Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China 9780824863814

The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China 9780824865009

For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial developme

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At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China 9780231546232

In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of ho

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Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China 9780824874018

Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that mar

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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China 9780824842024

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Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China 9780824863739

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us abo

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China 9780415648363

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Writing Women in Late Imperial China 9780804765916

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship ha

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The District Magistrate In Late Imperial China 0231035357, 9780231035354

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Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China 0691246734, 9780691246734

A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty Today the term

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