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  • Popular China

    Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society

    Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. The culture of popular China ... Read more

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  • China Tripping

    Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic

    This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople to reflect on their personal memories of China. Private experiences—vivid and often entirely unanticipated—often teach more about ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Filming the Everyday

    Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China

    This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two areas that are of special interest to China studies and film studies, respectively: (1) filming the everyday in twenty-first-century China to foreground contestation and diversity and (2) exploring the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • From Underground to Independent

    Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China

    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. Yet as the rich case studies illustrate, the sheer variety of alternative film ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • China on Film

    A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy

    Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores such key themes as the ever-shifting definitions of modern marriage in 1920s silent features, East-West cultural conflict in the movies of the 1930s, the strong appeal of the powerful melodramatic mode of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Restless China

    This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. China’s stratospheric growth has made it the second largest economy in the world—and one of the most unequal. Marxist ideology and socialist ideals have almost completely collapsed, replaced by a combination of materialism and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China

    Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner

    Series series AsiaWorld
    This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    China Tripping

    Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    Bloomsbury presents China Tripping, read by Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link, Katherine Jackowicz, Jeremy Murray and Song Yuen Eunice Lee.This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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