Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China 9780295750835, 2022015086, 2022015087, 9780295750828, 0295750839

Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule 9780520969841

Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China 0804737797, 9780804737791

This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644-1911) and Repub

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China 9780804779272

This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644-1911) and Repub

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Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China 9780804767934

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that i

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Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China 9780520945678, 9780520258570

In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly stu

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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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Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared 9780804764575

Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chi

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Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared 0804741107, 9780804741101

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Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing 0804727406, 9780804727402

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it

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

"In a sweeping overview of four centuries of Mongolian history that draws on previously untapped sources, Johan Elv

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