American Religious History

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Transport in Transition

The Evolution of Traditional Shipping in China

By Andrew Watson
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History

A collection of the best available Japanese articles on China’s water transport in the early twentieth century

The Sian Incident

A Pivotal Point in Modern Chinese History

By Tien-wei Wu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, American Religious History
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Detailed study of the extraordinary capture in 1936 of Chiang Kai-shek by his own subordinate, Chang Hsueh-liang, and of the negotiations that altered the fate of the Communist Party and the anti-Japanese alliance

Social Organization in South China, 1911–1949

The Case of Kuan Lineage in K’ai-p’ing County

By Yuen-fong Woon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology, History, American Religious History, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exploration of the effects on patrilineal kinship ties of the social and political changes in the period between the revolutions of 1912 and 1949

Nourish the People

The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850

By Pierre-Etienne Will, R. Bin Wong, and R. Bin Wong
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, International Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive analysis of the Chinese state civilian granary system by a team of scholars

James Jesse Strang

The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King

By Don Faber
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Biography, History, American Religious History, Religion

The extraordinary life of one of the Mormon church’s early leaders
 

Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism

By Peter Adams
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American Religious History, Jewish Studies

The history of American Judaism in the years after the Civil War

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

Cross Purposes

Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

By Paula Abrams
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, American Religious History, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Religion, Education

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By Thomas Gottschang & Diana Lary
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Presents both statistical analysis and the perspectives of individual migrants and their families on one of the largest migrations in the world

Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement

Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China

By Leslie Chen
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A political biography of an early twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary and federalist written by his son

God of the Dao

Lord Lao in History and Myth

By Livia Kohn
Subjects: Religion, History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Illuminates the story of Lord Lao through historical analysis and mythological narrative to show its influence on traditional Chinese religion

Peking Politics, 1918–1923

Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism

By Andrew Nathan
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The story of how politicians who believed in constitutionalism were driven to destroy it by the short-term tactical requirements of their chosen political game

The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China

The Emergence of New Approaches

By Donald J. Munro
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Philosophy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A study of the road to modern problem solving in China, winding between a traditional Confucian style of inquiry and one associated with science

Controlling from Afar

The Daoguang Emperor’s Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824–1826

By Jane Leonard
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A nuanced account of the emperor's decisions and the interaction between the court and provincial and regional officials during the Grand Canal crisis of the 1820s

Studies in the Economic History of Late Imperial China

Handicraft, Modern Industry, and the State

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, Globalization, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Seven previously published but long out-of-print essays, and one new essay, explore traditional and modern manufacturing in Ming and Qing China and its relationship to the government

The Chinese Economy, 1870–1949

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: Economics, Globalization, History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explains through descriptive analysis why the economy of China did not grow more dramatically during the Ch’ing and Republican periods

Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age

A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840

By Helen Dunstan
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, International Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Translates and comments on a body of Qing documents exemplifying the rhetorical complexity and diverse economic theories of their era

Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques

Edited by Livia Kohn & Yoshinobu Sakade
Subjects: Religion, History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

French, German, and Japanese scholars explore historical and technical as well as religious aspects of Taoism, ranging from pre-Han practice to the contemporary revival

The Pawnshop in China

By Chao-yu Yang
Translated by T. S. Whelan
Edited by T. Whelan
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, Globalization, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History

Translation of Yang Chao-yu’s Chung-kuo tien-tang yeh (1929), treating the pawnshop in late imperial and Republican times and covering such as aspects as exteriors, interiors, and fixtures, as well as business and management practices

The Silk Industry in Ch'ing China

By Min-hsiung Shih & E-tu Zen Sun
Translated by E-tu Sun
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, Globalization, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History

An examination of the silk industry in Ch’ing China

Intellectual Ferment for Political Reforms in Taiwan, 1971–1973

By Mab Huang
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A study of university dissidents in Taiwan during the turbulent early seventies

State and Society in Eighteenth-Century China

The Ch'ing Empire in Its Glory

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The Foreign Establishment in China in the Early Twentieth Century

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Views the impact of foreign imperialism on China during its apogee, the early republican era (1910 to 1920)

Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century China

By Albert Feuerwerker
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An examination of nei-luan—“domestic disorder”—in late Ch’ing China

Commerce and Society in Sung China

By Yoshinobu Shiba
Translated by Mark Elvin
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, Globalization, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History

Studies the development of communications and transport in Sung and Yuan times, the formation of a nationwide market and the development of cities and markets during the Sung Dynasty, and the characteristics of commercial capital

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