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Global Studies Faculty Seminars: Materials on China

Films

Please click on a title for additional information about the film

Tiananmen Square
Call Number: DVD 951.05 T551 2007
China rises
Call Number: DVD 330.951 C539 2008

Early Western Contact - The Jesuits

Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
The Question of Hu by Jonathan Spence
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request

From China: A New History by John King Fairbank's bibliography, page 494:

Controversial ideas in China and in Europe : a biography of Jean-François Foucquet, S.J., (1665-1741) by John W. Witek
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Curious land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology by David E. Mungello
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
China and the Christian impact: a conflict of cultures by Jacques Gernet; translated by Janet Lloyd
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request

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The titles below were recommended to the group during the summer 2010 seminar:

After Mao: Chinese literature and society, 1978-1981 by Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Age of Confucian rule : the Song transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn
Call Number: 951.024 K96a 2009
America's response to China : a history of Sino-American relations by Warren I. Cohen
Call Number: 327.73051 C678a 2010
Arts of China by Michael Sullivan
Call Number: 709.51 S951a 2008
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics : entrepreneurship and the state by Yasheng Huang
Call Number: 330.12 H874c 2008
Chen Village: revolution to globalization by Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
China between empires : the northern and southern dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis
Call Number: 931.04 L675c 2009
China in the sixteenth century: the journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610 by translated from the Latin by Louis J. Gallagher; with a foreword by Richard J. Cushing
Call Number: 273.163 R35CE1953
China on screen cinema and nation by Chris Berry
Call Number: Available through I-Share
China rising: peace, power, and order in East Asia by David C. Kang
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
China transformed by R. Bin Wong
Call Number: 951 W872c 1997
China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities by C. Fred Bergsten
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
China, Inc.: how the rise of the next superpower challenges America and the world by Ted C. Fishman
Call Number: 338.951 F537c 2006
China: People Place Culture History
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery by Patricia Bjaaland Welch
Call Number: 709.51 W441c 2008
Chinese Family and Kinship by Hugh D. Baker
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan
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Chinese symbolism and art motifs : a comprehensive handbook on symbolism in Chinese art through the ages by C.A.S. Williams
Call Number: 704.94609 W722c 2006
Clash of empires : the invention of China in modern world making by Lydia H. Liu
Call Number: 951.034 L783c 2006
Columbia History of Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mai
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Discovering history in China : American historical writing on the recent Chinese past by Paul A. Cohen
Call Number: 951.0072 C678d 2010
Dislocating China : reflections on Muslims, minorities, and other subaltern subjects by Dru C. Gladney
Call Number: 305.8 G542d 2004
Early Chinese Empires : Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
Call Number: 951 L675e 2007
East Asian cinemas: exploring transnational connections on film by edited by Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai.
Call Number: Click on title to request on Interlibrary Loan
Emperor of China; self portrait of Kʻang Hsi by Jonathan D. Spence
Call Number: 951.03 K16e 1975
Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
Call Number: Available through I-Share
Gate of heavenly peace: the Chinese and their revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence
Call Number: 951 S744G
Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China by Jay Taylor
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Governing China : from revolution through reform by Kenneth Lieberthal
Call Number: 951.05 L716g 2004
History of Imperial China (6 volume series)
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by edited by Zong-qi Cai
Call Number: 895.1 H847 2008
Introducing Chinese religions by Mario Poceski
Call Number: 200.951 P739i 2009
Leprosy in China : a history by Angela Ki Che Leung
Call Number: 362.196 L653L 2009
Literature of China in the twentieth century by Bonnie McDougall and Kam Louie
Call Number: 895.109 M137L 1997
Man who loved China Joseph Needham and the making of a masterpiece by Simon Winchester
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Modernization and revolution in China : from the Opium Wars to the Olympics by June Grasso et al
Call Number: 951.05 G769m 2009
Pop culture China! : media, arts, and lifestyle by Kevin Latham
Call Number: 306.0951 L352p 2007
Postsocialist modernity : Chinese cinema, literature, and criticism in the market age by Jason McGrath
Call Number: 306.4 M147p 2008
Reinventing China: A Generation and its Films by Paul Clark
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Rescuing history from the nation : questioning narratives of modern China by Prasenjit Duara
Call Number: 951.072 D844r 1996
Revenge of the forbidden city : the suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005 by James W. Tong
Call Number: 323.44 T665r 2009
Rise of modern China by Immanuel C. Y. Hsü
Call Number: 951.03 H873r 2000
Sacred economies : Buddhist monasticism & territoriality in medieval China by Michael J. Walsh
Call Number: 294.3657 W226s 2010
Search for modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
Call Number: 951.03 S744s 1999
Short history of Chinese philosophy by Fung Yu-Lan
Call Number: 181.11 F332s 1997
Sights of Contestation: Localism, Globalism and Cultural Production in Asia and the Pacific by edited by Kwok-kan Tam, Wimal Dissanayake and Terry Siu-han Yip
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Three thousand years of Chinese painting by Richard M. Barnhart et al
Call Number: 759.951 T531 1997
True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun
Call Number: Available on Interlibrary Loan - Click on title to request
Yellow music : media culture and colonial modernity in the Chinese jazz age by Andrew F. Jones
Call Number: 781.64 J76y 2001
Search for deliberative democracy in China by edited by Ethan J. Leib and Baogang He
Call Number: 320.951 S439 2010
Columbia history of Chinese literature by Victor H. Mair, editor
Call Number: 895.1 C726 2001

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