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Hilary Spurling’s top 10 unputdownable Chinese books

By admin | Published: October 21, 2010
[From the Guardian, London, Tuesday 11 May 2010] 1. Chinese Children at Play written and illustrated by Yui Shufang (Methuen, 1939) This was the picture book that transfixed me as a child. I was entranced by these cool, neat, nifty children rolling marbles, whipping tops, kicking little feathered missiles called Chientse, and trying to beat [...]
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Princeton University – The Cultural Revolution: reading list

By admin | Published: September 19, 2010
(CPC, Central Committee), Resolution on CPC History ’81 * …………………………………………………….. 17241.194.2575 Ahn Byung-joon, Chinese Politics and the Cultural Revolution ………………………………………………… DS777.55.A6735 Asia Research Center, The Great Cultural Revolution ’67 ……………………………………………………………. 17241.193.405 Ba Jin, Random Thoughts ………………………………………………………………………………………………. PL2780.F4S913’84 G Barnouin, Barbara, & Yu Changgen, Ten Years of Turbulence …………………………………………………… DS778.7.B87’93 Barnouin, Barbara, Chinese Foreign Policy During [...]
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Princeton University – China’s Economic Strategy from mid-1990s onwards: reading list

By admin | Published: September 19, 2010
Brahm, Laurence J., China’s Century: The Awakening of the Next Economic Powerhouse ………………………. Wiley’01 Chai, Joseph, China: Transition to a Market Economy ………………………………………………………………………….. OUP’97 Chan, Anita+, Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared ……………………………………. Rowman’99 Chang, Maria Hsia, The Labors of Sisyphus: The Ec Dev’t of Communist China ………………………………………….. NJ’98 Chen, Jian, Globalization, Competition, and [...]
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SOAS – Traditional Chinese Language And Literature & Traditional Chinese Literature In Translation: Required reading

By admin | Published: September 19, 2010
Traditional Chinese Language And Literature Allan, Sarah and William Crispin (eds.): The Guodian Laozi. Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 (Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China & The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2000) Birch, Cyril (ed.): Anthology of Chinese Literature, Vol. 1: From Early Times [...]
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SOAS – Modern Chinese – Required reading [list compiled from several courses]

By admin | Published: September 19, 2010
Colloquial Chinese P C T’ung and D E Pollard (Routledge 1982) Zheng Rui. Hanyu yuedu sucheng (jichu pian) (Speedy Reading Course for Chinese (elementary level)). Beijing: Beijing Languages and Cultures University Press, 2006. Essential Readings: Hu Yushu 胡裕树(ed.): Xiandai Hanyu 现代汉语(Modern Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaoyu Chubanshe, (1995) 2001 Additional Readings: Bradford, Richard: Stylistics. London: Routledge, 1997 Edward, [...]
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SOAS – Classical Chinese: Required Reading [combined list from several courses]

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010
Billeter, Jean Francois: The Chinese Art of Writing. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1990 Chiang, Yee: Chinese Calligraphy. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1961 Dawson, Raymond: A New Introduction to Classical Chinese. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984 Graham, Angus: Notes on Classical Chinese Grammar (unpublished manuscript; copies made available at the beginning of term 2) [...]
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SOAS – Society, Environment And State In The History Of China: Required Reading

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010
Economy, Elisabeth. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Elvin, Mark and Liu Ts’ui-jung, eds. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Cambridge: Cambridge University [...]
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SOAS – Manchu Society and Culture: An Alternative History of China (1600-1997): Reading List

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010
Paul A. Cohen, China unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Nicola Di Cosmo (intro., notes, transl. of Dzengšeo’s), The diary of a Manchu soldier in seventeenth-century China : “My service in the army”, London: Routledge, 2006. Idem and Dalizhabu Bao, Manchu-Mongol relations on the eve of the Qing Conquest: a [...]
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SOAS Ethnography Of China: Required Reading

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010
Sample readings: Abbas, A. 1997. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Chen, Nancy et al., (eds.), 2001. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Gates, Hill. 1996. China’s Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Harrell, Stevan. 2001. Ways [...]
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Cambridge University Chinese Studies: Preparatory Reading List [annotated]

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010
General For those who have been offered places to read Chinese Studies at Cambridge, the short period between leaving school and coming into residence offers a valuable window of opportunity to do some effective preparatory work. This page is intended to provide guidance on the best ways to use this interlude to prepare for the [...]
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