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Books by Helen Siu
  | | Asia Inside Out(1st Edition) Changing Times by Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Peter C. . Perdue, Helen F. Siu, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Andrew Willford, Nancy Um, Kerry Ward, Naomi Hosoda, Charles J. Wheeler, Robert I. Hellyer, Anand A. Yang, Eric Tagliacozzo Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-59850-8, ISBN: 0-674-59850-4 "The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi Walcher explores the founding of the Safavi ..." |
 | | Sars(1st Edition) Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities (Routledge Contemporary China Series) by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-77085-9, ISBN: 0-415-77085-8 "SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantin ..." |
 | | Agents and Victims in South China(Updated) Accomplices in Rural Revolution by Helen F. Siu Paperback, 402 Pages, Published 1989 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05265-7, ISBN: 0-300-05265-0 "In Xinqu tudigaigeqian de nongcun, 58-68. Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe. Li Ruizi Tang zhengli changchan weihuiyian bu (The minutes of the committee to sort and retrieve the ancestral estates of the Li Ruizi trust). 1946. Huicheng. Li Yuncheng Tang. 1905. Zhiqing zuci luocheng gongding ... xiangcun gongzuo xunlianban" ( Reflections on the rural work training classes during the war in Xinhui). In Xinhui wenshi ziliao xuanji 22:36-37. Lin ..." |
 | | Down to Earth(1st Edition) The Territorial Bond in South China by David Faure, Helen F. Siu Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1995 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2435-7, ISBN: 0-8047-2435-0 "Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's. The delta is a rich and socially complex area of south China, and the contributors - scholars from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States - have long-standing t ..." |
 | | Furrows(1st Edition) Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State: Stories and Histories from Modern China by Helen F., Helen F. Siu Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1990 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1838-7, ISBN: 0-8047-1838-5 "Hong Sheng of Xia Family Bend was the same." "He even ate rats. He really was ferocious!" "Yeah, he really was. Never heard of such a thing ... me, and my throat constricted. All I could do was pretend to go help myself to more rice, then sneak off to a dark corner and pick it off the bowl to give to the dog that squeezed between my legs. After the meal, they insisted that I must have a bath. I wondered if this were some local cust ..." |
 | | Mao's Harvest(1st Edition) Voices from China's New Generation by Helen F. Siu, Zelda Stern Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1985 by Oxford University Press Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-503499-8, ISBN: 0-19-503499-6 "This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the "Mao Generation"--the first generation of Chinese to grow up under socialism. Drawn from both official Chinese literary journals and underground magazines, these previously untranslated stories provide a fascinating portrait of China in the seventies." |
 | | Asia Inside Out Connected Places by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. . Perdue Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2015 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-96768-7, ISBN: 0-674-96768-2 "Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries―sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain pass ..." |
 | | Asia Inside Out(1st Edition) Itinerant People by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Biao Xiang, Qiang Ma, David Ludden, Narges Erami, Seema Alavi, James Pickett, Tamara Loos, Erik Harms, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, May Bo Ching, Emma Jinhua Teng, William W. Kelly Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-98763-0, ISBN: 0-674-98763-2 "A pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or not.In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of people―and the ideas, practices, and things they brought with them―to show the ways in which itinerant groups have transfor ..." |
 | | Empire at the Margins Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China (Studies on China) by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, Donald S. Sutton Hardcover, 378 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23015-6, ISBN: 0-520-23015-9 "Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shapi ..." |
 | | Agents and Victims in South China(1st Edition) Accomplices in Rural Revolution by Helen F. Siu, Hf Siu Hardcover, 378 Pages, Published 1989 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-04465-2, ISBN: 0-300-04465-8 |
 | | Down to Earth(1st Edition) The Territorial Bond in South China by David Faure, Helen F. Siu Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 1995 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2434-0, ISBN: 0-8047-2434-2 "Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's. The delta is a rich and socially complex area of south China, and the contributors - scholars from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States - have long-standing t ..." |
 | | Furrows(1st Edition) Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State by Helen F. Siu Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 1990 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1805-9, ISBN: 0-8047-1805-9 "Hardback book (no dust jacket) titled FURROWS: Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State. (1990) See my photographs (3) of this book on main listing page, (LL-5-topshelf-L)" |
 | | Sars(1st Edition) Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities (Routledge Contemporary China Series) by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-65162-2, ISBN: 0-415-65162-X "SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantin ..." |
 | | Mao's Harvest(1st Edition) Voices from China's New Generation by Helen F. Siu, Zelda And Stern, Non Standard Hardcover, 231 Pages, Published 1983 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-503274-1, ISBN: 0-19-503274-8 "A collection of stories, essays, and poems by contemporary Chinese writers explores the conditions of life in modern China" |
 | | Tracing China A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey by F. Helen Siu, Ian Holliday Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2016 by Hong Kong University Press ISBN-13: 978-988-8083-73-2, ISBN: 988-8083-73-2 ""Tracing China" chronicles forty years of fieldwork. The journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China; it spans decades of persistent rural-urban divide and eventually uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Siu traverses both physical and cultural landscapes, examines how political tumults transform into everyday lives, and fathoms the depths of human drama a ..." |
 | | Merchants' Daughters Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China by F. Helen Siu Paperback, 388 Pages, Published 2010 by Hong Kong University Press ISBN-13: 978-988-8083-48-0, ISBN: 988-8083-48-1 "Merchants' Daughters turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present. It paints an extraordinarily complex portrait of women's maneuvering among multiple layers of social life, from the local to the transnational. - Susan Brownell, University ..." |
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