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China
A multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography covering all aspects of China. The 1,500 entries (primarily recent English language books) survey literature in geography, tourism, travellers' accounts, natural science, archaeology, history, biographies, religion and philosophy, customs, psychology, foreign relations, medicine, military, economics, art, education, and even food and cooking. The far reaching bibliography prioritizes topical subjects such as Mao Zedong's life and thought, human rights, tradition and revolution in the countryside, and gender studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Going to the Countryside
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth had often crossed the increasing gap between the city and the countryside, which made the act of “going to the countryside” a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China. Such a spatial crossing eventually culminated in the socialist state program of “down to the villages” movements during the 1960s and 1970s. What, then, was the special significance of “going to the countryside” before that era? Going to the Countryside deals with the cultural representations and practices of this practice between 1915 and 1965, ...
Sport Across Asia
This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies - to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the global diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures.
Statistics and the Language of Global Health
Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and international organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health. Lin shows how these initiatives produced an international network of public health experts who, across various socioeconomic and political contexts, opted for different strategies when it came to setting global standards and translating local realities into numbers. Focusing on China and Taiwan between 1917 and 1960, Lin examines the reception, adaptation, and appropriation of international health statistics. She presents the dynamic interplay between numbers, experts, and policy-making in international health organizations and administrations in China and Taiwan. This title is also available as Open Access.
Saving the Nation
Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911. Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.
China and the Great War
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Economic Thought in Modern China
Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.
袍哥：1940年代川西乡村的暴力与秩序
本书从一桩1939年的杀人案和一本尘封七十多年的报告出发，结合丰富的图文资料，细致入微地考察了袍哥组织及近代基层社会的权力运作，审视了袍哥成员及其家庭在动荡的大时代下个人命运的沉浮，揭开具有神秘色彩的袍哥世界的“日常”面目，呈现出一幅饱满、立体、生动的近代川西社会图景。
The Great American Mission
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical im...
