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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe

Ramaswamy Sumathi

ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...

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Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Marcon Federico

ISBN: PB: 9780226479033, ISBN: HB: 9780226251905, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones, 2 tables

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...

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History

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Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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Political Science

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Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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Learning from Shenzhen China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

O'Donnell Mary Ann, Wong Winnie, Bach Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226401126, ISBN: HB: 9780226401096, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transform...

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Anthropology

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Inheritance of Loss China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire

Koga Yukiko

ISBN: PB: 9780226412139, ISBN: HB: 9780226411941, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With "Inherita...

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Law and the Economy in Colonial India

Roy Tirthankar, Swamy Anand V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226387642, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 15 tables

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enfor...

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Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China

Merkel-Hess Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...

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History

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Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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