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Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician

The Many Lives of Fazang (643-712)

By: Jinhua Chen

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Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician

The Many Lives of Fazang (643-712)

By: Jinhua Chen

The Buddhist master Fazang is regarded as one of the greatest metaphysicians in medieval Asia. This study aims at correcting misinterpretations and shedding light on neglected areas, opening up for discussion the various structures of medieval East Asian monastic biography.

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BRILL

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9004156135

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9789004156135

China's Road to the Korean War

The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation

By: Chen Jian

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China's Road to the Korean War

The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation

By: Chen Jian

China's Road to the Korean War

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361

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Columbia University Press

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0231504578

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9780231504577

Zhou Enlai

A Life

By: Jian Chen

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Zhou Enlai

A Life

By: Jian Chen

The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss—Chairman Mao. Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People’s Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country’s administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, as well as its legendary spymaster. Richard Nixon proclaimed him “the greatest statesman of our era.” Yet Zhou has always been overshadowed by Chairman Mao. Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and aspirations who did much to make China, as well as the larger world, what it is today. Born to a declining mandarin family in 1898, Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China’s development, Zhou embraced the communist revolution as a vehicle of China’s salvation. He helped Mao govern through a series of transformations, including the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Yet, as Chen shows, Zhou was never a committed Maoist. His extraordinary political and bureaucratic skill, combined with his centrist approaches, enabled him to mitigate the enormous damage caused by Mao’s radicalism. When Zhou died in 1976, the PRC that we know of was not yet visible on the horizon; he never saw glistening twenty-first-century Shanghai or the broader emergence of Chinese capitalism. But it was Zhou’s work that shaped the nation whose influence and power are today felt in every corner of the globe.

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841

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Harvard University Press - T

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0674296575

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9780674296572

Mao's China and the Cold War

By: Jian Chen

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Mao's China and the Cold War

By: Jian Chen

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.

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415

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807898902

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9780807898901

In Search of the Dharma

Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim

By: Chen-hua

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In Search of the Dharma

Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim

By: Chen-hua

This is the first and only book in English on modern Chinese Buddhism written by a practicing Chinese monk. Chen-hua provides a rare eyewitness account of Chinese monastic life and Buddhist practices before they were changed forever by the Communist revolution. It begins with his departure from home in northern China to study Buddhism in Kiansu and Chekiang in the south and ends with his rejoining the monastic order in Taiwan after spending several years as a draftee in the Nationalist army. Following century-old traditions of Chan monks, Chen-hua made prilgrimages to all the major monasteries and holy sites, and sought instruction from many famous masters. His ordination at Pao-hua; Buddha recitation weeks at Ling-yen; scriptural studies at Tien-ning; and a pilgrimage to Pu-to, the sacred island of Kuan-yin, are some of the highlights of this candid and perceptive book. The Introduction by Chun-fang Yu places the work in a historical perspective. Notes, a glossary of Chinese terms, maps, and photos help readers who are new to the field.

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316

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SUNY Press

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0791408469

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9780791408469

Will the Boat Sink the Water?

The Life of China's Peasants

By: Chen Guidi,Wu Chuntao

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Will the Boat Sink the Water?

The Life of China's Peasants

By: Chen Guidi,Wu Chuntao

The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of particular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.

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258

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PublicAffairs

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1586485393

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9781586485399

Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Education, Religion, and Childhood

By: Shih-Wen Sue Chen

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Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Education, Religion, and Childhood

By: Shih-Wen Sue Chen

This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children’s literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children’s literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children’s literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children.

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Springer

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9811360839

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9789811360831

Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

A Trans-Pacific Community

By: Yong Chen

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Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

A Trans-Pacific Community

By: Yong Chen

Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.

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438

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Stanford University Press

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0804745501

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9780804745505

Revolution and Form

Mao Dun's Early Novels and Chinese Literary Modernity

By: Jianhua Chen

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Revolution and Form

Mao Dun's Early Novels and Chinese Literary Modernity

By: Jianhua Chen

In Revolution and Form, Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender. Chen’s study examines Mao Dun’s early fiction in relationship to the biographical and historical conditions under which it was produced. Translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, FU Poshek, Nga Li LAM, LI Meng, and Carlos Rojas.

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358

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BRILL

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9004364854

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9789004364851

The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries 2011

Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries

By: Liu Fei,Zheng Hong,Huang Lin,Cui Xuan,Chen Hu Yangyu

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The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries 2011

Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries

By: Liu Fei,Zheng Hong,Huang Lin,Cui Xuan,Chen Hu Yangyu

The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries is a large comprehensive, authoritative and informative annual which accurately records and reflects the annual development of cultural industries in China. It is also a large reference book with abundant information on cultural industries in China and a complex index, which could be kept for a long time and read for many years. A must for libraries. It deals with Radio and TV, the film industry, Press and Publishing Industries, the Entertainment Industry, Online Game Industry, Audio Visual New Media Industry, Advertisement Industry, and the Cultural Tourism Industry. It examines the figures nationally and by region.

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661

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ATF Press

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1921816430

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9781921816437

Chinese Shadow Theatre

History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors

By: Fan Pen Li Chen

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Chinese Shadow Theatre

History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors

By: Fan Pen Li Chen

In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773575995

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9780773575998

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Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician

Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician

China's Road to the Korean War

China's Road to the Korean War

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai

Mao's China and the Cold War

Mao's China and the Cold War

In Search of the Dharma

In Search of the Dharma

Will the Boat Sink the Water?

Will the Boat Sink the Water?

Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

Revolution and Form

Revolution and Form

The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries 2011

The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries 2011

Chinese Shadow Theatre

Chinese Shadow Theatre

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