by admin | Apr 5, 2015 | Member Publications
In The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China’s social and political...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Member Publications
Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Member Publications
The Yellow Mountains (Huang shan) of China’s Anhui Province have been famous for centuries as a place of scenic beauty and inspiration for poets, painters, and travelers, and remain a hugely popular tourist destination today. A “golden age” of Yellow Mountains travel...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Member Publications
Charles Egan is Professor of Chinese and Director of the Chinese Flagship Partner Program at San Francisco State University. His recent book Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China was awarded the Asian translation prize from the American...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Member Publications
This new series “Women and Gender in China Studies” is edited by Professor Grace S. Fong. It aims to publish theoretically-informed, source-based scholarship on women and gender issues in China studies. Manuscript submissions may range in...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Member Publications
After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the rise of a vernacular language movement, most scholars and writers declared the classical Chinese poetic tradition to be dead. But how could a longstanding high poetic form simply grind to a halt, even in the face...
