Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China 9780824862367

Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China 9780674029408, 0674029402

Leading scholar K. C. Chang challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Th

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Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology Of Emptiness

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The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty 9780755624010, 9781845111595

What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking

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White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire 9780674726611

The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820 CE) has occupied an awkward position in studies of China's last dynasty, th

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After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition 9781978807020

After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system

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Art and Political Expression in Early China 0300047673, 9780300047677

Powers examines the art and politics of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. - 200 A.D.) and shows that both were influenced by the

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Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China 0674008545, 9780674008540

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of

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The Transformation of Governance in Rural China: Market, Finance, and Political Authority 9781107081758, 1107081750

"This book started twelve years ago as a much smaller project which was intended to explore China's peasant bu

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Buddhist Historiography in China 9780231556095

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their histo

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Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China 9781785335815

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusati

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