Gregory Guldin's Books

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

This work focuses on the 19th-century mission conducted by Chinese evangelists among the Hakka, an ethnic minority in south China. The principal part of the text comprises the autobiographies of eight pioneer missionaries who offer insight into village life and customs of the Hakka people.

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated editionthat offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors present contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces of past and present. They trace current and future successes and challenges while placing China in its international contextas a massive, still-developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the greatdifferences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.

The first full-length study of the notion of marriage to Jesus in late medieval and early modern popular culture, this book treats the transmission and transformation of ideas about this concept as a case study in the formation of religious belief and popular culture. Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe provides a history of the dispersion of theology about the bride of Christ in the period between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries and explains how this metaphor, initially devised for a religious elite, became integral to the laity's pursuit of salvation. Unlike recent publications on the bride of Christ, which explore the gendering of sanctity or the poetics of religious eroticism, this is a study of popular religion told through devotional media and other technologies of salvation. Marrying Jesus argues against the heteronormative interpretation that brides of Christ should be female by reconstructing the cultural production of brides of Christ in late medieval Europe. A central assertion of this book is that by the fourteenth century, worldly, sexually active brides of Christ, both male and female, were no longer aberrations. Analyzing understudied vernacular sources from the late medieval period - including sermons, early printed books, spiritual diaries, letters, songs, and hagiographies - Rabia Gregory shows how marrying Jesus was central to late medieval lay piety, and how the 'chaste' bride of Christ developed out of sixteenth-century religious disputes.

Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople, is the focus of this study by Chinese and North American scholars. The study looks at the urbanization process and the vitality of post-reform Chinese society.

This book studies the development of the four fields of anthropology in China. Looking at both the political and social contexts, Greg Guldin demonstrates how political turmoil has shaped China's twentieth century anthropological landscape.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Book's by Gregory Guldin

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900

Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900

China's Geography

China's Geography

Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe

Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe

Farewell to Peasant China

Farewell to Peasant China

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao

Farewell to Peasant China

Farewell to Peasant China

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