of sacred Buddhist relics and the complex processes through which Buddhists both participated in and experienced religious supp...
China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution tha...
Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Paul Bahn and Bill Tidy
This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years. From deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, from pebble tools to satellite photographs, from excavation to abstract theory, archaeology interacts with nearly every other discipline in its attempts to reconstruct the past. In this new edition, Paul Bahn brings t...
Ethnographies of Islam in China
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world - from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women's status, the popularization of mass media and the appearance of new patterns of cons...
WAH LUM KUNG FU of USA * HISTORY of KUNG FU STYLES * THEORY & PHILOSOPHY * WEAPONS * CHINESE MEDICINE
by Suzy Chan and Pui Chan
Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China (Harvard East Asian, #66)
by Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China's long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.