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Books in the Harvard East Asian Series series

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    - The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
    by Leo Ou-fan Lee
    £45.49

    Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng.

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    £32.99

    The cultural and literary flowering known as the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.

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    by Henry DeWitt Smith
    £34.99

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    by Holmes Welch
    £84.99

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    - The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913
    by Edward Rhoads
    £39.99

  • - Yen Fu and the West
    by Benjamin I. Schwartz
    £29.99

    Yen Fu spent years translating and commenting on the work of Western thinkers like Spencer, Huxley, Adam Smith, Mill, and Montesquieu. Schwartz examines the modifications and consequent revaluation of these familiar works as they were presented to their new audience and analyzes the impact of this Western thought on the Chinese culture of the time.

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    - Management and Workers in Modern Japan
    by Kunio Odaka
    £25.99

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    - An Intellectual Biography
    by Joey Bonner
    £65.49

    In this biography of brilliant Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei, Bonner throws light on the range and course of ideas in early 20th-century China. She critically examines Wang's essays on German philosophy and aesthetics; his poetry, literary criticism, and aesthetic theory; and his works on ancient Chinese history, particularly of the Shang dynasty.

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    - American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937
    by James C. Thomson
    £29.99

  • by Hue-Tam Ho Tai
    £58.49

    No detailed description available for "Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam".

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    - Guangdong under Reform
    by Ezra F. Vogel
    £22.99

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    - Zheijang Province in the Early Twentieth Century
    by R. Keith Schoppa
    £40.99

    Schoppa divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones by level of political and economic development and scrupulously analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels. He reveals the common factors that make China a part of the worldwide story of reconstruction, reform, and developmental change.

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    by Binyan Liu
    £32.99

    This book-written in one man's eloquent voice-is testimony to his belief that the need for democratic reform has taken root among the Chinese people and that they will ultimately take steps to transform their nation.

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