Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's lead...

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-cent...

Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history,...

This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or 'Westernized' in...

Mobile Subjects draws attention to modern Korean experiences with mobility, experiences that play...

The essays in this volume are organized into two groups: those that consider the use of historica...

Shanghai's population increased tenfold between 1842 and 1945. The city's sojourners included for...

The contributors offer interpretive readings of a film, a work of plastic art, and an essay, all ...

The essays in this collection, all by Frederic Wakeman's former students, approach the past with ...

What is the Taiwan Strait and why does it matter? The contributors to this volume argue that cros...

This volume explores the introduction of new systems of knowledge in China during the first half ...

The contributors to this volume explore a wide spectrum of issues ranging from the rise of landsc...