New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty 0415841380, 9780415841382

The History and Spirit of Chinese Art: From the Song to the Qing Dynasty 1623201284, 9781623201289

Art is always a product of cultural evolution, and The History and Spirit of Chinese Art looks at this universal process

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The History of China’s Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China, which it ruled for 268 years. After rising to power in 1644, it

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Book of Spies: A Qing Dynasty Chinese Spy Manual

The only premodern contemplation of spies ever written apart from Sunzi’s brief but incisive Art of War chapter, Jian Sh

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Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History 9780585122779

This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low disho

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The Qing Dynasty Mysteries - Books 1-3

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Women and the Word ; The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

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Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment 9780814789483

Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminol

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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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Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 9780231525459

Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fu

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The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty 9780755624010, 9781845111595

What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking

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