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The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China

By: Fang-chung Liang

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The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China

By: Fang-chung Liang

This translation of Liang Fang-chung's monograph from 1936 sheds news light on the Single Whip Reform of the Ming Dynasty and its effect on the economic and sociopolitical situation of the time.

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168417130X

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Drawing Boundaries

Architectural Images in Qing China

By: Anita Chung

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Drawing Boundaries

Architectural Images in Qing China

By: Anita Chung

Qing China (1644–1912) witnessed a resurgence in architectural painting, a traditional subject category known as jiehua, or boundary painting. Drawing Boundaries concerns itself with the symbolic implications of this impressive and little studied reflorescence. Beginning with a concise and well-illustrated history of the evolution of the tradition, this exciting new study reveals how these images were deployed in the Manchu (Qing) imperial court to define political, social, or cultural boundaries. Characterized by grand conception and regal splendor, the paintings served to enhance the imperial authority of rulers and, to a segment of the elite, to advertise social status. Drawing Boundaries thus speaks to both issues of painting and architectural style and the discourse of powerful cultural forms. In addition to the analysis of how the style of image construction suggests these political and social motivations, the book identifies another aspect of traditional architectural representation unique to the Qing: the use of architectural representation to render form and space. Anita Chung makes the fascinating observation that these renderings create an overwhelming sense of “being there,” a characteristic, she argues, that underscores the Qing concern for the substance of things—a sensibility toward the physical world characteristic of the period and emblematic of a new worldview.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824862260

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Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969

By: Kenneth Kai-chung Yung

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Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969

By: Kenneth Kai-chung Yung

This book will inspire readers who are concerned about the prospects for democracy in contemporary China by painting a picture of the Chinese self-exiles’ experiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

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BRILL

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9004466045

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Between Ally and Partner

Korea-China Relations and the United States

By: Jae Ho Chung

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Between Ally and Partner

Korea-China Relations and the United States

By: Jae Ho Chung

China and South Korea have come a long way since they were adversaries. The arc of their relationship since the late 1970s is an excellent model of East-West cooperation and, at the same time, highlights the growing impact of China's "rise" over its regional neighbors, including America's close allies. South Korea-China relations have rarely been studied as an independent theme. The accumulation of more than fifteen years of research, Between Ally and Partner reconstructs a comprehensive portrait of Sino-Korean rapprochement and examines the strategic dilemma that the rise of China has posed for South Korea and its alliance with the United States. Jae Ho Chung makes use of declassified government archives, internal reports, and opinion surveys and conducts personal interviews with Korean, Chinese, and American officials. He tackles three questions: Why did South Korea and China reconcile before the end of the cold war? How did rapprochement lay the groundwork for diplomatic normalization? And what will the intersection of security concerns and economic necessity with China mean for South Korea's relationship with its close ally, the United States? The implications of Sino-Korean relations go far beyond the Korean Peninsula. South Korea was caught largely unprepared, both strategically and psychologically, by China's rise, and the dilemma that South Korea now faces has crucial ramifications for many countries in Asia, where attempts to counterbalance China have been rare. Thoroughly investigated and clearly presented, this book answers critical questions concerning what kept these two countries talking and how enmity was transformed into a zeal for partnership.

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Columbia University Press

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0231511183

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Centrifugal Empire

Central–Local Relations in China

By: Jae Ho Chung

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Centrifugal Empire

Central–Local Relations in China

By: Jae Ho Chung

Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests. Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People's Republic, and then compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders' attitudes toward regional autonomy and local challenges, one concerned with territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. Jae Ho Chung reveals how current communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime's savvy adaptation to contemporary issues and its need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. He casts the challenges to China's central–local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system's "socialist" or "Communist" character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese—or centrifugal—nature.

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Columbia University Press

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023154068X

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An Absent Presence

Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960

By: Caroline Chung Simpson

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An Absent Presence

Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960

By: Caroline Chung Simpson

There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline Chung Simpson shows how the portrayal of this economic and social disenfranchisement haunted—and even shaped—the expression of American race relations and national identity throughout the middle of the twentieth century. Simpson argues that when popular journals or social theorists engaged the topic of Japanese American history or identity in the Cold War era they did so in a manner that tended to efface or diminish the complexity of their political and historical experience. As a result, the shadowy figuration of Japanese American identity often took on the semblance of an “absent presence.” Individual chapters feature such topics as the case of the alleged Tokyo Rose, the Hiroshima Maidens Project, and Japanese war brides. Drawing on issues of race, gender, and nation, Simpson connects the internment episode to broader themes of postwar American culture, including the atomic bomb, McCarthyism, the crises of racial integration, and the anxiety over middle-class gender roles. By recapturing and reexamining these vital flashpoints in the projection of Japanese American identity, Simpson fills a critical and historical void in a number of fields including Asian American studies, American studies, and Cold War history.

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Duke University Press

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0822380838

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Creativity and Taoism

A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry

By: Chung-yuan Chang

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Creativity and Taoism

A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry

By: Chung-yuan Chang

In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western intellect' - Ira Progoff 'No one can read Chang's book without experiencing a broadening of his mental horizons' - John C. H. Wu, Philosophy East and West 'His interpretation of the Taoist roots of Ch'an has been presented with taste and learning that help to clear up many questions that must have occurred to anyone familiar with his subject. "The Spirit of the Valley" dwells in this quiet and gentle man who, as so rarely happens, actually embodies some of the philosophic traits of which he writes' - Gerald Sykes 'If the end of reading is the enhancement of life, the enlargement of experience and understanding, then this book becomes an important step in that direction. Dr. Chang writes in a style both lucid and felicitous. He displays with becoming modesty a mastery of the field, its development and its ideas... There is hardly a page which does not give pleasure' - Robert R. Kirsh, Los Angeles Times 'Professor Chang's study, a brilliant exposition and analysis, is concerned with the relevance and applicability of the Taoist view in Chinese artistic and intellectual creativity. Few other works facilitate so sensitive an understanding of creative impulse and expression in Chinese culture' - Hyman Kublin, Library Journal Simultaneously accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the Taoist approach to existence. Chapters cover everything from the potential of creativity to the way tranquillity is reflected in Chinese poems and painting. Chung-yuan Chang's deceptively simple and always lucid narrative explores the relationship between the Tao and the creative arts, introducing classic paintings and poems to bring Taoism to life.

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Singing Dragon

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0857010476

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China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific

Institutionalizing Beijing's 'Good Neighbour Policy'

By: Chien-peng Chung

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China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific

Institutionalizing Beijing's 'Good Neighbour Policy'

By: Chien-peng Chung

Explores the meaning, scope and repercussion in the drive that a rising China has for institutionalizing multilateral cooperative processes in the Asia-Pacific region, the extent to which its actions are motivated by concerns of politics, economics or security, and the obstacles it faces for so doing.

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Routledge

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1136975632

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Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China

By: Wai-Chung Ho

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Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China

By: Wai-Chung Ho

This book focuses on the rapidly changing sociology of music as manifested in Chinese society and Chinese education. It examines how social changes and cultural politics affect how music is currently being used in connection with the Chinese dream. While there is a growing trend toward incorporating the Chinese dream into school education and higher education, there has been no scholarly discussion to date. The combination of cultural politics, transformed authority relations, and officially approved songs can provide us with an understanding of the official content on the Chinese dream that is conveyed in today’s Chinese society, and how these factors have influenced the renewal of values-based education and practices in school music education in China.

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Springer

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9811075336

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9789811075339

Public Theology in an Age of World Christianity

God’s Mission as Word-Event

By: P. Chung

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Public Theology in an Age of World Christianity

God’s Mission as Word-Event

By: P. Chung

This book aims to rearticulate and reinterpret a Christian concept of God's mission and evangelization in light of the universal, irregular, and transversal horizon of God's narrative as it pertains to the realities of public sphere.

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Springer

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0230106552

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9780230106550

The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing LO,Steven Chung-Fun HUNG,Jeff Hai-Chi LOO,Cody Wai-Kwok YAU

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The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing LO,Steven Chung-Fun HUNG,Jeff Hai-Chi LOO,Cody Wai-Kwok YAU

The introduction of elections to district advisory bodies during the early 1980s was expected to improve the public delivery of services. However, as time passed, electoral politics led to party politics, elite fragmentation and political struggles. Politicization and hyper-politicization in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has brought about a fluctuating pattern between administrative recentralization, the Tsang administration’s attempts at decentralization, and the post-2019 administrative recentralization. The purpose of this book is to study the intertwining relationship between district administration and electoral politics. It also examines the political transformation of District Councils after the promulgation of the National Security Law in late June 2020. Written by experts in the field, this book is a good reference source for readers interested in district elections, politics, and administration in Hong Kong.

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City University of HK Press

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9629376555

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The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T'oegye and Yi Yulgok

A Reappraisal of the 'Four-Seven Thesis' and its Practical Implications for Self-Cultivation

By: Edward Y. J. Chung

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The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T'oegye and Yi Yulgok

A Reappraisal of the 'Four-Seven Thesis' and its Practical Implications for Self-Cultivation

By: Edward Y. J. Chung

This comparative study of Yi T'oegye (1501-1570) and Yi Yulgok (1536-1584), Korea's two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers, is a seminal work on the Four-Seven Debate, the most significant and controversial intellectual event in the Korean Confucian tradition. The Four-Seven thesis, a magnificent example of East Asian Confucian discourse at its best, remains each thinker's masterpiece, a compressed but integrated systemization of metaphysics, ethics, and spirituality. It addresses fascinating philosophical, moral, and psychological questions about the fundamental problem of feelings and emotions, as well as their implications for moral and spiritual self-transformation. This book is indispensable for those interested in Korean thought or intellectual history. It will enable specialists in Confucian studies to understand unique paradigms of Korean Neo-Confucianism. It will stimulate comparative philosophers or religionists and general humanists to consider Korean Neo-Confucianism seriously as a major resource for understanding East Asian philosophy and religion.

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State University of New York Press

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0791499111

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9780791499115

China's New United Front Work in Hong Kong

Penetrative Politics and Its Implications

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo,Steven Chung-Fun Hung,Jeff Hai-Chi Loo

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China's New United Front Work in Hong Kong

Penetrative Politics and Its Implications

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo,Steven Chung-Fun Hung,Jeff Hai-Chi Loo

This book explores the dynamics of China’s new united front work in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese penetrative politics can be seen in the activities of local pro-Beijing political parties, clans and neighborhood associations, labor unions, women and media organizations, district federations, and some religious groups. However, united front work in the educational and youth sectors of civil society has encountered strong resistance because many Hong Kong people are post-materialistic and uphold their core values of human rights, the rule of law and transparency. China’s new united front work in Hong Kong has been influenced by its domestic turn toward “hard” authoritarianism, making Beijing see Hong Kong’s democratic activists and radicals as political enemies. Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” is drifting toward “one country, two mixed systems” with some degree of convergence. Yet, Taiwan and some foreign countries have seen China’s united front work as politically destabilizing and penetrative. This book will be of use to scholars, journalists, and observers in other countries seeking to reckon with Chinese influence.

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Springer

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9811384835

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Split Screen Korea

Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema

By: Steven Chung

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Split Screen Korea

Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema

By: Steven Chung

Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. Notoriously crossing over to the North in 1978, Shin made a series of popular films under Kim Jong-il before seeking asylum in 1986 and resuming his career in South Korea and Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin’s remarkable career. Shin’s films were shaped by national division and Cold War politics, but Split Screen Korea finds surprising aesthetic and political continuities across not only distinct phases in modern South Korean history but also between South and North Korea. These are unveiled most dramatically in analysis of the films Shin made on opposite sides of the DMZ. Chung explains how a filmmaking sensibility rooted in the South Korean market and the global style of Hollywood could have been viable in the North. Combining close readings of a broad range of films with research on the industrial and political conditions of Korean film production, Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles, popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452941513

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9781452941516

Electronics Industry in Taiwan

By: Chung-Shing Lee,Michael Pecht

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Electronics Industry in Taiwan

By: Chung-Shing Lee,Michael Pecht

Taiwan's electronics industry, especially the semiconductor and information products sectors, is characterized by rapid growth and high potential. This book investigates the past performance, current status, and future development of this industry, providing engineers with important data. Corporate business planners and electronics managers will find helpful information for decision making regarding joint ventures and alliances with Taiwanese manufacturers.

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CRC Press

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1000658201

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The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China

The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China

Drawing Boundaries

Drawing Boundaries

Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969

Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969

Between Ally and Partner

Between Ally and Partner

Centrifugal Empire

Centrifugal Empire

An Absent Presence

An Absent Presence

Creativity and Taoism

Creativity and Taoism

China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific

China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific

Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China

Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China

Public Theology in an Age of World Christianity

Public Theology in an Age of World Christianity

The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T'oegye and Yi Yulgok

The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T'oegye and Yi Yulgok

China's New United Front Work in Hong Kong

China's New United Front Work in Hong Kong

Split Screen Korea

Split Screen Korea

Electronics Industry in Taiwan

Electronics Industry in Taiwan

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