Contemporary Chinese Studies

This series provides new scholarship and perspectives on modern and contemporary China, including China's contested borderlands and minority peoples; ongoing social, cultural, and political changes; and the varied histories that animate China today.

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Chinese Comfort Women

Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

UBC Press

This is the first English-language book to record the experiences and testimonies of Chinese women abducted and detained as sex slaves in Japanese military “comfort stations” during Japan’s 1931-45 invasion of China.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45

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This book explores the casting of China’s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Chieftains into Ancestors

Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China

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An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China’s minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Merry Laughter and Angry Curses

The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911

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Merry Laughter and Angry Curses investigates the proliferation of late-Qing-era tabloid journalism and the tabloids’ role in subverting the political and intellectual establishment.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Intoxicating Manchuria

Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

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Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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A School in Every Village

Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31

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Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China’s early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Beyond Suffering

Recounting War in Modern China

UBC Press

This collection moves beyond the geopolitical sphere to examine the multiple fronts – personal, social, and institutional – on which wars in modern China have been fought, experienced, and remembered.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Eating Bitterness

New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine

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Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Smokeless Sugar

The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy

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An investigation into the 1936 execution of a Cantonese official leads to a reassessment of regional and national politics and state-led industrialization in Republican China.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Administering the Colonizer

Manchuria’s Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29

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A revisionist history of a unique administrative experiment – the Chinese administration of Manchuria’s Russians in the 1920s – that supports a more nuanced view of Chinese nationalism and China’s relationship with minority cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Art in Turmoil

The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76

Edited by Richard King
UBC Press

This book decodes the rhetoric of China’s turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The New Silk Road Diplomacy

China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War

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The New Silk Road Diplomacy traces how China, faced with internal and external challenges to its authority following the collapse of the Soviet Union, constructed a gradualist approach to Central Asia that prioritized multilateral diplomacy.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Chinese State at the Borders

Edited by Diana Lary
UBC Press

The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Resisting Manchukuo

Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation

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  • Copyright year: 2007
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Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

UBC Press

This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49

UBC Press

A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, this book argues that Nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and China's other border regions was the result of rhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Gutenberg in Shanghai

Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

UBC Press

Gutenberg in Shanghai demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Cult of Happiness

Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China

UBC Press

The Cult of Happiness is among the first studies in any field to treat folk art and folk print as historical text. As such, this richly illustrated volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars in Asian studies, history, art history, folklore and print, as well as anyone having a passion for the creativity and culture of rural society.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Obedient Autonomy

Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life

UBC Press

This anthropological study of Chinese archaeologists shows how the discipline works within a Chinese social structure, and uncovers the complex underpinnings of that context.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Gender and Change in Hong Kong

Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy

UBC Press

This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy, and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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