Gu is an independent scholar and researcher who worked as a Chinese diplomat in the Middle East, and she has written this volume on Chinese law and politics in order to show how modern legal concepts
Between the end of the Tang empire about 907 and the rise of the Northern Song dynasty in 960, five dynasties vied for power at the core where China had been, so the period is called Five Dynasties pe
Zaifu (Chinese literature, City U. of Hong Kong) offers a cultural critique of two Chinese classics, The Water Margin and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In particular, he raises questions about th
Yecao (Wild Grass, or Weeds) was first published in 1927, says Kaldis, and is the only collection of modern style poetry by Lu Xun (1881-1936), widely acknowledged as 20th-century China's foremost lit
This volume investigates the catalogs that detail and classify manuscripts of Chinese Buddhist texts and explores their importance in the formation and transformation of the Chinese Buddhist canon and
Wang (contemporary Chinese studies, U. of Nottingham) argues that economic growth and social modernization in East Asia have led to a growing pro-democratic public, which is preparing solid foundation
Hip hop was developed by inner-city African-American youths in their struggles to deal with the negative consequences of their societal arrangements. The genre in its many cultural expressions is now
Connolly (English, Suffolk U., UK) discusses how the theatrical persona can be part of a nation's culture and how what a performer does can be taken as representations of that culture. He investigates
Trotman, retired as a professor of sociology, policy studies, and gender studies at Edith Cowan U., Perth, Australia, discusses the subjective experiences of becoming and being a female teacher throug
This book introduces the resources of contemporary social system theory, as pioneered by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann and associated theorists. Luhmann's theory is very different from the gen
Tuan (humanities and social sciences, National Chiao Tung U., Taiwan) considers alternative theater in Taiwan in terms of feminism and interculturalism through a description of its history and an exam
