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The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History
The book considers the political, institutional and cultural histories of the Qara Khitai.
Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
In traditional China, upper-class literati were inevitably strongly influenced by Confucian doctrine and rarely touched upon such topics as love and women in their writings. It was not until the mid-Tang, a generation or two after the An Lushan rebellion, that literary circles began to engage in overt discussion of the issues of love and women, through the use of the newly emerging genres of zhiguai and chuanqi fiction. The debate was carried out with an unprecedented enthusiasm, since the topics were considered to be the key to understanding the crisis in Chinese civilization. This book examines the repertoire of chuanqi and zhiguai written during the Six Dynasties and Tang periods and anal...
Twentieth Century China
Emphasizing reference works published since 1964, these volumes cover books, periodicals, and inclusions (i.e., chapters in edited volumes) on the 1911 Revolution, the Republic of China (1949--), post-1911 Taiwan, post-1911 Hong Kong and Macao, and post-1911 overseas Chinese.
Envisioning Eternal Empire
This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.). Yuri Pines identifies the roots of the empire's longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period (453-221 B.C.E.), who, in their search for solutions to an ongoing political crisis, developed ideals, values, and perceptions that would become essential for the future imperial polity. In marked distinction to similar empires worldwide, the Chinese empire was envisioned and to a certain extent "preplanned" long before it came into being. As a result, it was not only a military and administrative construct, but also ...
Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China
Luoyang, situated in present-day Henan province, was one of the great urban centres of pre-Qin and early imperial China, the favoured site for dynastic capitals for almost two millennia. This book, the first in any Western language on the subject, traces the rise and fall of the six different capital cities in the region which served eleven different dynasties from the Western Zhou dynasty, when the first capital city made its appearance in Luoyang, to the great Tang dynasty, when Luoyang experienced a golden age. It examines the political histories of these cities, explores continuity and change in urban form with a particular focus on city layouts and landmark buildings, and discusses the roles of religions, especially Buddhism, and illustrious city residents. Overall the book provides an accessible survey of a broad sweep of premodern Chinese urban history.
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
Introduction --Dreaming Big About Pan-Asianist Education: From 'Asia University' to 'Kenkoku (Nation-Building) University' --Exploring the Meanings of Pan-Asia: Japanese Students' Experiences at Kenkoku University --Calling Asia a New Home: Korean and Taiwanese Students' Experiences at Kenkoku University --Learning to Become 'Chinese' at a Japanese School: Chinese Students' Experiences at Kenkoku University --Building a Utopia Together: Kenkoku, a Juku Periodical, as a Window into Kenkoku University's Institutional Practice of Pan-Asianism.
Student Nationalism in China, 1924-1949
Li examines the critical role of the younger generation as a political force, influenced by the cultural and ideological debates during China's reunification in 1927 and again in 1949. He focuses on key organizations to illustrate how political parties turned explosive, national feelings into an organized political force. Li shows how Chinese student nationalism, despite its radical image, represents a prominent feature of continuity in Chinese sociopolitical culture.
Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables
In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular. In the first monographic treatment of all the chantefable corpus in English the author, by examination from a more anthropological view, points out that these 'oral...
Big Data and Social Computing
This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 7th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing, BDSC 2022, held in Hangzhou, China, from August 11-13, 2022 The 24 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 99 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: urban computing and social governance; artificial intelligence and cognitive science; social network and group behavior; digital society and public security; digital government and public big data
Spymaster
Wakeman's authoritative biography of the ruthlessly powerful man who led the Chinese Secret Service during the violent and tumultuous period after the fall of the Imperial system.
