In today's world, both cultures and societies are changing more quickly than ever before.
The Fourth Edition of “Cultures and Societies in a Changing World” sheds light on the role …

In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in
China during the late Qing period, between China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in …

This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on
modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war”(The Wall Street Journal). In …

Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation
of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist …

This book examines China's creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising,
design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture …

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin
International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide …

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-
Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction …

Cantonese is the only dialect of Chinese which has developed a widely known and used
written form. It has played a role in publishing in the Guangdong region since the late Ming …

Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's
leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the …

" This book is at the forefront of the next generation of scholarship on early 20th century
China. Lean makes a number of important claims about sentiment and modernity, puts …