1中国科技绘图史

Picturing Technology inChina: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century

Peter J. Golas

Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. His main theme is that technological drawings developed in a different way inChinafrom in the West largely because they were made by artists rather than by specialist illustrators or practitioners of technology. He examines the techniques of these artists, their use of painting, woodblock prints and the book, and what their drawings reveal about changing technology in agriculture, industry, architecture, astronomical, military, and other spheres. The text is elegantly written, and the images, about100 inall, are carefully chosen. This is likely to appeal to both scholars and general readers.

2文化南方与中古诗歌

Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry

Edited by Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams

From ancient times,China's remote and exotic South—a shifting and expanding region beyond theYangtze River—has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medievalChina, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also a place of richness and fascination, and for some a site of cultural triumph over exile. The eight essays in this collection explore how tensions between pride in southern culture and anxiety over the alien qualities of the southern frontier were behind many of the distinctive features of medieval Chinese literature. They examine how prominent writers from this period depicted themselves and the South in poetic form through attitudes that included patriotic attachment and bitter exile. By the Tang dynasty, poetic symbols and clichés about the exotic South had become well established, though many writers were still able to use these in innovative ways.

Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry is the first work in English to examine the cultural south in classical Chinese poetry. The book incorporates original research on key poets, such as Lu Ji, Jiang Yan, Wang Bo, and Li Bai. It also offers a broad survey of cultural and historical trends during the medieval period, as depicted in poetry. The book will be of interest to students of Chinese literature and cultural history.

3中国通商口岸：外国人在华各地之活动

China's Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence inChinain the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1943

Robert Nield

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them—the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers duringChina’s century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943—a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation.

China’s Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared inChinaduring the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China’s Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modernChina. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabitedChina’s treaty port world.

4文化事业：中国与东南亚的文化企业家

The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs inChinaandSoutheast Asia, 1900-65

Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland

The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rich in biographical detail, the interlinked case studies featured in this volume introduce three distinct archetypes: the cultural personality, the tycoon, and the collective enterprise. The studies include Law Bun, a Hong Kong pulp fiction and film magnate, Aw Boon Haw, the "tiger" behind the Tiger Brand pharmaceutical company, and the Shaw Brothers, filmmakers who drew thousands of people out each night to watch movies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, and beyond. These portraits reveal how rapidly evolving technologies and growing transregional ties created fertile conditions for business success in the cultural sphere. They also highlight strategies used by cultural entrepreneurs around the world today.

5萤屏上的腐败：中国的电视与政治

Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics

Ruoyun Bai

In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly popular corruption dramas that riveted the nation. Staging Corruption looks at the rise, fall, and reincarnation of corruption dramas and the ways in which they express the collective dreams and nightmares ofChinain the market-reform era. It also considers how these dramas — as products of the interplay between television stations, production companies, media regulation, and political censorship — unveil complicated relationships between power, media, and society. This book will be essential reading for those followingChina’s ongoing struggles with the highly volatile socio-political issue of corruption.

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Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity

Franck Billé

Sinophobia is a groundbreaking study of the anti- Chinese sentiments currently widespread inMongolia. Graffiti calling for the removal of Chinese dot the urban landscape, songs about killing the Chinese are played in public spaces, and rumors concerning Chinese plans to take over the country and exterminate the Mongols are rife. Such violent anti-Chinese feelings are frequently explained as a consequence ofChina’s meteoric economic development, a cause of much anxiety forMongolia, a large but sparsely populated country that is rich in mineral resources. Other analysts point to centuries of hostility between the two groups, implying unbridgeable cultural differences.

Franck Billé challenges these reductive explanations. He argues that anti-Chinese sentiments are not a new phenomenon but go back to the late socialist period (1960–1990) whenMongolia’s political and cultural life was deeply intertwined withRussia’s. Billé shows how stereotypes of the Chinese emerged through an internalization of Russian ideas ofAsia. He argues that the anti-Chinese attitudes of Mongols reflect an essential desire to distance themselves fromAsiaoverall and to reject their own Asianness. The spectral presence ofChina, imagined to be everywhere and potentially in everyone, thus produces a pervasive climate of mistrust, suspicion, and paranoia.