Chinese Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
1989 People's Movement
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Yidi Wu
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
1989 People’s Movement Introduction The People’s Movement began in mid-April 1989, with gatherings of students in Beijing. They ostensibly tur...
Aesthetics
Cheng Jiang, Zong-Qi Cai
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
AestheticsIntroductionChinese aesthetics is largely a grand reconstructive project. The term “Chinese aesthetics,” usually translated as “study of bea...
Agriculture, Origins of
Tracey L-D Lu
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Origins of Agriculture Introduction Generally speaking, agriculture is defined as a subsistence strategy consisting of systematic cultivations...
Ancestor Worship
Ori Tavor
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Ancestor WorshipIntroductionAncestor worship refers to rituals designed to commemorate and venerate the spirits of one’s deceased forebears. While it ...
Anti-Japanese War
Caroline Rose
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Anti-Japanese WarIntroductionThe Anti-Japanese War 抗日战争 (kangRi zhanzheng), or the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japan 中国人民抗日战争 (Zhongguo...
Architecture, Chinese
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Chinese ArchitectureIntroductionChinese architecture stands in every Chinese province and autonomous region and has been a profound influence on const...
Assertive Nationalism and China's Core Interests
Wenting (Florence) Yang, Suisheng Suisheng (Sam) Zhao
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Assertive Nationalism and China’s Core InterestsIntroductionAfter 2008, many scholars noticed that Beijing became more willing to respond to popular n...
Buddhism
Christoph Anderl, Bart Dessein, Ann Heirman
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
BuddhismIntroductionRoughly two thousand years have passed since Central Asian Buddhists first set foot on Chinese soil. At first restricted to the Ce...
Buddhist Monasticism
Ann Heirman
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Buddhist MonasticismIntroductionIn symbiosis with the laity, Buddhist monasticism has played a major role in the development of Buddhism in China. Sta...
Calligraphy
Amy McNair
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
CalligraphyIntroductionCalligraphy is the art of writing characters with a brush and ink. Yet, the word “calligraphy,” from the Greek kalligraphía (be...
Central-Local Relations
Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Central-Local Relations Introduction According to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, the local administration is divided into...
Ceramics
Ellen Huang
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Ceramics Introduction Since the mid-19th century the scholarship on Chinese ceramics in Western languages and in the Chinese language has proc...
Chiang Kai-shek
Jeremy E. Taylor
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Chiang Kai-ShekIntroductionChiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蔣介石)—also referred to as Chiang Chung-cheng (Jiang Zhongzheng 蔣中正)—is one of the most controv...
Children’s Culture and Social Studies
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Zhenhui Yan, Zitong Qiu
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Children’s Culture and Social StudiesIntroductionThe study of childhood is crucial to understanding contemporary Chinese society and culture. Successi...
China and Africa
May Tan-Mullins
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
China and AfricaIntroductionSince the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, modern China-Africa relations have gone through fluctu...
China and Peacekeeping
Miwa Hirono
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
China and PeacekeepingIntroductionIn the early 1990s the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) began looking beyond traditional war-fighting operatio...
China and the World, 1900-1949
Dong Wang
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
China and the World, 1900–1949 Introduction Thematically and chronologically organized, this highly condensed annotated bibliography includes ...
China's Agricultural Regions
Amy Zader
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
China’s Agricultural Regions Introduction The production of China’s agriculture has been a topic both observed and scrutinized by many within ...
China’s Soft Power
Sheng Ding
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
China’s Soft PowerIntroductionThe concept of “China’s soft power” has become increasingly accepted and studied in the fields of contemporary Chinese p...
China’s West
Y.M. Yeung, Jianfa Shen, Gordon Kee
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
China’s WestIntroductionChina’s west, or the western region, constitutes about two-thirds of the land in the country and twelve provincial or equivale...
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