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A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelu Xiangwen
Wu Yingzhe and Juha Janhunen
INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents. The texts are reproduced in the original script, in transcription as well as in facsimile, and are supported by a preliminary translation, linguistic comments and index. This is the first ever critical edition of Khitan texts, and the two epigraphic documents analysed in the volume constitute a substantial addition to the extant corpus of Khitan Small Script materials.
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Sharing the Contested Ground
Beth Meriam
KEY FEATURE(S) This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of ‘ethnic’ China’s changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a ‘Tibetan’ autonomous area (Trindu). This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice.
The 1980s social and economic ‘reform and opening up’ in China has involved limited devolution of power, the localization of fiscal responsibilities and a relaxation of many ‘cultural’ and some ‘relig... |
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Part 1: The Pre-Islamic Period
Edited with an Introduction by Valerie Hansen
YALE UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first of two two-volume collections by top scholars in their field on the history of the Silk Road. This collection’s main focus is the first millennium CE when the Silk Road trade was at its height.
Most of the entries are organized chronologically and geographically, concentrating on the sites (like Niya and Loulan) which flourished in the third and fourth centuries, then Turfan and Samarkand (5... |
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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
By the early twentieth century, decades of conflict and underinvestment had ruined the Chinese economy and attempts by the Guomindang Nationalists to develop industry and trade had hardly begun when J... |
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Akos B. Apatoczky
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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Islam has had a presence in China since the earliest years of the religion, initially with the sojourner populations of traders and diplomats from the heartland of the Islamic world on the periphery o... |
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Arthur W. Hummel
KEY FEATURE(S) Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the single indispensable reference tool for Chinese history since 1644. It was first published in 1943-44.
Contributors include: K Biggerstaff, H Dubs, JK Fairbank, Fang Chao-ying, LC Goodrich, Hu Shih, T Numata, E Swisher, Teng Ssu-yu, CM Wilbur, H Wilhelm Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the sing... |
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EDITED by Sidney D. Gamble, J. S. Burgess
KEY FEATURE(S) Conducted under the auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men’s Christian Association, this survey collected vast quantities of data from September 1918 to December 1919, through questionnaires aimed at cross-sections of the local population.
Conducted under the auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men’s Christian Association, this survey collected vast quantities of data from September 1918 to Decembe... |
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Chiang Kai-Shek
KEY FEATURE(S) Chiang’s classic work, first published 1947, examines the challenges facing the modernisation of China from the humiliation of the unequal treaties through the struggles of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ivan Zakharov
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