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Silbey, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, 2012
Game in China. New York Hill and Wang, 2012. 304 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ... Rebellion and the Great Game in China In early December 1899, the American minister in China, E. H. Conger, received a breathless and terrifying ...
Dikotter, The Discourse of Race in Modern China, 1992.
China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992. xiv + 251 pp. ... (paper), I SBN 978-0-8047-1994-0. Reviewed by: Ralph A. Litzinger, Duke ... politics in late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It has ...
Seung-joon Lee, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton, 2011
Reviews Reviews- Pre-1949 China Topic: Culture Economics Health Politics ... of Its Calories: Rice and Modernity in Canton During China ... late imperial China. The second half focuses on the Guomindang ...
Bakken, ed. Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China, 2005.
of China's economic expansion has been well told, the dramatic changes ... Børge Bakken, ed. Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China. Lanham: Rowman ... beyond the Great Wall: Crime and Punishment in China When President Richard ...
Meyer-Fong, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th century China, 2013
with Civil War in 19th century China. Stanford Stanford University Press, ... and tactics to examine the social, economic, political, and even cultural ... the Taiping Rebellion in nineteenth-century China. While there is no indication ...
Isett, State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862, 2007
perspective on China's pre-industrial economic history. According to them, ... for EH.NET by Peer Vries, Institute for Economic and Social History, ... at the University of Minnesota and a specialist in the economic history of ...
Kiely, The Compelling Ideal- thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (January 1, 2014)
and the Prison in China, 1901-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 416 pp. ... China’s sovereignty, but a number of foreign powers agreed to abolish extraterritoriality if China pursued modernizing reforms of its legal and penal ...
Svensson, Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History, 2002
January 1, 2002 Marina Svensson. Debating Human Rights in China ... is that it is not a history of human rights in modern China. Nor does it go into much detail ... also is largely silent about foreign criticism of China's human ...
Tracy and Rangow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West, 2003.
and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. New York ... that occurred around the same time in Western Europe, Russia, and China. The work ... Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and China specifically contribute to the debate ...
Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, 2008
the invention and early use of gunpowder in China and shows that the Chinese also ... was a pioneer in this kind of warfare. Perhaps one could call China under the Ming the first "gunpowder empire“. But the firm control of China by the Ming ...