Asian Studies: Chinese History

By Samuel Y. Liang

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new…

Paperback – 2012-05-01
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Asia's Transformations

Edited by Bryna Goodman, David Goodman

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This…

Paperback – 2012-04-27
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By Yuanyuan Peng

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949. Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book…

Paperback – 2012-04-17
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Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

By Paul J. Bailey

Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by…

Paperback – 2012-03-22
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

By Jieyu Liu

Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike…

Paperback – 2011-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos

The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of…

Paperback – 2011-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

By Asaf Goldschmidt

The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth…

Paperback – 2011-07-07
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Needham Research Institute Series

By Christopher R. Lew

This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945–1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of…

Paperback – 2011-05-17
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Asian States and Empires

By Hui-yu Caroline Tsai

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…

Paperback – 2011-05-10
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Academia Sinica on East Asia

By Gregor Benton

The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had…

Paperback – 2011-03-24
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Chinese Worlds

By Francesca Tarocco

Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. Francesca Tarocco is a rising star in this field and offers an innovative high-quality piece of work that presents a new perspective on the influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture.…

Paperback – 2011-02-24
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Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

By Bruce Elleman

This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists, the impact of the USSR's…

Paperback – 2010-06-01
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia