China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party’s 18th National…
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the Frontline of Xi’s New China [Audiobook] The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheaval. It was…
Revisiting Women’s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream…
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically…
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang…
Corporate Conquests : Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China’s north- and southwest. Such…
H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the…
The Emperor’s Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals The history of China – not according to emperors or battles, but according to its food and drink. The Emperor’s…
Fengshui In China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy And Popular Religion For well over a century Chinese fengshui, or geomancy, has fascinated Western laymen and scholars. Today hundreds of popular manuals…
Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917 Opium addiction in China during the closing decades of the Ch’ing dynasty afflicted all segments of society. From government officials…