In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a ...(展开全部)

Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspoken player in the contentious politics and intellectual debates of the Northern Song dynasty. In this comprehensive study, Egan analyzes Su's literary and artistic work against the background of eleventhcentury developments within Buddhist and Confucian thought and Su's dogged disagr...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press （FLP） in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events de...(展开全部)

伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦（Israel Epstein），国际知名记者、作家。1915年出生在波兰华沙，1917年跟随父母移居中国。长年为美国合众社、《纽约时报》等报道中国。抗日战争期间，对正面战场和敌后战场均有深入报道。既奔赴南京、广州、武汉及山东台儿庄前线战场采访，也曾突破重重封锁访问延安。此外，他还应宋庆龄之邀，在香港参加“保卫中国同盟”，积极宣传中国的抗日斗争并争取国际援助。新中国成立之后，爱泼斯坦应宋庆龄的邀请返回中国，后来加入中国国籍。 爱泼斯坦亲身经历了中国从半殖民地到民族独立、从新中国成立到改革开放的历史巨变。他说：“中国实际上成为我写作的唯一主题。”他的七部主要作品包括： 以抗战为主题的“战争四部曲”：《人民之战》《我访问延安：1944年的通讯和家书》《中国未完成的革命》和《从鸦片战争到解放》。 《西藏的变迁》：这是作者1955—1976...(展开全部)

In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about...(展开全部)

Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared—not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clun...(展开全部)

The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day...(展开全部)

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China exp...(展开全部)

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected mo...(展开全部)