Chinese Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Chinese Alchemy
Fabrizio Pregadio
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
Chinese AlchemyIntroductionChinese alchemy has a history of more than two thousand years. It is divided into two main branches, known as Waidan 外丹, or...
Chinese Communist Party Since 1949, The
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
The Chinese Communist Party since 1949 Introduction During the 1950s and 1960s, the study of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was an importan...
Chinese Communist Party to 1949, The
Tony Saich, Nancy Hearst
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
The Chinese Communist Party to 1949 Introduction There is a vast array of materials available to assist in the study of the Chinese Communist ...
Chinese Diaspora, The
Hong Liu, Els van Dongen
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
The Chinese Diaspora Introduction The Chinese diaspora is an interdisciplinary research topic par excellence. Located at the intersection of t...
Chinese Nationalism
James Leibold
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Chinese NationalismIntroductionNationalism is an analytical chameleon that belies a range of communal cleavages (spatial, class, ethnic, kinship, and ...
Chinese Script, The
Imre Galambos
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
The Chinese Script Introduction The Chinese script is one of the most important achievements of Chinese civilization and has played a vital ro...
Christianity in China
Charles W. Hayford
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Christianity in China Introduction In the early 21st century, Christianity in China is a diverse, growing, and small but resilient force. Esti...
Classical Confucianism
Paul R. Goldin
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Classical ConfucianismIntroductionAs one of the oldest and most widespread belief systems in East Asia, Confucianism has meant different things to dif...
Collective Agriculture
Robert Ash
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Collective AgricultureIntroductionSocialization was a hallmark of China’s economic strategy from the early 1950s onward, and the collective organizati...
Confucius
Jeffrey L. Richey
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
ConfuciusIntroductionKongzi 孔子 (Master Kong) was born Kong Qiu 孔丘 in Lu 鲁 (now central and southwestern Shandong 山东 Province in China), a small vassal...
Confucius Institutes
Yu Tao, Jiayi Wang
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Confucius InstitutesIntroductionConfucius Institutes are a cluster of non-profit educational organizations that promote the Chinese language and cultu...
Consumer Society
Yanrui Wu
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Consumer Society Introduction Since the economic reforms beginning in 1978 and the “open door” policy that followed, consumer society in China...
Contemporary Chinese Art Since 1976
Amanda Wangwright
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Contemporary Chinese Art Since 1976 Introduction Although the precise moment of the inception of contemporary Chinese arts remains debatable, ...
Corruption
Ling Li
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
CorruptionIntroductionCorruption is a challenging subject to study, for three reasons. First, the conceptual contours of “corruption” are fuzzy, leavi...
Criticism, Traditional
Marie Bizais-Lillig
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Traditional Criticism Introduction “Traditional Criticism” is a label that deserves some explanation. By “Traditional China” is meant the ling...
Cross-Strait Relations
Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Cross-Strait RelationsIntroductionBetween 1949 and 1979, the study of the relations across the Taiwan Strait concentrated on the contentious and somet...
Cultural Revolution
Yiching Wu
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Cultural RevolutionIntroductionThe Cultural Revolution, launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and ended with the close of the Mao era in 1976, was the most p...
Daoism
Alan K. L. Chan
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Daoism Introduction The term “Daoism” or “Taoism” denotes one of the major religions of China. In some sources it also designates an intellect...
Daoist Canon
Fabrizio Pregadio
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Daoist CanonIntroductionThe term daozang 道藏, commonly rendered as “Daoist Canon,” originally referred to collections of texts kept in Daoist establish...
Deng Xiaoping
Delia Davin
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Deng XiaopingIntroductionDeng Xiaoping became China’s effective leader in 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong. He formally retired in 1992 b...
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