Guilty of indigence : the urban poor in China, 1900-1953 / by Chen, Janet Y., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1: Between Charity and Punishment; Chapter 2: "Parasites upon Society"; Chapter 3: "Living Ghosts" during the Nanjing Decade; Chapter 4: Beggars or Refugees?; Chapter 5: Keeping Company with Ghosts; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Loneliness' utopsy / by Chen, Ko Hua

Table of Contents: “…Title page; poet; Contents; Clown Spirit -Watching Marcel Marceau; This Life; No Children Are Being Born in This Instant; Vision Minus Eyes; unbright tears; Loneliness Autopsy; Experiment with Osmium; Taiwan Tableau-To the 21st Century Chen Yingzhen; The Unfolding; Me and My Narcissus; Strange Tales of Nanjing Street; Nothing; Poet's information; Copyright page.…”
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China's Republic / by Lary, Diana

Table of Contents: “…The decline of empire, the dream of a republic: 1890s-1911 -- The early republic -- chaos and creativity: 1912-28 -- The Nanjing decade -- a new beginning? 1928-37 -- The resistance war -- warfare and chaos: 1937-45 -- The Civil War -- the most vicious conflict: 1946-9 -- More than survival -- the Republic on Taiwan: 1949 to the present -- Conclusion: the end of the Republic?…”
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Death in Beijing : murder and forensic science in Republican China / by Asen, Daniel S.

Table of Contents: “…Legal medicine during the Nanjing decade -- Conclusion: A history of forensic modernity -- Glossary.…”
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Death in Beijing : murder and forensic science in Republican China / by Asen, Daniel S.

Table of Contents: “…Legal medicine during the Nanjing decade -- Conclusion: A history of forensic modernity -- Glossary.…”
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Poetry, history, memory : Wang Jingwei and China in dark times. by YANG, ZHIYI

Table of Contents: “…The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing -- Epilogue: Poetry against Oblivion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index…”
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Resources, environment and sustainability.

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China in war and revolution, 1895-1949 / by Zarrow, Peter Gue

Table of Contents: “…Part I : the road to revolution, 1895-1919 -- The rise of Confucian radicalism -- 1911 : history and historiography -- Ideas and ideals in the fall of the Qing -- From the military dictator to the warlords -- Social conditions in the countryside -- Urban social change -- Intellectuals, the Republic, and a new culture -- Part II : nationalism and revolution, 1919-1937 -- Politics and culture in the May Fourth movement -- National identity, Marxism, and social justice -- The rise of political parties -- Ideology and power in the Nationalist Revolution -- The Northern Expedition and the rise of Chiang Kai-shek -- The Nanjing decade, 1928-1937 : the Guomindang era -- Peasants and communists -- Part III : war and revolution, 1937-1949 -- The War of Resistance, 1937-45 -- Mao, Maoism, and the Communist party -- Revolution and civil war.…”

Folk art and modern culture in Republican China / by Lufkin, Felicity

Table of Contents: “…Folk art and national culture in the Nanjing decade -- Imagining folk art in urban China -- Prints as popular art : folk prints and new prints -- The folkloric prints of the modern print association -- The folk picture exhibition -- pt. …”
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Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism /

Table of Contents: “…Stevenson -- Buddhist literati and literary monks / Amy McNair -- Through the empty gate / Beata Grant -- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture / Marsha Weidner -- Miracles in Nanjing / Patricia Berger -- Thangkas for the Qianlong Emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Beijing's Zhihua monastery / Kenneth J. …”
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The last half century of Chinese overseas /

Table of Contents: “…(The Xiao Yucan Principle and Its Historical Destiny) / Zhou Nanjing; Part II: Identity and Ethnicity; 5. Preserving Bukit China: The Cultural Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Melaka's Chinese Cemetery / Carolyn L. …”
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Remaking the Chinese city : modernity and national identity, 1900-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Buck -- Yang Sen in Chengdu: urban planning in the interior / Kristin Stapleton -- Tourism and spatial change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927 / Liping Wang -- Defining Beiping: urban reconstruction and national identity, 1928-1936 / Madeleine Yue Dong -- Building a dream: constructing a national capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937 / Charles D. Musgrove -- Wuhan's search for identity in the Republican period / Stephen R. …”
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Information technology applications in industry, computer engineering and materials science /

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Painting the city red : Chinese cinema and the urban contract / by Braester, Yomi

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film and the urban contract -- New China, new Beijing : staging the socialist city of the future -- A big dyeing vat : the rise of proletarian Shanghai and the fall of Nanjing Road -- Mansions of uneven rhyme : Beijing courtyards and the instant city -- The first precinct under heaven : state symbolism and unplanned urbanism at Tiananmen Square -- Angel sanctuaries : Taipei's gentrification and the erasure of veterans' villages -- "This is the story of our street" : urban preservation and the post-Maoist politics of memory -- The day trip of your dreams : globalizing Beijing and the postspatial city.…”
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Navigating semi-colonialism : shipping, sovereignty, and nation-building in China, 1860-1937 / by Reinhardt, Anne, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sovereign concerns : the formation of a semi-colonial steam transport network, 1860-1911 -- Aligning capital and flag : the steam shipping business, 1860-82 -- The shipping conference as collaboration, 1882-1913 -- The steamship as social space, 1860-1925 -- Shipping nationalism : the politics and business of shipping in China's early republic, 1912-27 -- Nanjing and Chongqing : the return of the state to shipping, 1927-37 -- The "new steamship" : transformations of social space, 1925-37 -- Conclusion : Decolonizing the steamship network, 1937-56.…”
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China : a modern history / by Dillon, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Rise and fall of the Chinese empire -- China and the West: the road to the opium war -- Taiping, Nian and Muslim uprisings (1850-1884) -- Restoration and Western colonisation (1856-1898) -- Boxer rising and imperial decline (1899-1911) -- Struggle for the Republic of China (1911-1916) -- May fourth movement: communists and nationalists (1917-1924) -- Northern expedition and united front (1923-1927) -- Nanjing decade and the long march (1927-1937) -- Japanese invasion, second united front and civil war (1937-1949) -- Interlude: new China, new history? …”

Breaking with the past : the Maritime Customs Service and the global origins of modernity in China / by Van de Ven, Hans J.

Table of Contents: “…Tariff Nation, Smugglers' Nation: The Customs Service in the Nanjing Decade, 1929-1937; 7. Maintaining Integrity, 1937-1949; Epilogue: Echoes and Shadows; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Jesuits and matriarchs : domestic worship in early modern China / by Amsler, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Clothes make the man: the Jesuits' adoption of literati masculinity -- A kingdom of virtuous women: Jesuit descriptions of China's moral topography -- A source of creative tension: literati Jesuits and priestly duties -- Strengthening the marital bond: the Christianization of Chinese marriage -- Praying for progeny: women and Catholic spiritual remedies -- Domestic communities: women's congregations and communal piety -- Sharing genteel spirituality: the female networks of the Xus of Shanghai -- A widow and her virgins: the domestic convents of Hangzhou and Nanjing -- Fabrics of devotion: Catholic women's pious patronage -- Women and gender in global Catholicism.…”
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