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  1. Mapping China and Managing the World

    Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

    By Richard J. Smith

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Christianity in Contemporary China

    Socio-cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

    Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to generate suspicion among political elites and intense debates among broader communities...

    Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

    Red Fire

    By Gene Cooper

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

    Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Islam, Family Life, and Gender Inequality in Urban China

    By Xiaowei Zang

    Series: Routledge Studies on Ethnicity in Asia

    This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...

    Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology
    By Simon Kwan
    To Be Published October 29th 2013
  2. Building Temples in China: Memories, Tourism and Identities
    By Selina Ching Chan, Graeme Lang
    To Be Published February 14th 2014
  3. Religious Revival and Chinese Ethnic Minorities: The Bai People of Southwest China
    By Liang Yongjia
    To Be Published March 30th 2014
  4. Religious Revival in Ethnic Areas of China
    Edited by Liang Yongjia
    To Be Published March 30th 2014
  5. Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
    Edited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, Peter van der Veer
    To Be Published March 30th 2014

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