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Women, Property, And Confucian Reaction In Sung And Yuan China (960â€“1368)

by Bettine (University Of Southern California) Birge

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 This 2002 book argues that the Mongol invasion of China in the thirteenth century precipitated a lasting transformation of marriage and property law that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It evaluates the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society.
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Fu Ssu-Nien - A Life In Chinese History And Politics

by Fan-Sen (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Wang

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 Fu Ssu-nien, the Chinese scholar, educator, and political and social critic, was one of the most colorful and influential intellectual figures in twentieth-century China. Wang Fan-sen's biography of Fu's extraordinary life and contributions offers an in-depth look at his role in intellectual and educational development in modern China.
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T'Ao Yuan-Ming: Volume 2, Additional Commentary, Notes And Biography - His Works And Their Meaning

by A. R. Davis

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 All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365â€"427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal integrity and the meaning of man's life.
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Wage Patterns And Wage Policy In Modern China 1919â€“1972

by Christopher Howe

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 The author explains both fluctuations in policy and discrepancies between plans and reality and examines the mechanisms of wage determination. In so doing, he makes it clear that even in a highly planned society there are some limits to what is possible in the regulation of wages and incomes.
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The Bureaucracy Of Han Times

by Hans Bielenstein

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 This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history.
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Land And Lineage In China - A Study Of T'Ung-Ch'Eng County, Anhwel, In The Ming And Ch'Ing Dynasties

by Hilary J. Beattie

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 This is a study of landholding, taxation and social structure in one county of central China that became famous in the Ming and Ch'ing periods for producing great officials and remarkable intellectual traditions. The primary aim of the author is to investigate the composition, organisation and economic basis of the local elite.
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Coal Mining In China'S Economy And Society 1895-1937

by Tim Wright

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 This book provides an important contribution to the economic history of modern China. It examines the history of the coal mining industry - one of China's largest and most important - from the beginnings of modernisation around 1895 to the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
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The Literary Works Of Ou-Yang Hsui (1007â€“72)

by Ronald C. Egan

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 The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested in different genres.
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T'Ao Yuan-Ming: Volume 1, Translation And Commentary - His Works And Their Meaning

by A. R. Davis

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 All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365â€"427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal integrity and the meaning of man's life.
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'The Lament For The South' - Yu Hsin'S 'Ai Chiang-Nan Fu'

by Jr, William T. (Ohio State University) Graham

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 The Ai Chiang-nan fu by the sixth-century poet Yu Hsin deserves study both for its literary merits and for its uniqueness. Dr Graham provides a translation of the poem with a very detailed literary and historical commentary. The book also includes an introduction to the history of the period.
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The Han Rhapsody - A Study Of The Fu Of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.Â€“A.D.18)

by David R. Knechtges

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 An attempt at an analysis in depth of the work of Yang Hsiung (53 BCâ€"AD 18), and of the Fu or rhapsody (a mixture of rhythmical prose passages interspersed with free, rhymed verse).
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The Aristocratic Families In Early Imperial China - A Case Study Of The Po-Ling Ts'Ui Family

by Patricia Buckley (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Ebrey

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 Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. It is commonly accepted that the change from an aristocratic society to a 'meritocracy' was one of the turning points of Chinese history.
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The Hsi-Yu-Chi - A Study Of Antecedents To The Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel

by Glen Dudbridge

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 A study of the early versions of the classic Chinese novel known to readers in English as Monkey. Dr Dudbridge examines a long tradition of earlier versions in narrative and dramatic form through which the great episodic cycle slowly took shape
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Poetry And Politics - The Life And Works Of Juan Chi, A.D. 210â€“263

by Donald Holzman

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 Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210â€"263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life.
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Buddhism Under The T'Ang

by Stanley Weinstein

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 Buddhism Under the Tang is a history of the Buddhist Church during the T'ang dynasty (618â€"907), when Buddhist thought reached the pinnacle of its development.
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Yeh Ming-Ch'En - Viceroy Of Liang Kuang 1852-8

by J. Y. (University Of Sydney) Wong

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 The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of education, endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong.
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Taxation And Governmental Finance In Sixteenth-Century Ming China

by Ray Huang

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 Originally published in 1974, this is a detailed study of the financial administration of the Chinese government during the Ming dynasty (1368â€"1644), with particular attention to the sixteenth century.
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Region And Nation - The Kwangsi Clique In Chinese Politics 1925â€“1937

by Diana Lary

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 A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique which was important both for its interesting internal politics and for its national influence in the late 1920s and the 1930s.
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China And The Overseas Chinese - A Study Of Peking'S Changing Policy: 1949-1970

by Stephen Fitzgerald

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 Originally published in 1972, this is a detailed examination of the policy of the People's Republic of China towards the overseas Chinese.
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Cosmology And Political Culture In Early China

by Aihe (Purdue University, Indiana) Wang

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 This radical reinterpretation of the formative stages of Chinese culture and history traces the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China's early empires. It crosses the disciplines of history, social anthropology, archaeology and philosophy to illustrate how cosmological systems shaped political culture.
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Mourning In Late Imperial China - Filial Piety And The State

by Norman (Syracuse University, New York) Kutcher

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 Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how Qing China's Manchu leaders - unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded - quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
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Liu Tsung-Yuan And Intellectual Change In T'Ang China, 773â€“819

by Jo-Shui (Professor Of History) Chen

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 This study offers an interpretation of the origins of the T'ang-Sung intellectual tradition.
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Tun-Huang Popular Narratives

by Victor H. (University Of Pennsylvania) Mair

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 Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.
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Stone Lake - The Poetry Of Fan Chengda 1126â€“1193

by J. D. (University Of British Columbia, Vancouver) Schmidt

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 Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda, one of the most famous Chinese poets. Along with translations of Fan Chengda's poetry, this 1992 book also contains a biography of the poet and a discussion of his relationship with poets of the generation before him, and discussion of the major themes of his work.
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