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Street Criers(1st Edition)
A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
by Hanchao Lu
Hardcover, 287 Pages, Published 2005 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5148-3, ISBN: 0-8047-5148-X

"This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various ..."

Shanghai Future(1st Edition)
Modernity Remade
by Anna Dr Greenspan
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-020669-7, ISBN: 0-19-020669-1

"China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanization the world has ever known, and Shanghai -- its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city -- is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century. Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful -- even exultant -- futurism, Shanghai recalls the older and much criticized project of imagining, planning and building the modern metropolis. Today, among Westerners, at le ..."

An Artistic Exile(1st Edition)
A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)
by Geremie Randall Barmé
Hardcover, 558 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20832-2, ISBN: 0-520-20832-3

"This engrossing book, a brilliant blend of biography and criticism, tells the story of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), one of the most gifted and important artists to emerge from the politically tumultuous decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Barmé provides a closely woven parallel history, that of the life of writer-artist Feng, who was also an essayist and a translator, and that of China's turbulent twentieth century. He investigates Feng Zikai's ..."