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Bureaucracy, Politics, And Decision Making In Post-Mao China

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 Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering among officials on the national, provincial, and local levels. CONTRIBUTORS: Nina P. Halpern Carol Lee Hamrin David M. Lampton Kenneth G. Lieberthal Melanie Manion Barry Naughton Lynne Paine Jonathan D. Pollack Susan L. Shirk Paul E. Schroeder Andrew G. Walder David Zweig This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Kinship Organization In Late Imperial China, 1000-1940

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 One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been marked by great diversity. In the realm of social customs, not only were there broad regional or class differences, but also, at a local level, the people in one village might adopt a different set of practices from those of neighboring communities. Yet the majority of these varied practices seems to have fit within a frame that was distinctly Chinese. Thus scholars must also ask how people of dissimilar occupations and economic interests, living in widely separated parts of the country, came to recognize and act on a common set of cultural beliefs. Explaining the variations in Chinese society requires minute knowledge of local conditions. Explaining the uniformities requires historical understanding of the processes involved in the spread of ideas and practices and the ways by which some came to be considered standard. Given the available sources on Chinese society, neither of these tasks is simple. The study of kinship and kinship organizations provides one of the best ways to approach the coexisting uniformities and variations of Chinese society. This edited volume is the collaboration of historians and social scientists, and this collaboration is required if we are to learn enough about kinship in Chinese society to explain both the uniformities and the variations. The substantive papers are all written by historians, but these historians have raided the stock of anthropological terms, models, and theories, tried to use technical terms in a consistent and well-defined way, implicitly addressed anthropologists on the issues that seem to fascinate them, and responded to the suggestions and criticisms of the anthropologists who have read their papers. At the same time, however, they remain historians and do not ignore the types of issues (such as historical context and change over time) with which historians have always dealt. The editors believe that this type of collaboration has distinct advantages over the more usual approach to transcending disciplinary boundaries by placing articles by historians and social scientists side by side in the same volume. If we have been successful, social scientists should find issues of interest in the chapters, and historians should find them full of the substance of history and not too long-winded in the belaboring the obvious. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Popular Chinese Literature And Performing Arts In The People'S Republic Of China, 1949-1979

by Bonnie S. Mcdougall

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 The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949. Extending beyond fiction to poetry and drama, and covering song, opera, and film as well, these essays reveal a more lively and varied cultural life than that disclosed by studies confined to fiction and literary politics. Rather than stopping at the assumption that art reflects Party or government policy, the essays uncover the traditional roots of popular literature and performing art by employing literary and artistic methods of analysis. While often lacking in appeal to Western audiences, these popular arts nonetheless have their own artistic validity and convey complex meanings to broadly based Chinese audiences. The materials and analyses presented here have social as well as cultural relevance. Variety and change rather than monolithic uniformity have characterized post-1949 cultural bureaucracies, writers, performers, and audiences. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Education And Society In Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

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 Exploring the significance of education to Chinese social, political and intellectual life in late imperial China, this volume contains 15 essays providing a wide-ranging study of China's early education policies.
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Pilgrims And Sacred Sites In China

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 This volume discusses the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites.
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Chinese Historical Microdemography

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 Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. The important issues of fertility, mortality, family structure and migration patterns are examined.
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Printing And Book Culture In Late Imperial China

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 "A very useful book on a topic of growing importance and interest. Brokaw's introduction is one of the most valuable and best-written prefaces to an edited volume that I have encountered in some time."--Kent Guy, author of "The Emperor's Four Treasures"
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The War In Court - Inside The Long Fight Against Torture

by Lisa Hajjar

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Popular Chinese Literature And Performing Arts In The People'S Republic Of China, 1949-1979

by Bonnie S. Mcdougall

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Ordering The World - Approaches To State And Society In Sung Dynasty China

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Kinship Organization In Late Imperial China, 1000-1940

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Chinese Local Elites And Patterns Of Dominance

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Chinese History In Economic Perspective

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Bureaucracy, Politics, And Decision Making In Post-Mao China

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Neo-Confucian Education - The Formative Stage

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Neo-Confucian Education - The Formative Stage

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The Origins Of Chinese Civilization

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The Origins Of Chinese Civilization

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Popular Culture In Late Imperial China

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Popular Culture In Late Imperial China

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Ordering The World - Approaches To State And Society In Sung Dynasty China

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Popular Chinese Literature And Performing Arts In The People'S Republic Of China, 1949-1979

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Chinese History In Economic Perspective

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Orthodoxy In Late Imperial China

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