This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)

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)

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)

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state fo...(展开全部)

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

These essays address related facets of the shifting and fluid process of negotiation that is the real nature of ethnic relations in China, past and present, and by extension in the rest of the world. The volume concerns itself both with the overarching identity, first cultural and then national, that we now call "Chinese" and with its constituent ethnicites, including both the ...(展开全部)