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  • Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China

    The Uncanny New Village

    de Lili Lai ...
    Series series Environment and Society in Asia
    This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Gathering Medicines

    Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South

    de Judith Farquhar, Lili Lai ...
    In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edición de Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    de Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China

    Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi

    de Delia Lin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi – a term that denotes the idea of cultivating a ‘quality’ citizenship – is central to this programme of rejuvenation, and is enjoying a revival. This book therefore offers ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    de Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

    Plurality and Synthesis

    de Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Desiring China

    Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

    de Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine

    Heritage and Adaptation

    Traducido por Bridie Andrews ...
    de Paul U. Unschuld ...
    A leading authority explains the ideas and practice of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with culture and politics throughout Chinese history. He brings together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Cosmologies of Credit

    Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    de Yuehping Yen ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD