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1. The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China

   Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions

   Edited by Billy K. L. So

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early...

   Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Taiwan in Japan’s Empire-Building

   An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering

   By Hui-yu Caroline Tsai

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan’s larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

   The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

   By Hsiao-yen Peng

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
4. Beyond Confucian China

   The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin

   By Young-tsu Wong

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
5. Divine Justice

   Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture

   By Paul R. Katz

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important...

   Published December 21st 2009 by Routledge
6. The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi

   By Lawrence C.H Yim

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge