Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China 9004142037, 9789004142039

Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China 9780226355610

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of

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The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China 9781503618114

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asi

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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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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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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China 9780415648363

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Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China 9780824874650

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Politics and Industrialization in Late Imperial China 9789814376570

Uses the early phase of Chinese industrial efforts to demonstrate that Chinese political values significantly and assure

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Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China 9781503619623

Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropologica

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