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  • China's Traditional Legal Order

    Narrating Law across Civilizations

    by Hiroaki Terada ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In traditional China, social relations were shaped through market-like contractual means, with land freely traded and disputes resolved in state ... Read more

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  • Korean Mind

    Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture

    by Boye Lafayette De Mente ...
    The Koreans: understanding a people and their culture through key words and language.Koreans have a unique character and personality that sets them apart from all other Asians. And although Korean attitudes and behavior may be influenced by the modern world, the Korean mindset is still very much shaped by ancient culture and traditions. As is the case with all ancient cultures created within ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters

    Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers—and what they can teach us about today’s most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina’s most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country’s leaders is ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • A Confucian Constitutional Order

    How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future

    by Jiang Qing ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing—China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Laws of the Land

    Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

    by Tristan G. Brown ...
    A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese ... Read more

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  • Confucian Perfectionism

    A Political Philosophy for Modern Times

    by Joseph Chan ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    "This splendid book makes a powerful case that Confucianism has much to contribute to contemporary political thought and practice the world over." —Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan UniversitySince the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance ... Read more

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  • The Chinese State in Ming Society

    by Timothy Brook ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship. It argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Cosmologies of Credit

    Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

    by Julie Y. Chu ...
    Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Women in Early Imperial China

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio

    Essays on China and the World

    by Liang Qichao, Peter Zarrow ...
    Translated by Peter Zarrow ...
    'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' - Pankaj Mishra'I have been waiting a very long time for a volume like this one, [it is] a real milestone [...] Peter Zarrow has finally undertaken the considerable scholarly effort to translate, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Birth of Chinese Feminism

    Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

    Edited by Dorothy Ko, Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical problems. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin's work in English, critically ... Read more

    $32.39 USD