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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...	Date： 2012 Chiang Kai-shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History Author(s)： Huang Tzu-chin Abstract： This book examines the relationship between China and Japan through the experiences of Chiang Kai-shek, with special focus on the interactions between Chiang, Japan, and the Chinese Communist Party (C...
Date： 2012 Domination and Disintegration: Communist Revolution in Hebei, 1921–1949 Author(s)： CHEN, YAO-HUANG Abstract： The Chinese Communist Party was born in a divided Chinese society. As a result, the Party could not exert dominance by the power of organization from the top down, nor did it want to be engulfed by th...	Date： 2012 Institutional Transplantation: The Chinese Lawyers in Republican Shanghai (1912–1937) Author(s)： SUN, HUEI-MIN Abstract： This book examines the development of Western-style Chinese lawyers in early Republican Shanghai. It explores how various political and social forces wrestled and negotiated with one another to ensure...
Date： 2012 After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924 Author(s)： Peter Zarrow Abstract： After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924 begins with the following question: How was it that Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor and imagined a radically...	Date： 2011 Ruling All under Heaven with Filial Piety:The Xiaojing in Late Imperial China Author(s)： LU, MIAW-FEN Abstract： This monograph examines the relationship between the Xiaojing (The Classic of Filial Piety) and the political and social culture of late imperial China. Taking the diverse nature of the Xiaojing into ...

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