Asian Studies Catalog 2012

Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology

Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji, The Artificers' Record

By Jun Wenren

Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work, described by the great scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology Joseph Needham as "the most important document for the study of ancient Chinese technology", dates from the...

Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge

China and Southeast Asia

Historical Interactions

Edited by Geoffrey Wade, James K. Chin

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries and examining maritime trading relations, political interactions, overland Chinese expansion and Chinese commerce in Southeast Asia, this book will appeal to historians of China and Southeast Asia....

To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge

Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan

By Hill Gates

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not...

To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

Homoeroticism in Imperial China

A Sourcebook

Edited by Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu

Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex...

Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge

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

Twentieth Century Colonialism and China

Localities, the everyday, and the world

Edited by Bryna Goodman, David SG Goodman

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This...

Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge

Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

By Shen Zhihua

Series: Cold War History

This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing...

Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge