Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
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Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world,...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
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
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Decoding Subaltern Politics
Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form....
Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
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The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
China’s history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a "geobody", than as part of a broader set of global and regional processes; from the "...
Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
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China, East Asia and the Global Economy
Regional and Historical Perspectives
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving...
Published June 1st 2008 by Routledge