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Offers a nuanced discussion of domestic disorder, considering the sources of social dissidence, the varieties of domestic rebellion, the responses of the state and society to such uprisings, and the consequences of rebellion and suppression for a dynasty already shaken by foreign invasion.

Almost forty years after it happened, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident brings together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it.

Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. The Economy of Communist China reviews selected aspects of this economic transformation.

The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the most violent manifestation of that contradiction. This volume collects papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968.

Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity. It is now possible for beginning researchers to start with some shared basic knowledge of research aids and documentary resources. This research guide is meant to provide that knowledge.

Understanding Shanghai's January Revolution provides us with an opportunity to develop better our more abstract, theoretical understanding of the functioning of the Chinese political system and the dynamics of the social system in which it operates.

Argues that while many competing positions can coexist in the same person, the seeds of the positive, instrumental value of individual autonomy in Chinese inquiry are beginning to compete in both scholarly and popular culture with other, older approaches.

Traditionally, criticism of plays from the Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368) has been dominated by the so-called poetic and socialist schools. Double Jeopardy instead rigorously evaluates a group of plays by aesthetic criteria generated from within the works themselves.

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of Manchuria. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration.

Reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, and their perception that their skills were underutilized.

Presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch'un-ch'uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsuan-ho era. The Hua-chi is a history of painting written as a sequel to two earlier histories.

With the establishment of the Ming dynasty, a major historical tension rose into prominence between more absolutist and less absolutist modes of rulership. This produced a distinctive style of rule that modern students have come to call Ming despotism. It proved a capriciously absolutist pattern for Chinese government into our own time.

Counters the notion that traditional family patterns are weakened by forces such as economic development and social revolutions. China has experienced wrenching changes on both the economic and the political fronts, yet from the evidence presented here the tradition of filial respect and support for aging parents remains alive and well.