Books by Hanchao Lu

Documents China's 1911 Revolution through Stafford's photographic eye. This book features photographs that set in historical and cultural context through an interpretive introduction and extensive captions.

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich.

This is a comprehensive study of beggars' culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a reference to the resurgence of beggars in China today.