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"This book maps out the state of China studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history and current status of the study of China, analyses the characteristics of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar, and what factors shaped the development and prospects of Sinology and Chinese Studies in these countries. For the first time, China experts from within and outside of this region, using a wide range of biographical, historical, bibliographical and comparative methodologies, tell the stories of how intellectuals and scholars in selected Southeast Asian countries understand, study, and research China. Their studies are providing different perspectives and discourses on China. Chapters discover and explore common factors such as the presence of sizeable ethnic Chinese communities, historical and current interactions between China and Southeast Asia, and the diverse intellectual influences in the region"--

This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape.Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time.Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China's present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Spellings, Transliterations, and Translations -- Introduction -- 1, The Two Tea Countries A Brief History of the Global Tea Trade -- I. COMPETITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 2. Incense and Industry -- 3. A Crisis of Classical Political Economy in Assam -- 4. After the Great Smash -- 5. No Sympathy for the Merchant? -- II. COOLIES AND COMPRADORS -- Introduction -- 6. Coolie Nationalism -- 7. From Cohong to Comprador -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Consumer Culture in Chinese History -- 2 Inventing Imperial Traditions and Building Olde Shoppes -- 3 Advertising Dreams -- 4 Capturing a National Market -- 5 Crossing Enemy Lines -- 6 Crossing National Borders -- 7 Agents of Consumer Culture -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Archives -- Works Cited -- List of Illustration Credits -- Index

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Romanization -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Enlightenment of the West -- 2 Chuban Ziyou: The Invention of a Neologism -- 3 The Liminal Landscape -- 4 The Intellectual Legacy of Sun Yat-sen -- 5 The Empty Phrase and Popular Ignorance -- 6 Conceptual Debates in the 1920s and 1930s -- 7 The Last Call for Press Freedom -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

"Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China's (618-907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, and Paekche; the state of Parhae in Manchuria; and the Nanzhao and Tibetan kingdoms. Without any one entity able to dominate Asia's geopolitical landscape, the author argues that relations among these countries were quite fluid and dynamic--an interpretation that departs markedly from the prevalent view of China fixed at the center of a widespread "tribute system." To cope with external affairs in a tumultuous world, Tang China employed a dual management system that allowed both central and local officials to conduct foreign affairs. The court authorized Tang local administrators to receive foreign visitors, forward their diplomatic letters to the capital, and manage contact with outsiders whose territories bordered on China. Not limited to handling routine matters, local officials used their knowledge of border situations to influence the court's foreign policy. Some even took the liberty of acting without the court's authorization when an emergency occurred, thus adding another layer to multipolarity in the region's geopolitics. The book also sheds new light on the ideological foundation of Tang China's foreign policy. Appropriateness, efficacy, expedience, and mutual self-interest guided the court's actions abroad. Although officials often used "virtue" and "righteousness" in policy discussions and announcements, these terms were not abstract universal principles but justifications for the pursuit of self-interest by those involved. Detailed philological studies reveal that in the realm of international politics, "virtue" and "righteousness" were in fact viewed as pragmatic and utilitarian in nature."--Publisher's description

In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses. Drawing on unexplored archival materials, readers are introduced to the 'smellscapes' of China from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century via perfumes, food, body odours, public health projects, consumerism and cosmetics, travel literature, fiction and political language. This pioneering and evocative study takes the reader on a sensory journey through modern Chinese history, examining the ways in which the experience of scent and modernity have intertwined

This essential, richly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. Sen fills a striking gap in the study of India and China by tracing their connected histories in a global setting.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Repetition and Magic -- 1. The Economic, China, World History: A Critique of Pure Ideology -- 2. The Economic and the State: The Asiatic Mode of Production -- 3. The Economic as Transhistory: Temporality, the Market, and the Austrian School -- 4. The Economic as Lived Experience: Semicolonialism and China -- 5. The Economic as Culture and the Culture of the Economic: Filming Shanghai -- Afterword -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX