Ideas, History, and Modern China

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With China’s economic boom, continuous political stability, and increasing influence, it is time to ask if the trajectories of the Chinese Revolution--its troubled interaction with the world market, its national independence movements, its pursuit of egalitarianism, communism, and socialism, and its post-socialist reform—could be understood as a meaningful and consistent historical experience. It is important now to see how China’s past efforts have contributed or obstructed its progress since the Qing empire was thrust into the international system of nation-states in the late 19th century. This series aims to place the study of China in the contexts of the international system of nation-states, global capitalist and market expansion, imperialist rivalry, the Cold War, and recent waves of economic globalization. It welcomes analytical attempts to frame intellectual, historical, and cultural analysis conducive to dialectical relations between these categories. Ideas will not be studied in the abstract but be set in motion and intertwined with praxis through analysis of historical contexts and enriched by close analysis of aesthetic texts, such as literature, narratives, and phenomena of everyday life.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at Brill, Iulia Ivana.

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Mass Movements of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
A Quantitative Approach
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978-90-04-77505-3
Shifting Boundaries
A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine
Band 35
978-90-04-74623-7
The Market and the Oikos, Vol. III
The Last Western Colony, 1918 – 1948 and Beyond
Band 34
Von: Hans Derks
978-90-04-73829-4
Reshaping China
The Concept of the Chinese Nation in Modern Times
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978-90-04-69690-7
Education and Democracy in China
To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901–1937
Band 31
Von: Zhou Ying
978-90-04-68788-2
Sovietology in Post-Mao China
Aspects of Foreign Relations, Politics, and Nationality, 1980-1999
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Von: Jie Li
978-90-04-54092-7
Negotiating A Chinese Federation
The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China's Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919-1923
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978-90-04-52865-9
The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II
The Peasant and the Nomad in History
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Von: Hans Derks
978-90-04-51376-1
Science and the Confucian Religion of Kang Youwei (1858–1927)
China Before the Conflict Thesis
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978-90-04-46822-1
Confucian Concord
Reform, Utopia and Global Teleology in Kang Youwei's Datong Shu
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978-90-04-43471-4
Remembering May Fourth
The Movement and its Centennial Legacy
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978-90-04-42488-3
Moulding the Socialist Subject
Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
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978-90-04-42352-7
The Ebb and Flow of Chinese Petroleum
A Story Told by a Witness
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Von: Mao Huahe
978-90-04-40273-7
Contending for the "Chinese Modern"
The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949
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978-90-04-39863-4
Postsocialist Conditions
Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008
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978-90-04-38558-0
The Market and the Oikos
The Relationship between Religion and Capitalism in Modern China
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Von: Hans Derks
978-90-04-38391-3
Revolution and Form
Mao Dun's Early Novels and Chinese Literary Modernity
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978-90-04-36485-1
Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
A Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards
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978-90-04-36047-1
Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering
The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries
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Von: Li Li
978-90-04-32355-1
A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune
Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers
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978-90-04-31080-3
Imperial-Time-Order
Literature, Intellectual History, and China’s Road to Empire
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Von: Kun Qian
978-90-04-30930-2
A Modern Miscellany
Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938
Band 12
Von: Paul Bevan
978-90-04-30794-0
The Allure of the Nation
The Cultural and Historical Debates in Late Qing and Republican China
Band 11
Von: Tze-ki Hon
978-90-04-29050-1
Tapestry of Light
Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
Band 10
Von: Yiju Huang
978-90-04-28559-0
Politics of Art
The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China
Band 9
978-90-04-28178-3
Signposts of Self-Realization
Evolution, Ethics and Sociality in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Band 8
Von: Xinmin Liu
978-90-04-26535-6
Culture and Social Transformations
Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context
Band 7
978-90-04-26051-1
Confucian Marxism
A Reflection on Religion and Global Justice
Band 6
978-90-04-25593-7
Gilded Voices
Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949
Band 5
Von: Qiliang He
978-90-04-23244-0
Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War
Chinese Cultural Education at Hong Kong’s New Asia College, 1949-63
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978-90-04-21734-8
Liberal Cosmopolitan
Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity
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978-90-04-19214-0
Ban WANG, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA, is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Literature at Stanford University. He is author of The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China (Stanford, 1997) and Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China (Stanford, 2004).

WANG Hui, Ph.D. (1988), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is author of several works on Chinese intellectual history and issues in contemporary China, including China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (Harvard, 2003).
Series Editors:
Ban Wang, Stanford University, USA
Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, China

Editorial Board:
Yin Zhiguang, Fudan University, China
Ping Zhu, University of California San Diego, USA
Zhang Yongle, Peking University, China
All those interested in intellectual history, literature, aesthetics, or general historical studies of 20th and 21st century China.