In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presentspivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye ofChina's Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressingquestions of literary product
Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles the assumptionthat home economics training lies far from the seats of power byrevealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China onefamily at a time.
Vancouver has one of the largest populations of Chinese in North America. In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city’s Chinese residents in their search for
Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fameof female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao showshow these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalistcause
In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in thepursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personaland social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, an
The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosionof print journalism. Chinese-owned newspapers, first encouraged byEmperor Guangxu to inform and educate an increasingly literate publ
