Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China 9781498526296, 9781498526289

Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture 0813134064, 9780813134062, 9780813134079

Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displ

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China 9780520354982, 9780520240841

By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a w

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories 9780472123445, 9780472053728

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Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China 9781503617520

This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks

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Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China 9780226090542

Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 190

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories 9780472123445, 9780472053728

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The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China 9780226383309

Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the

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Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China 022609040X, 9780226090405

Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 190

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