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

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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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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Leadership and initiative in late republican and early imperial Rome 9789004511392

"What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of l

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Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India 0195144252, 9780195144253

Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditiona

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The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China 0295999187, 9780295999180

An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object

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Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods [Illustrated] 0674024494, 9780674024496

Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth thro

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The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China 0520253639, 9780520253636

An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that t

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Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China 0226354202, 9780226354200

In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue

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