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Change and Persistence in Chinese Culture Overseas
Author | : George William Skinner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Cultural Change and Persistence
Author | : W. Ascher |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2010-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230117333 |
This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic development, whether the latter proceeds primarily from internal or external forces.
The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific
Author | : Anthony Reid |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351892991 |
The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century. The papers include discussions of what it meant to be Chinese, the position of the migrants vis-à-vis China itself, and their relations with indigenous peoples as well as the European powers that came to dominate the region. Together with the introduction, they constitute an important aid to understanding one of the most widespread diasporas of the modern world.
Moving a Mountain
Author | : East-West Center |
Publisher | : Honolulu : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Gender in Motion
Author | : Bryna Goodman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742581349 |
Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China, this book brings these two concepts together, asking how these two categories interacted and produced new social practices and theories. Individual chapters examine agricultural and urban work, travel within China, overseas study, polyandry, the acting profession, courtesan culture, female politicians, Maoist work culture, and the boundaries of virtue and respectability. Governing notions of the social order (and interrelated constructions of gender) changed radically in the modern era—initially with the questioning of the imperial, dynastic order and the creation of a Chinese republic in the early twentieth century, later with the creation of a Communist government and, most recently, with China's political and cultural transformations in the post-Mao era. As ideas and practices of gender have changed, the persistence of older rhetorical signs in the interstices of new political visions has complicated the social projects and understandings of modernity, especially in terms of the creation of new public spaces, new concepts of work and virtue, and new configurations of gender. Contributions by: Madeleine Yue Dong, Bryna Goodman, Gail Hershatter, Ellen R. Judd, Joan Judge, Wendy Larson, Susan Mann, Kenneth L. Pomeranz, Tze-lan Deborah Sang, Matthew H. Sommer, Luo Suwen, Catherine Vance Yeh, and Wang Zheng.
Cultural Realism
Author | : Alastair Iain Johnston |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691213143 |
Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.
Special Studies
Author | : State University of New York at Buffalo. Council on International Studies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : International relations |
ISBN | : |