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New Economy and Innovation in Employment
This translated volume is based on the Chinese publication Green Book of Population and Labor (No. 18). It focuses on the new era of economic growth f...
The Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed annual that covers Chinese Christianity in the areas of Bibli...
Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
"Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from “good fami...
The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy Implications
This 2007 yearbook examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market. After man...
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Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers’ participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong’s recovery of many ...
This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning...
Analysis and Forecast of China's Economy (2008)
This third English volume of The China Economy Yearbook, based on the 2008 annual report in Chinese, provides an in-depth analysis of China’s econom...
Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors
This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddh...
18th International Conference, WASA 2024, Qindao, China, June 21–23, 2024, Proceedings, Part I
International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2010, Wuxi, China, September 17-20, 2010. Proceedings
The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing fo...
Selected Papers on China
Fourteen research papers on traditional China. They form three groups, each mixing discursive pieces with more technical research: books and publishin...
Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbrea...
Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping
The Battle for China’s Spirit is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, focusing on seven major religious groups in China that together accou...
Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction
Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels ...
International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA 2011)
In past twenty years or so, information technology has influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures. Without various IT-based app...
Persons and Literary Sources
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of prev...
China’s May Fourth Project
"For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of ...
Zones of Exception in the Criminal Justice System
In China the coexistence of arbitrary detention and a transition towards a rule of law is either seen as an oxymoron, or as an aberration. This book a...
This is an open access book. As the process of social modernization continues to advance, people realize that the key to social modernization is the m...
Episodes Backward and Forward in Time
Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on thi...
A New History
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a ca...
Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)
Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese...
Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes
""Divorce in China" explores institutional constraints and gendered outcomes of divorce in China"--...
The crucial period of Chinese history, 168-979, falls naturally into contrasting phases. The first phase, also known as that of 'early medieval China,...
Volume I
This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in...
Translocal Practices of the Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a ...
First International Conference, CVM 2012, Beijing, China, November 8-10, 2012, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of CVM 2012, the First International Conference on Computational Visual Media, held in Beijing, China, ...
Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China
In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on ...
The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, transla...
Volume 4
Information engineering and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing information computing, intelligent systems, mathematical mo...
Drawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such t...
An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages
Emphasizing reference works published since 1964, these volumes cover books, periodicals, and inclusions (i.e., chapters in edited volumes) on the 191...
Treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet
The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discuss...
The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China
The personal stories of the Gao villagers demonstrate and are related to changes in China. This is a close study of Gao Village twenty years after the...
This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent developm...