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Date： 2016 If It’s Not Dirty, It’s No Joke: Humor, Desire, and the Body in Chinese Masculinity Author(s)： Huang Ko-wu Abstract： This study deals with the mentality of Chinese men from the late imperial era to the modern period. The author uses joke books, popular songs, erotic novels, and other materials from the Ming-Qing per...	Date： 2016 The New History of Modern China Written by Scholars Across the Taiwan Strait Author(s)：社會科學文獻出版社 Abstract： This four-volume, organized by the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica in Taipei, represents the results of...
Date： 2015 Shaping the New Man: CCP Propaganda and Soviet Experiences Author(s)： Yu Miin-ling Abstract： Based on the perspectives of politics, foreign relations, culture and society, this book explores what the Chinese Communist Party learned from Soviet experiences of utilizing novels, textbooks, songs...	Date： 2015 Merchants and Chinese Communist Revolution, 1919-1927 Author(s)： Li Ta-chia Abstract： This book is arguably the first monograph to offer an in-depth view of relations between the Chinese Communist Party and merchants, thereby shedding new light on the CCP’s early history. In contrast ...
Date： 2014 Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity Author(s)： Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Abstract： Neither Donkey nor Horse aims to answer one question: How was Chinese medicine transformed from an antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol and vehicle for China&rsq...	Date： 2014 In Search of Western Learning: A History of Reading in Late Qing China, 1833-1898 Author(s)： Pan Kwang-che Abstract： In what is the first Chinese-language monograph on the history of reading, Pan Kwang-che draws on case studies to meticulously reconstruct how late Qing literati engaged with Western knowledge during ...
Date： 2014 Religion in China and its Modern Fate Author(s)： PAUL R. KATZ Abstract： This study explores processes of change that shaped the fate of Chinese religion during the last decade of the Qing dynasty and the entire Republican era. It endeavors to place religion at the core of...	Date： 2014 Emperor Qianlong's Purse: Imperial Household Finance in Eighteenth Century China Author(s)： LAI, HUI-MIN Abstract： This book elaborates on the financial aspects if Emperor Qianlong’s reign in the 18th century, while also exploring how religion and commerce were employed to solve China’s long-term frontier troubl...
Date： 2013 Her Trials: Contextualizing Loyalty and Disloyalty in Modern China from the Gendered Nationalist Perspective Author(s)： Lo Jiu-jung Abstract： This book uses the wartime stories of five women to illustrate how questions of loyalty and disloyalty were woven into the nationalist discourses pivotal to modern Chinese conceptions of the state and...	Date： 2013 Urban Pleasures:Leisure Consumption and Spatial Transformation in Jiangnan Cities during the Ming-Qing Period Author(s)： Wu Jen-Shu Abstract： Urban Pleasures focuses on the diversity of leisure, shopping activities, and spaces that marked urban lifestyles and life experiences from the mid-Ming to the mid-Qing. It considers the concept of &l...

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