Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies (Series)

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Legends of the Warring States

Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-kuo Ts'e

By J. Crump
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Lively accounts of political intrigue and other lore from early China.

Peony Pavilion Onstage

Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama

By Catherine Swatek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

One of the few full-length English-language studies of Chinese drama and the only one to focus on the pivotal Kun opera Peony Pavilion

Song-Poems from Xanadu

By J. Crump
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Translated poems providing a survey of ch’ü poetry

Labor and the Chinese Revolution

Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948

By S. Bernard Thomas & S. Bernard Thomas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A definitive chronological study of labor’s role in the revolution, drawing upon a wide range of Chinese and Western sources

“Proletarian Hegemony” in the Chinese Revolution and the Canton Commune of 1927

By S. Bernard Thomas
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Appropriation and Representation

Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story

By Shuhui Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

How a member of the late Ming literati class creatively manipulated popular and literati culture to elevate an underrated literary genre

The Ming Dynasty

Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

By Charles Hucker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution

By Andrew Walder
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The Economy of Communist China, 1949–1969

By Chu-yuan Cheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Review of the economic development, factors, trends, and changes of Communist China

An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Painting Catalogues and Related Texts

By Hin-cheung Lovell
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)

By Timoteus Pokora
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Reconstructs and translates a unique work of political criticism from an influential Confucian scholar-official

The Matrix of Lyric Transformation

Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry

By Zong-qi Cai & Zong-qi Cai
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Traces one the most important genres in early Chinese literature through a series of modes connoting varying social milieus, from folk to literati

Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas

Edited by J. I. Crump, J. I. Crump, William P. Malm, and William P. Malm
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings scholars of China, Japan, music, and speech together to assess the practices, structures, and networks of influence of a distinctive art form

Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting

By Robert Maeda
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A treatise and a history that shed light on theories and practices of painting in the imperial Academy and the literati in the late Northern Sung period

Between Two Plenums

China’s Intraleadership Conflict, 1959–1962

By Ellis Joffe
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Nineteenth-Century China

Five Imperialist Perspectives

Edited by Dilip Basu & Rhoads Murphey
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Collects contemporary perspectives of nineteenth-century China that exemplify British imperial knowledge, dreams, arguments, and enterprises

Two Studies on Ming History

By Charles Hucker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A historical analysis of a famous military campaign in 1556, and a translation of a narrative account of a popular uprising in 1626

The Cultural Revolution

1967 in Review

By Michel Oksenberg, Carl Riskin, and Ezra F. Vogel
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Four papers showing the effects of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups, economy, foreign policy, and political factions in Communist China

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Reference, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China

By Martin Singer
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Weighs the meaning of the Cultural Revolution for the young people who were its vanguard

Modern China, 1840–1972

An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids

By Andrew Nathan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Research aid for graduate students of modern China on how to find sources

Yuarn Music Dramas

Studies in Prosody and Structure and a Complete Catalogue of Northern Arias in the Dramatic Style

By Dale Johnson
Subjects: Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Reference, Art, Architecture
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A bibliography of publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings in public or private collections

A Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the People's Communes

By Wei-yi Ma
Subjects: Reference, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A comprehensive culling of information from some 137 Chinese journals on the topic of the commune, the most important administrative and planning unit in post-1949 China

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

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