Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China 9780824863814

The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State (China Program Books (Hardcover)) 9780295995090, 0295995092

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials o

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Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China 1108471323, 9781108471329

Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable

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The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China 9780824865009

For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial developme

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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China 9780824842024

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China 9780415648363

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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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The District Magistrate In Late Imperial China 0231035357, 9780231035354

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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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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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