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![]() | A Korean Scholar’s Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega’s Discourse on Northern Learning ISBN: 9780824879808 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; China -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800; China -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800; Korea -- Social conditions -- 1392-1910 -- Early works to 1; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao ISBN: 9780520972636 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Tang-ki worship -- China -- Henan Sheng; Mental illness -- China -- Henan Sheng; Ghosts; Henan Sheng (China) -- Religious life and customs; Henan Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions; China -- Social life and customs -- 1976–2002; China -- Social life and cu; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China ISBN: 9780295807034 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Art and society -- China -- History -- Ming dynasty 1368–1644; Painting Chinese -- Handbooks manuals etc.; China -- Social life and customs -- 1960–1644; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China ISBN: 9780824874223 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Deviant behavior -- China -- History -- To 1500; China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B. C.–960 A. D.; China -- Social life and customs -- 960–1644; Social norms -- China -- History -- To 1500; Filial piety -- China -- History -- To 1500; War -- China; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China ISBN: 9781503601079 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Footbinding -- China; Footbinding -- Economic aspects -- China; Rural girls -- Employment -- China; Rural women -- Employment -- China; Handicraft industries -- China; Rural girls -- China -- Social life and customs; Rural women -- China -- Social life an; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld ISBN: 9780824860103 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spirit money -- China; Rites and ceremonies -- China; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land ISBN: 9780520954137 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: National characteristics Chinese; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives ISBN: 9780295746425 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Inscriptions -- China; Epitaphs -- China; China -- Biography; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China; Burial -- China; China -- Social life and customs -- Sources; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race ISBN: 9780253015686 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fashion -- China; Fashion design -- China; Popular culture -- China; Chinese in motion pictures; China -- Race relations; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Chu Hsi's "Family Rituals": A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites ISBN: 9781400861958 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- China; Manners and customs -- China; China -- Social life and customs -- 960–1644; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China ISBN: 9780857458919 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rural life -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi Hubei Sheng); Social ethics -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi Hubei Sheng); Zhongba (Enshi Shi Hubei Sheng China) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites ISBN: 9781400862351 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: China -- Social life and customs; Confucianism -- China -- Rituals; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai ISBN: 9780804787468 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cookery -- China -- Shanghai -- History; Food habits -- China -- Shanghai -- History; Cookery Chinese -- Shanghai style; Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai ISBN: 9781684174867 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Taoism -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Chen Yingning 1880–1969 -- Influence; Shanghai (China) -- Religious life and customs; Social change -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Laity -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th ce; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person ISBN: 9780520950511 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Medical anthropology -- China; Cultural psychiatry -- China; Ethnopsychology -- China; Identity (Psychology) -- China; Group identity -- China; China -- Social conditions; China -- Moral conditions; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China ISBN: 9781684174850 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Uighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social life and customs; Family -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Men -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures ISBN: 9780824862329 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Body Human -- Social aspects -- China; Body Human -- Social aspects -- Asia; Sex role -- China; Sex role -- Asia; Body Human in popular culture; Body Human in motion pictures; China -- Social life and customs; Asia -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Facing the Monarch: Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court ISBN: 9781684175345 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: China -- History -- Han dynasty 202 B.C.-220 A.D; China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D; Rhetoric -- China -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life ISBN: 9781400853908 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900; Family -- China; Property -- China; Upper classes -- China; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination ISBN: 9780857454836 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Religion; Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Rites and ceremonies; Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Social life and customs; Divination -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum; Divination -- China -- Inner Mongolia; Bl; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China ISBN: 9780520969995 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sperm banks -- China; Sperm donors -- China; Artificial insemination -- China; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China ISBN: 9781684174089 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Social interaction -- China -- Tai Mountains; Tai Mountains (China); China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China ISBN: 9781684174331 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women -- Government policy -- China -- Hui’an Xian; Women -- China -- Hui’an Xian -- Social life and customs; Women -- China -- Hui’an Xian -- Social conditions; Marriage -- China -- Hui’an Xian; Sexual division of labor -- China -- Hui’an Xian; China --; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression ISBN: 9781496818034 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Jazz -- China -- History and criticism; Jazz musicians -- China; Music -- China -- Western influences; China -- social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Jottings under Lamplight ISBN: 9780674981447 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lu Xun 1881–1936 -- Biography; China -- Civilization -- 1912–1949; China -- Social life and customs -- 1912–1949; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China ISBN: 9780295804385 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Government relations; Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Economic conditions; Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Social life and customs; Post-communisim -- China -- Lijiang Shi; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism ISBN: 9780674287211 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: China -- Social life and customs -- 1949–; China -- Social conditions -- 1949–; Communism -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century; Politics and culture -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Politics and government -- 1949–; Crime --; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds ISBN: 9781845459741 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Traditional medicine -- China -- Tibet; Medical anthropology -- China -- Tibet; Medicine -- China -- Tibet -- Religious aspects; Religion and science -- China -- Tibet; Tibet (China) -- Religious life and customs; Tibet (China) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960–1279) ISBN: 9781684170234 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kinship -- China; Social classes -- China; Elite (Social sciences) -- China; China -- Social life and customs -- 960–1644; China -- History -- Sung dynasty 960–1279; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life. ISBN: 9780804773447 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Naxi (Chinese people) -- Sexual behavior; Naxi (Chinese people) -- Kinship; Naxi (Chinese people) -- Social life and customs; Matrilineal kinship -- China Southwest; Sex role -- China Southwest; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China ISBN: 9780520947610 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Childbirth -- China -- History; Women -- Medical care -- History; China -- Social life and customs -- 1644–1912; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life ISBN: 9780231538176 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dwellings -- China -- Shanghai; Chinese -- Dwellings -- China -- Shanghai; Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs; Shanghai (China) -- Civilization; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways ISBN: 9780295746005 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Food habits -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Food -- Social aspects -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Social change -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History; Yangtze River Delta (China) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Birth of a Republic ISBN: 9780295806907 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: China -- History -- Revolution 1911−1912 -- Pictorial works; China -- History -- Revolution 1911–1912 -- Social aspects -- Pictorial works; China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Wuchang Qu (Wuhan Shi China) -- History --; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future ISBN: 9780300177473 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chongqing (China) -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Chongqing (China) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century; Social change -- China -- Chongqing; Social stability -- China -- Chongqing; National characteristics Chinese; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Food of China ISBN: 9780300157833 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Food habits -- China; Agriculture -- China -- History; Cookery Chinese -- History; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Golden Yoke: the Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet ISBN: 9781501735349 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Law -- China -- Tibet; Customary law -- China -- Tibet; Ethnological jurisprudence -- Tibet (China) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe ISBN: 9780295800042 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Europe; Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Social exchange -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; China -- Social life and customs; China -- Religious life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine ISBN: 9780231536547 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cooking Chinese; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000 ISBN: 9781501715556 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chengdu (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Tearooms -- China -- Chengdu -- History -- 20th century; Socialism and culture -- China -- Chengdu -- History -- 20th century; Chengdu (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China ISBN: 9781612347042 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Marriage -- China -- History -- 20th century; Mate selection -- China -- History -- 20th century; Sex -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Social life and customs -- 1949–1976; China -- Social life and customs -- 1976–2002; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night ISBN: 9780231519731 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Shanxi Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal ISBN: 9780520937840 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ethnology -- China -- Tibet -- Nubri; Philosophy Tibetan; Nubri (Tibet) -- Religious life and customs; Nubri (Tibet) -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship ISBN: 9780814785485 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Intercountry adoption -- China; Intercountry adoption -- United States; Ethnicity -- China; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China ISBN: 9780804786782 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Young women -- China -- History; Young women -- China -- Social conditions; Single women -- China -- History; Single women -- China -- Social conditions; China -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Under the Red Flag: Stories ISBN: 9780820336787 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction; China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; ■ Detailed Information |