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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.

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.