In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge ...(展开全部)

This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre–periphery dynamics. The tradition’s development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Chang’a...(展开全部)

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets, powerfully frame their life prospects in ways that are barely recognizable to their pa...(展开全部)

【廣東模式與中國稅收：近代中國財政體系的形成、發展與特色】 本書探討近代中國財政的形成、發展與特色，特別聚焦於#廣東省 ，以描繪宏觀面的趨勢與微觀面的現實。主要涵蓋時間從晚清到民國初年，以1937年中日戰爭的全面爆發為終點。近代金融觀念首度於清末被引進後，民國時期無論國家與地方都致力於財政建設。但財政現代化的過程卻受中日戰爭爆發所阻，且因為後續的國共內戰，中斷後始終未曾回到正軌。直到1978年實施改革開放才恢復進行民國初年 。因此，為了說明中國財政體系的結構性變遷與持續性的特色，本書亦包括關於清初與今日中國財政的討論。

This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants for...(展开全部)

This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants for...(展开全部)

With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China’s generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuominta...(展开全部)

As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive study of China's territorial disputes, Strong Borders, Secure Nation co...(展开全部)