At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China 023118560X, 9780231185608

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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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers 1498531687, 9781498531689

In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing governm

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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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Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature 9780824861452

The frequent appearance of androgyny in Ming and Qing literature has long interested scholars of late imperial Chinese c

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Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature 0824825713, 9780824825713

The frequent appearance of androgyny in Ming and Qing literature has long interested scholars of late imperial Chinese c

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Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China 0521393426, 9780521393423

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length

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Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China 9780824862497

The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the centre of the transmission of economic control

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Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China [1 ed.] 9789047443339, 9789004167766

Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895-1912) from three interrelated and comparatively

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Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform 9780804794275

This book examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of the woman writer Xue Shaohui and her reform-minded coll

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