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        June 2019

        Liao Zhai Zhiyi

        by Pu Songlin

        It is a collection of short stories in literary language written by the famous Chinese novelist Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty. They either expose the darkness of feudal rule, or attack the corruption of the imperial examination system, or rebel against the shackles of feudal rituals, and are rich in profound ideological content. The works depicting the theme of love are the most numerous in the whole book, and they express a strong anti-feudal ritualistic spirit. Some of these works, through the romance between flower demons and foxes and humans, express the author's ideal love.

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        Foxtrel Legend

        by Su Jianke

        This book is made for the study of vixen culture, compiling and researching dozens of classic ancient books such as "Shan Hai Jing", "Sou Shen Ji", "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi", "Zi Bu Yu", "Yue Wei Thatched Cottage Notes", "Taiping Guang Ji" and other dozens of classics The story of "The Fox" carefully and carefully explores the "professional" issues of how the Fox becomes human, how to cultivate, such as the catastrophe of the river crossing, and how to charm humans from multiple perspectives such as history, psychology and religion. The book explores many novel areas, such as how do vixen change adults? How does a vixen cultivate immortality? How does a vixen avoid lightning? How does a vixen charm people? ... Revealing the whole journey of the fox from beast to monster, from monster to fairy, telling the love and hatred of fox and human for thousands of years. I believe that readers can fully appreciate the profoundness and fantasy of Chinese monster culture after reading it. It can be called an excellent general history of monster culture!

      • The Lion, the Dragon, and the Eagle

        Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-1958

        by Qiang Zhai (author)

        The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and the subsequent conclusion of the Sino-Soviet Alliance Treaty destroyed the old balance of power in East Asia and introduced new forces into the international system. These developments had important implications for Great Britain and the United States, both of which possessed significant interests in the region. Drawing on previously classified British and American documents and private papers, Qiang Zhai compares the respective policies toward the recognition of China and that country’s representation in the United Nations; China’s entry into the Korean War; the Geneva Conference of 1954; the Quemoy-Matsu crises of 1954-55 and 1958; and Chinese threats to Taiwan and Tibet. He carefully analyzes the objective of dividing the Sino-Soviet alliance as a goal of Anglo-American policies and uses recently available Chinese Communist materials—including inner-party documents, diaries, memoirs, and biographies by and about former Chinese leaders, generals, and diplomats—to reconstruct Chinese foreign policy initiatives and responses to Western challenges. With its unique international and comparative dimensions, this study allows the first clear view of early Cold War history from the Chinese as well as Western perspectives. Washington and London differed widely in their assessments of Beijing’s intentions and capabilities, as reflected in their respective policies toward recognition and containment of China. Zhai examines the mutual influences and constraints—distinct strategic concerns, divergences in political structures, public opinion, interest groups, and diplomatic traditions, as well as the perceptions and idiosyncrasies of the top policymakers—that affected Anglo-American relations and shows how consideration of each others reactions further complicated their policy decisions. This study in international history and comparative analysis avoids the tunnel vision so common in explorations of bilateral relationships by structuring the narrative around the initiatives and responses of each of the countries to events that were inherently multilateral in character.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The Chinese Presentation in Everyday Life

        by Zhai Xuewei

        Face and favor as a topic has been described by missionaries, observers, journalists who were in China, and also discussed by anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists many times. However, there is still a lack of proper understanding regarding the meaning of face and favor within the Chinese social network, political structure, regarding its culture pattern and value, the traits of face and favor, and what happens when they connect with each other or with power. The author has been engaged in the research of the guanxi law for many years. Since he published a series of research results, he sees the complicated phenomenon as the Chinese way of daily representation, and researches its implications and contexts from a new perspective and theory. This book also draws attention to the previous research results of cohesion and discussion, and tries to create a dialogue with the related theories, as far as possible in order to show the outline of the basic characteristics of Chinese behavior pattern and their track, which will help the readers to better understand research in other areas of Chinese behavioral studies by drawing upon the experience gained on key points.

      • March 2022

        The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

        Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

        by Alison Hardie

        The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China.

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