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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tsu, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937, 2005

of China’s $40 billion “Olympic moment,” its citizens seem reluctant to let go ... in which nations like China seek redemption in the failures of the past, ... to evaluate cultural narratives of nation-building during China’s tumultuous ...