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Golden-silk smoke : a history of tobacco in China 1550-2010

Obrazy
Autor
Carol Benedict
Place of publication
Berkeley
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi

Introduction . . 1
1. Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of Tobacco in China, 1550-1650 . . 15
2. The Expansion of Chinese Tobacco Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1600-1750 . . 34
3. Learning to Smoke Chinese-Style, 1644-1750 . . 61
4. Tobacco in Ming-Qing Medical Culture . . 88
5. The Fashionable Consumption of Tobacco, 1750-1900 . . 110
6. The Emergence of the Chinese Cigarette Industry, 1880-1937 . . 131
7. Socially and Spatially Differentiated Tobacco Consumption during the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 . . 149
8. The Urban Cigarette and the Pastoral Pipe: Literary Representations of Smoking in Republican China . . 178
9. New Women, Modern Girls, and the Decline of Female Smoking in China, 1900-1976 . . 199
Epilogue: Tobacco in the People's Republic of China, 1949-2010 . . 240

Notes . . 255
Works Cited . . 291
Index . . 319

Tibet : a history

Obrazy
Autor
Sam van Schaik
Place of publication
New Haven
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps . . viii
Acknowledgements . . xi
Note On Pronouncing Tibetan Words . . xiii
Preface . . xv

1 Tibet Appears, 600-700 . . 1
2 The Holy Buddhist Empire, 700-797 . . 21
3 Keepers of the Flame, 797-1054 . . 41
4 Patrons and Priests, 1054-1315 . . 61
5 Golden Age, 1315-1543 . . 85
6 The Rise and Fall of the Dalai Lamas, 1543-1757 . . 114
7 The Balancing Act, 1757-1904 . . 146
8 Independence, 1904-1950 . . 180
9 Under the Red Flag, 1950-1959 . . 207
10 Two Tibets, 1959 to the Present . . 238

Notes . . 270
Bibliography . . 292
Index . . 304

Passage to manhood : youth migration, heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China

Obrazy
Autor
Shao-hua Liu
Place of publication
Stanford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations . . ix
Preface . . xi

Introduction: Bringing Peripheries to the Center . . 1
1 The Meandering Road to Modernity . . 27
2 Manhood, Migration, and Heroin . . 51
3 Multivocal Drug Control . . 81
4 Contentious Individuality on the Rise . . 104
5 Failed State AIDS Intervention . . 130
6 AIDS and Its Global Stigmatization . . 162
Conclusion . . 187

Notes . . 199
Bibliography . . 207
Index . . 225

Series
(Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)

Suicide and justice : a Chinese perspective

Obrazy
Autor
Wu Fei
Place of publication
London

Publisher

Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgement . . xiii
Personae . . xvi

PART I - Introduction

1 Suicide as a Chinese problem . . 3
1.1 Understanding suicide in China . . 3
1.2 Fieldwork and methodology . . 6
1.3 Theory, thesis and structure of this book . . 10

2 Two philosophies about suicide . . 15
2.1 Sociological and psychiatric studies of suicide . . 15  
2.2 The state of suicide . . 17
2.3 Ming and family life . . 22
2.4 Qi and "behaving as a person" . . 26

PART II - Domestic justice

3 Familial love . . 33
3.1 Conjugal love . . 33
3.2 Parental love . . 37
3.3 Filial piety . . 40
Discussion . . 44

4 Family politics . . 46
4.1 The margin of the family . . 46
4.2 A troubled family . . 53
4.3 A complex family . . 63
Discussion . . 69

5 Fortune . . 71
5.1 Long and short lives . . 71
5.2 Ghosts and human beings . . 76
5.3 Fortune and misfortune . . 82
Discussion . . 88

PART III - Human dignity

6 Suicide and madness . . 93
6.1 Excluded suicide . . 93
6.2 The abnormal . . 95
6.3 Non-persons . . 101
Discussion . . 105

7 Gambling for qi . . 107
7.1 Impulsivity . . 107
7.2 Long-term gamble . . 112
Discussion . . 118

8 Face . . 120
8.1 Spiritedness . . 122
8.2 Loss ofpersonhood . . 131
Discussion . . 139

9 Thinking through . . 140
9.1 Having tunnel vision . . 141
9.2 Heart and lungs . . 146
Discussion . . 153

PART IV - Conclusion: suicide as a public affair

10 Public justice . . 159
10.1 Interfamily conflicts . . 159
10.2 Clear heaven . . 165
70.3 Public injustice . . 171
Discussion . . 179

11 Making good luck . . 181
11.1 Psychiatry and suicide intervention . . 182
11.2 Suicide intervention oj'the rural women . . 184
11.3 Revolution . . 192
11.4 Good fortune . . 195

Notes . . 198
Bibliography . . 203
Index . . 212

Series
(Routledge Contemporary China Series ; 44)

The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literature

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Preface . . xiii
Acknowledgments . . xv
Chinese Units of Measure . . xvii

"I Sit Here and Sing for You": The Oral Literature of China . . 1

1. Folk Stories and Other Spoken Traditions . . 13
A Ginseng Tale from Jilin . . 16
A Folk Story of the Daur . . 20
Folk Stories from the Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna . . 29
A Folk Story in "Funeral Lament Lyrics" of the Luo People, Yunnan . . 39
A Story from the Nuosu of Sichuan . . 43
Tales of Dragons . . 48
A Mosuo Story from Lake Lugu . . 53
A Story of the Pumi of Yunnan . . 56
Folk Stories of the Uyghur . . 58
A Tu Folk Story . . 65
A Tale of the Amis . . 69
Stories of Tu Ritual . . 75
A Namzi Tale . . 81
Namzi Riddles . . 83
Tibetan Flirting Words and Tongue Twisters . . 84

2. Folk Song Traditions . . 90
Flower Songs from Northwestern China . . 93
Kazakh Marriage Songs of Lament and Sorrow . . 100
Qing Dynasty Mountain Songs . . 115
Folk Songs from Jiangsu Province . . 124
Saltwater Songs of Hong Kong . . 145
Songs of the Mindong She People . . 148
Mountain Songs from Liuzhou, Guangxi (Interethnic) . . 158
A Sani Ballad . . 166
Two Folk Songs of the Dong (Gaem) People . . 169
Songs of the Tu . . 174
Mountain Songs . . 174
Folk Song . . 177

3. Folk Ritual . . 179
A Chaoxian Lunar New Year Exorcism Ritual . . 182
Manchu Shaman Songs from Northeastern China . . 184
A Wa Soul-Calling Chant . . 190
A Lahu Marriage Prayer . . 193
Yi Chants from Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan . . 198
A Nuosu Myth from Sichuan . . 203

4. The Epic Traditions . . 213
An Excerpt from the Epic Geser Khan . . 216
Introductory Cantos from the Mongol Epic Jangar . . 222
A Daur Ballad . . 232
Selections from a Yi Epic . . 236
A Tradition-Oriented Yao Creation Epic . . 244
Two Miao (Hmong) Song Flowers . . 276

5. Folk Drama . . 279
Hand-Puppet Theater . . 282
A Postmidnight Shadow Play from Shaanxi . . 288
A Rice-Planting Drama . . 295
A Local Drama from Shaoxing . . 303

6. Professional Story telling Traditions of the North and South . . 309
Northern Prosimetric . . 314
A Medley Song from Northern China . . 314
An Anonymous Work from the Tune Book of the Manor House of Lord Che . . 326
An Oral-Connected Drum Song from the Tune Book of the Manor House of Lord Che . . 353
"The Precious Scroll of Chenxiang" . . 380
A Peking Drum Song . . 406
A Peking Drum Song . . 413
An Excerpt from journey to the West in Fast Bamboo Clapper-Tale Style . . 420
Two Shandong Fast Tales . . 429
Two Versions of "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" from the Yangzhou Pinghua Tradition . . 433
Southern Prosimetric . . 472
Hangzhou Storytelling and Songs . . 472
Jingjiang "Telling Scriptures" from the San Mao Precious Scrolls . . 479
An Eighteenth-Century Version of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" from Suzhou . . 503
An Excerpt from a "Women's Chantefable" . . 552
A Suzhou Chantefable Opening Ballad . . 563
A Suzhou Chantefable Classic from Pearl Pagoda . . 565
A Suzhou Chantefable from the 1950s . . 585
A Wooden-Fish Song . . 604
An Excerpt from a Great Volumes Script of the Bai People, Yunnan . . 609
An Excerpt from a Great Volumes Script of the Bai People, Yunnan . . 614

Further Reading . . 619
Contributors and Translators . . 627

Series
(Translations from the Asian Classics)

Protest with Chinese characteristics : demonstrations, riots, and petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

Obrazy
Autor
Ho-fung Hung
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures . . ix
List of Tables . . xi
Illustrations of Chinese Protest from Qing Times to Present (photo insert between pages 134 and 135)
Preface . . xiii

INTRODUCTION . . 1
1 MARKET EXPANSION, STATE CENTRALIZATION, AND NEO-CONFUCIANISM IN QING CHINA . . 21
2 DOCUMENTING THE THREE WAVES OF MiD-QiNG PROTEST . . 47
3 FILIAL-LOYAL DEMONSTRATIONS, 1740-1759 . . 68
4 RIOTS INTO REBELLION, 1776-1795 . . 102
5 RESISTANCE AND PETITIONS, 1820-1839 . . 135
6 MIO-QING PROTESTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE . . 168
EPILOGUE: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT . . 194

Notes . . 203
References . . 209
Glossary . . 231
Index . . 237

Food, sacrifice, and sagehood in early China

Obrazy
Autor
Roel Sterckx
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures . . vii
Acknowledgments . . ix

Introduction . . 1

1 Customs and Cuisine . . 11
Diets and Food Lore in Warring States and Han China . . 14
Meat and Morals . . 26
Banquets . . 34
Cenat Confucius . . 42

2 Cooking the World . . 49
The Butcher and the Cook . . 49
Cooking and Harmony . . 59
Yi Yin and Fundamental Tastes . . 65
Cosmic Dining . . 76

3 Sacrifice and Sense . . 83
Offering the Tasteless . . 84
Spirit and Spirits . . 95
Searching for Spirit . . 106

4 The Economics of Sacrifice . . 122
Sacrificial Levies . . 124
Monthly Ordinances . . 128
Maintenance Towns and Personnel . . 134
Spirit Commerce . . 143
Regulating Sacrifice . . 148
Gifts for Spirits, Goods for Mortals . . 152
The Rhetoric of Plenty . . 157

5 Sages, Spirits, and Senses . . 167
Olfaction . . 168
Seeing and Hearing . . 174
Sensory Synthesis . . 178
Sages, Screens, and Earplugs . . 191
The Clairvoyant and the Blind . . 196

Concluding Remarks . . 203

Bibliography . . 207
Index . . 227

Religion and the making of modern East Asia

Obrazy
Autor
Thomas David DuBois
Place of publication
Cambridge
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Figures, and Maps . . ix
Preface . . xi

1 In the beginning: Religion and history . . 1

2 Ming China: The fourteenth century's new world order . . 15
I. Religious foundations of late imperial China . . 15
II. The emperor monk: Zhu Yuanzhang and the new Confucian state . . 36

3 The Buddha and the shogun in sixteenth-century Japan . . 53
I. Religious foundations of medieval Japan . . 53
II. Burning monks: The assault on Buddhism . . 66

4 Opportunities lost: The failure of Christianity, 1550-1750 . . 72
I. The Society of Jesus comes to Asia . . 72
II. The roots of conflict and the long road home . . 84

5 Buddhism: Incarnations and reincarnations . . 94
I. Bodhisattvas and barbarians: Buddhism in Ming and Qing China . . 94
II. The gilded cage: Funerary Buddhism during the Tokugawa . . 105
III. Samurai and nothingness: Zen and the Japanese warrior elite . . 113

6 Apocalypse now . . 123
I. Why the world keeps ending . . 123
II. The White Lotus: Six centuries of Chinese heresy, 1360-1860 . . 131

7 Out of the twilight: Religion and the late nineteenth century . . 142
I. Fists of Justice and Harmony: Christian mission and the last stand of Chinese traditionalism . . 142
II. Kill the Buddha! Shinto and the new traditionalism of Meiji Japan . . 151

8 Into the abyss: Religion and the road to disaster during the early twentieth century . . 161
I. Toward Confucian fascism: China searches for direction . . 161
II. Spirit of the rising sun: Japanese religious militarism . . 179

9 Brave new world: Religion in the reinvention of postwar Asia . . 194
I. Opiate of the masses: Why Marxism opposes religion . . 194
II. The people's faith: How religion survived China's socialist paradise . . 202
III. The peace paradigm and search for meaning in Japan . . 215

10 The globalization of Asian religion . . 224

Glossary . . 231
Timeline of dynasties and major events . . 237
Suggestions for further reading . . 239
Index . . 245

Series
(New Approaches to Asian History)

The many dimensions of Chinese feminism

Obrazy
Autor
Ya-chen Chen
Place of publication
New York

Publisher

Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Series Foreword . . vii
Foreword . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi

1 This Chinese Feminism Which Is Not "One" . . 1
2 More Than Three Waves of Feminism . . 31
3 Taiwanese Academy's Reception of Feminist Scholars and Academic Feminism: Interviews about the 1990s . . 71
4 The Academy's Reception of Feminist Scholars and Academic Feminism in the PRC: Interviews about the 1990s . . 111
5 French Feminist Theories in Zhongwai wenxue of the 1990s . . 135
6 French Feminist Theories in Wenyi lilun of the 1990s . . 169
7 Feminist Orientalism and Occidentalism: Feminist Theoretical Round-Trips, Feedback Loops, and "Not-one-ness" . . 195

Notes . . 217
Glossarial Index . . 265

East Asian cinema and cultural heritage : from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
Place of publication
New York

Publisher

Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables . . vii
Acknowledgments . . ix
Foreword . . xi

1. Reclaiming a Legacy: The New-style Martial Arts Saga and Globalized Entertainment . . 1
2. Forging a Cultural Heritage in Chinese Movies: Smncations and Self-imposed Distancing from Chinese Culture in a Globalized Industry . . 27
3. Contested Heritage: Cinema, Collective Memory, and the Politics of Local Heritage in Hong Kong . . 53
4. Traditional Chinese Aesthetics and Contemporary Chinese Films: Applying the Idea of Qi-yun to Understand the Temporal Structure of Selected Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien . . 81
5. A "Horrible" Legacy: Noh and J-horror . . 101
6. The Loyal 47 Ronin Never Die: Influence of Chushingura on Japanese War Films . . 125
7. The Creation of Pansori Cinema: Sopyonje and Chunhyangdyun in Creative Hybridity . . 151
8. Martial Arts Craze in Korea: Cultural Translation of Martial Arts Film and Literature in the 1960s . . 173

Biographies of Contributors . . 197
Index of Names . . 199
Index of Films . . 205