Add to ORKGIn the fall of 2010, I advanced to candidacy at the University of California, San Diego, and bearing the new title of PhD candidate in modern Chinese history, I set off for that great and time-honored pilgrimage to the People’s Republic of China to start researching my dissertation. I’ve been here four months, and while the process of researching Chinese opera (particularly kun opera and ghost plays) in the PRC has not been as smooth as I would have hoped, there is one thing that’s been going swimmingly: book shopping. More precisely, shopping online for books related to my dissertation
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Moving across the country (from Irvine, California to State College, Pennsylvania) meant that most o...
In this first Next Page column of the 2017-18 academic year, Jing Li, Associate Professor of Chinese...
In April 2008, Ma Wanli, a professor of American history at Nanchang Hangkong University in Nanchang...
In the fall of 2010, I advanced to candidacy at the University of California, San Diego, and bearing...
• If you’re looking for a few China book recommendations, check out these two recent interviews at T...
Karl Gerth is a tutor and fellow at Merton College and a historian of modern China at Oxford Univers...
For the past week, all over China, writers have been bumping into each other at hotel check-ins, or ...
A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China ...
If your New Year’s resolution is to read more, or if cold winter weather has chased you inside, pour...
A hodgepodge of historically or (historian-) relevant readings from the last few weeks… 1. Of greate...
Antonia Finnane is Professor of Chinese History at the University of Melbourne, co-editor (with Anne...
When I first left to study in China, I asked around about what presents to bring. I took the advice ...
• Heading for the beach and looking for the perfect book to toss in your tote bag? At Five Books, au...
For quite some time, the online journal Japan Focus has been moving toward covering Asia more genera...
Regular readers of this blog may think it is a bit redundant for me to do a “Self-promotion Saturday...
Moving across the country (from Irvine, California to State College, Pennsylvania) meant that most o...
In this first Next Page column of the 2017-18 academic year, Jing Li, Associate Professor of Chinese...
In April 2008, Ma Wanli, a professor of American history at Nanchang Hangkong University in Nanchang...