Contemporary Chinese Studies

Intoxicating Manchuria : Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how huge intoxicant industries...

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbal...

Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria

For centuries, some of the world's largest empires fought for sovereignty over...

Yuan Shikai : A Reappraisal

Statesman or warlord? Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been both hailed as China’s ...

Obedient Autonomy : Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom ...

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness : Political Exile and Re-education in Mao's China

Not Just a Man’s War : Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

Sporting Gender : Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athlet...

Beyond the Amur : Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the...

Saving the Nation Through Culture : The Folklore Movement in Republican China

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement burst onto the scene at National Peking U...