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  • Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942

    Edited by Gregor Benton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: China Under Mao
    This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the Republic. Between 1915 and 1919, he had led the New Culture Movement that electrified student youth and laid the intellectual foundations for modern China, and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Chinese Colonial Entanglements

    Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950

    by Natalie Fong, Peter Gibson, Mei-fen Kuo, Nicholas Surany, Danny Tze Ken Wong, Renzhe Zhang, Sophie Loy-Wilson ...
    Series series Asia Pacific Flows
    Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Scattered Sand

    The Story of China's Rural Migrants

    by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton ...
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942

    Tin, Tobacco, Timber, and the Penal Sanction

    by Gregor Benton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Was Mao Really a Monster?

    The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s "Mao: The Unknown Story"

    Edited by Gregor Benton, Lin Chun ...
    Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now

    by Mauro García Triana, Pedro Eng Herrera ...
    Translated by Gregor Benton ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book is a translation of a study by Mauro García Triana and Pedro Eng Herrera on the history of the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Diasporic Chinese Ventures

    The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

    Edited by GREGOR BENTON, Hong Liu ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's transformation. The book collects interviews, speeches and essays that illustrate the development and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Chinese Migrants Write Home: A Dual-language Anthology Of Twentieth-century Family Letters

    by Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu ...
    Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese migrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Qiaopi had numerous functions and dimensions, ranging from economic and social to cultural and political. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' programme, set up in 1992 because of 'a growing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Poets of the Chinese Revolution

    by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, Mao Tse-Tung ...
    How poetry and revolution meshed in Red ChinaThe Chinese Revolution, which fought its way to power seventy years ago, was a complex and protracted event in which groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations for the Revolution competed, although in the end Mao came to rule over the others. Its veterans included many poets, four of whom feature in this anthology. All wrote in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dear China

    Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980

    by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu ...
    Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Belonging to the Nation

    Generational Change, Identity and the Chinese Diaspora

    Edited by Gregor Benton, Edmund Gomez ...
    Series series 3D Photorealistic Rendering
    This study reviews developments in the ethnic and national identity of the descendants of migrants, taking ethnic Chinese as a case study. Our core question is why, in spite of debates worldwide about identity, exclusion and rights, do minority communities continue to suffer discrimination and attacks? This question is asked in view of the growing incidence in recent years of ‘racial’ conflicts ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora

    Edited by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu, Huimei Zhang ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preserve family ties. Although such correspondence focused principally on the provision of economic support, the qiaopi also touched on cultural, political, educational, and gender themes.This book therefore ... Read more

    $59.99 USD