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1.

Culture and Customs of China » Read Now
by Richard Gunde. 260 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture » Read Now
by Wu Dingbo, Patrick D. Murphy. 409 pgs.

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Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most comprehensive and current bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. Each chapter, written by an expert contributor, provides a thorough survey of...
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Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most comprehensive and current bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. Each chapter, written by an expert contributor, provides a thorough survey of research materials and an overview of the most significant points of critical concern. The extensive closing bibliography provides references for topics not treated in the volume.
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Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic » Read Now
by Paul G. Pickowicz, Richard Madsen, Perry Link. 242 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...insiders knowledge of contemporary Chinese culture. The author who succeeds most...century ago, stands outside of Chinese culture in time as well as place. Yet...detached...
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Culture & State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques » Read Now
by Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong, Pauline Yu. 520 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

The contributors re-assess assumptions about state power, and a divide between state and society, in traditional China. The general conclusion is that the state was only one actor in a culture that both elites and commoners could shape.
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Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan » Read Now
by Robert P. Weller. 192 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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China: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture » Read Now
by Chang-tu Hu. 611 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...farther off were the "barbarians." Chinese culture spread and many of the barbarians...dynasties managed to preserve Chinese culture and develop the resources of...618-906...
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China: A Short Cultural History » Read Now
by C. P. Fitzgerald, C. G. Seligman. 618 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Chinese Art and Culture » Read Now
by Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis Vinograd. 442 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This volume provides an illustrated introduction to 7000 years of Chinese art - from Neolithic pottery and jade to contemporary video, installation and performance media.
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The Spirit of Chinese Culture » Read Now
by Francis C. M. Wei. 188 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...THE SPIRIT OF CHINESE CULTURE THE SPIRIT OF CHINESE CULTURE By FRANCIS C. M. WEI 1947 CHARLES SCRIBNERS...PREFACE IX CHAPTER I CHRISTIANITY AND CHINESE CULTURE 1...
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Under the Ancestors' Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality » Read Now
by Francis L. K. Hsu. 322 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...THE ANCESTORS SHADOW Chinese Culture and Personality BY FRANCIS...further studies of the unity of Chinese culture, which I am convinced that...supposition as is the...
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In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture » Read Now
by Geremie R. Barme. 512 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
12.

Tea in China: The History of China's National Drink » Read Now
by John C. Evans. 169 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Tea is one of the world's most popular beverages after water, and the birthplace of tea is China. Until the 1830s, China was the only producer of tea, and today it remains the world's greatest producer and consumer. Tea in China is a history of China's national drink, where it came from, how it was...
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Tea is one of the world's most popular beverages after water, and the birthplace of tea is China. Until the 1830s, China was the only producer of tea, and today it remains the world's greatest producer and consumer. Tea in China is a history of China's national drink, where it came from, how it was drunk, and the place it has occupied in Chinese society from prehistory to the present. Along the way, Evans looks at the myths surrounding the development of tea. The preferences of the various dynasties are examined, as are changes within the industry as well as the place of tea within Chinese society.
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Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China » Read Now
by Tao Tao Liu, David Faure. 212 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...parts of China would be considered common Chinese culture. What passes as Chinese culture, on the other hand, is manifested differently...conclusion comes rather naturally...
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Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers » Read Now
by Stevan Harrell. 371 pgs.

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China's Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China's Kazaks » Read Now
by Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg. 251 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A growing interest in China's borderlands accelerated after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, which brought independence to new states like Kazakhastan as well as a new configuration of power to Central Eurasia. Despite renewed interest in the region and its peoples, information on the Kazakhs...
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A growing interest in China's borderlands accelerated after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, which brought independence to new states like Kazakhastan as well as a new configuration of power to Central Eurasia. Despite renewed interest in the region and its peoples, information on the Kazakhs, and particularly on the Kazakhs living in China, has remained limited. This new study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent field-work, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazakh history and culture, emphasizing the Kazakhs in twentieth century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities.
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