Chinese History

This book is the first in English to provide a comprehensive overview of the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-976). It shows that the Southern Tang was the key Chinese state of this period, preserving cultural values and artefacts from the former great Tang dynasty (618-907) which were to form the basis o..

This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, focusing on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. Drawing on archival findings, newspapers, magazines and interviews, the book delves into changes in Chinese popular imagination and everyd..

Despite the rich heritage of numerous complaint systems in Chinese history, most Western as well as Chinese studies of one or more complaint systems in the PRC and earlier periods have paid little systematic attention to the origins, development, practices, impact, and nature of similar institutions..

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong. It puts forward a different view, demonstrating that the compradors were active participants, not just passive servants of foriegn companies...

This book examines the four waves of Chinese student migration to the United States since the late 1970s, showing how they were shaped by the profound changes in both nations and by US-China relations. It also discusses how student migrants with high socioeconomic status transformed Chinese American..

This book examines the four waves of Chinese student migration to the US since the 1970s, showing how they were shaped by profound changes in both nations and by US-China relations. By analysing increasing return and circular migration since the mid-1990s it revises the traditional model of studying..

Modern studies of civil-military relations recognise that the military is separate from civil society, with its own norms and values, principles of organisation and regulations. Key issues of concern include the means by which – and the extent to which – the civil power controls the military; and al..

Modern studies of civil-military relations recognise that the military is separate from civil society, with its own norms and values, principles of organisation and regulations. Key issues of concern include the means by which – and the extent to which – the civil power controls the military; and al..

Presenting compelling case study material, international specialists examine the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China during a tumultuous time in the country’s history and reassesses the significance of labour process theory in the context of the changing Chinese workplace...

This study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927)...

First published in 1906, this volume emerged three years after the British expedition across the Alps to Lhasa, in which the author took part, and provided a first-hand British account of the mission...

This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism...