co-published with Guangxi Normal PressThe Orient Explorer Collection is a series of interesting texts written by Westerners travelling in China in the 1800s and early 1900s. Each volume has been reprinted from scans of the original publication and is included under a particular theme.The box set focuses on the theme “Women Writers” and features seven books written by women from various walks of life. It is suitable for readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today. With the Empress DowagerKatharine A. CARLThis book provides a sensational account of the author’s time with the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Chinese Court while painting her portrait for an exposition in St. Louis in the United States.978-962-937-405-1 • HK$278 / US$36Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 396 pp • PbA Woman in ChinaMary
Shao Xunmei, poet, essayist, publisher, and printer, played a signifcant role in the publication and dissemination of journals and pictorial magazines in Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s, but this is the first collection of his prose writings to be published in English. The essays in this book, some of which were selected by the writer's daughter, Shao Xiaohong, include long essays such as “One Man Talking” and “A Year in Shanghai” as well as several shorter essays on subjects as diverse as the caricatures of Miguel Covarrubias, woodblockprinting, and pictorial magazines—all of which were published in Shao’s own magazines.
In From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Koen Rutten shed new light on the changing discourse that has shaped China’s idiosyncratic model of eco
Early 20th-century Chinese writers transformed emotional expression in love fiction by translating and inter-textualizing foreign literary texts, says Liu. She shows that the foreign literary texts
The Making of A Modern Art World explores the institutionalisation and legitimisation of guohua in Republican Shanghai, aiming to reconstruct the operational logic and the stratified hierarchy of Shan
This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.
Schneider (politics of modern China, Leiden U., the Netherlands) investigates political discourse in Chinese television drama series. He first examines issues of content, including portrayals of gover
How does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.
Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dramatic knowledge expansion and dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from 1895 to 1949. The nine chapters, heavily case-studied, c
In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in mainland Ch
This study shows how a small number of medical reformers were able to introduce modern healthcare services between 1928-1945 in China when Chinese people were suffering by the millions from infectious
The Dragon Takes Flight: China's Aviation Policy, Achievements, and International Implications analyzes China’s journey toward the development of its C-919 large passenger aircraft and how Boeing and
Starr (classical Chinese, U. of Oxford, UK) offers readings of six Chinese novels, written between 1840 and 1910, that each focus on relationships between clients and their courtesan lovers. Highlight
In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, chaoben ??, for understanding the lives of China’s semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the a
The first version of Klimes' study was his 2012 doctoral dissertation at Charles University in Prague, and drew heavily on his fieldwork in China and modern Xinjiang between 2004 and 2011. He explores
Hillenbrand (Chinese studies, U. of Oxford) moves beyond the East-West framework that has traditionally dominated comparative enquiry by exploring contemporary East Asian literature on its own terms.
Patriots’ Games offers a microhistory of Fan Xudong’s Yongli Chemical Industries from its founding in 1917 to nationalization in 1953, revealing hitherto hidden processes and dilemmas confronting priv
