Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to remarkable spatial economic transformations in particular areas of the Chinese countryside. The conventional wisdom of existing...

Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform explores the nature and functioning of reform during the nineteenth century of China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911)...

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from...