Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of “word-meaning,” and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a “language crisis. ”

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of writings on military philosophy in early China.

Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China.

Considers the role of hiddenness in the history of cultural production in premodern China.

Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.

Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.

Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.

David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.

The career of communist revolutionary Wei Baqun, one of China’s “three great peasant leaders” and man of the southern frontier.

Challenges traditional views of the Qin dynasty as an oppressive regime by revealing cooperative aspects of its governance.

Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.

An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.

An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments were put forth in the royal courts of early China.

The first book-length study in English of the Chinese classic, the Li sao (Encountering Sorrow). Includes translations of the Li sao and the Nine Songs.

A fascinating look at Chinese perceptions of the United States and the cultural and political background that informs them.

A wide-ranging exploration of traditional Chinese views of mortality.

A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.

Depicts the Cultural Revolution through stories in a variety of voices.

An exploration of Chinese during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.

Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China’s Han dynasty.

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China’s early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

Provides an overview of some of the great texts of Asian philosophy and religion along with an exploration of the contexts in which they arose.

Brings Chinese Daoist and Confucian thought into conversation with Western process, pragmatic, and naturalist philosophy and theology.

Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Presents the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of historian and classicist Qiao Zhou.

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Examines China’s attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.

A reappraisal of Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, finding that his legacy provided the foundation for the celebrated civilization of the Tang dynasty.

Discusses interpretations of the Yijing (the I Ching or Book of Changes) during the Northern Song period and how these illuminate the momentous changes in Chinese society during this era.

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

A diverse collection of interpretive essays on the third-century B. C.E. Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, which continues the long commentarial tradition on this work and underscores its relevance to our own time and place.

The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.

Presents historical, ritual, and musical data preserved in authentic Ming documents illustrating the significance of state sacrifices in imperial China.

Lu Xun (1881-1936), China's greatest modern writer, remains important today both as an official icon and a patron saint of dissent. This book deals with Lu Xun's struggle to make sense of the "Darwinian Revolution." It illuminates not only Lu Xun's thought, but also the current crisis in Chinese thought caused by the loss of faith in Marxism.

Argues that the legitimacy of the Chinese government relies on two factors: the national myth of revolution and ideological orthodoxy.

Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type of analysis based on a psychoanalytic theory of the symbol.

The leading proponent in America of the Wu style discusses the spiritual and aesthetic meanings of t'ai chi ch'uan.

An anthropological study of the social organization and local history in Lukang, a city in Taiwan.

Traces the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, exploring the conversion of China's policymakers to capitalist economic thinking.

This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of government recruitment.

This is the most extensive study of Chin dynasty history in any language. It demonstrates the importance of cultural developments in North China under the Chin (1115-1234).

"Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." — Confucius

Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as ...

Isabelle Robinet's Taoist Meditation is the first and only scholarly study to discuss the ancient Mao-shan Taoist tradition of visionary meditation while, at the same time, helping to clarify the little ...

This is the first and only book in English on modern Chinese Buddhism written by a practicing Chinese monk. Chen-hua provides a rare eyewitness account of Chinese monastic life and Buddhist practices ...

This is the first comprehensive anthology of the Chinese sexology classics, the world's oldest and most advanced tradition of sexual yoga. While remaining accessible to the general reader, the translation ...

In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide ...

This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence—warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the ...

This is the first book ever published in the West on drama in the People's Republic of China. The plays, playwrights, theories, and performances range from the play that inflamed the Cultural Revolution ...

The material in this book is framed and organized through the themes of world system's theory -- such as incorporation, commercialization of agriculture, industrialization, proletarianization, and the ...

The post-Mao commitment to modernization, coupled with a general revulsion against the lawlessness of the Cultural Revolution, has led to a significant law reform movement in the People's Republic of ...