Both Western and Chinese intellectuals have long derided filial piety tales as an absurd and grotesque variety of children's literature. "Selfless Offspring" offers a fresh perspective on the genre, revealing the rich historical worth of these stories by examining them in their original context: the tumultuous and politically fragmented early medieval era (A.D. 100-600). At a t...(展开全部)

The book is available from Amazon in Kindle, Hardcover, and Paperback. For further information, please visit the Polity Press website at http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745680542#toc Book Description: Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. Children in China explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of ...(展开全部)

By the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)--deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to this exalted status ...(展开全部)

Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted...(展开全部)

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive sociology of emancipation. Drawing on life stories of high-achieving students f...(展开全部)

Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays colle...(展开全部)

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.

The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users “good” enough to accumulate a substantial sum of merits. ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 包筠雅（Cynthia Joanne Brokaw），美国哈佛大学博士，现任布朗大学历史系教授、系主任。主要从事中国古代社会文化史、书籍史研究。所著《功过格：明清社会的道德秩序》《文化贸易：清代至民国时期四堡的书籍交易》在学术界产生广泛反响，先后被译介到国内 。 译者简介： 杜正贞，浙江大学人文学院历史学系教授。专业方向社会史、法律史，研究兴趣涉及基层社会组织、乡村生活和民间信仰等。已出版著作《村社传统与明清士绅：山西泽州乡土社会的制度变迁》《近代山区的习惯、契约与权力：龙泉司法档案的社会史研究》等。 张林，北京师范大学历史学硕士，现为北京师范大学继续教育与教师培训学院党总支副书记。

In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together t...(展开全部)