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asian studies
beyond suffering
recounting War in modern China
Edited by James Flath and Norman Smith
China was afflicted by a brutal succession of
conflicts through much of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been
clear understanding of how wartime suffering
has defined the nation and shaped its people. In
Beyond Suffering, experts in Chinese history draw
on often fragmentary accounts of nearly forgotten
incidents to piece together the multiple fronts –
social, institutional, and cultural – on which wars
have been fought, experienced, and remembered.
From the Blagoveshchensk Massacre to the trials
of the Jiangxi Number One Children’s Home,
these accounts of war-inflicted suffering bring us
closer to understanding the larger problem of war
and militarism in China.
JAmEs A. FlATh is an associate professor in
the Department of History at the University of
Western Ontario . NormAN smiTh is an associate
professor in the Department of History at the
University of Guelph .
neW release
May 2011 , 320 pages, 6 x 9 "
6 photos, 2 maps, 3 tables
978-0-7748-1955-8 hC $85.00
978-0-7748-1957-2 librAry E-book
Chinese Studies , Asian History , Military History
ContemPorarY CHineSe StudieS SerieS
asian studies
keeping the Nation’s house
domestic management and the making of modern China
Helen M. Schneider
The term home economics often conjures images
of girls learning to cook dinner and swaddle dolls
in sterile classrooms far removed from the seats of
power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption
by revealing how Chinese women helped to build
a nation one family at a time. From the 1920s to
the early 1950s, home economists transformed
the most fundamental of political spaces – the
home – by teaching women to nurture ideal
families and manage projects of social reform.
Although their discipline came undone after 1949,
its legacies of gendered professions and leaders’
attempts to shape the domestic rituals of the
people lived on.
hElEN m. sChNEiDEr is an assistant professor
at Virginia Tech and a research associate at the
University of Oxford.
neW release
February 2011 , 304 pages, 6 x 9 "
16 photos and 1 map
978-0-7748-1997-8 hC $85.00
978-0-7748-1999-2 librAry E-book
Chinese Studies , Women’s Studies ,
Education History
ContemPorarY CHineSe StudieS SerieS
asian studies
Eating bitterness
new Perspectives on China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine
Edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer
When the Chinese Communist Party came to
power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that “not
even one person shall die of hunger.” Yet some
30 million peasants died of starvation and
exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward.
Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women
in rural and urban settings, from the provincial
level to the grassroots, experienced the changes
brought on by the party leaders’ attempts to
modernize China. This landmark volume lifts
the curtain of party propaganda to expose the
suffering of citizens and the deeply-contested
nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.
kimbErlEy ENs mANNiNG is an assistant
professor of political science at Concordia
University. FEliX WEmhEUEr is an assistant
professor in the Department for East Asian
Studies at the University of Vienna.
recently released
December 2010 , 352 pages, 6 x 9 "
978-0-7748-1726-4 hC $90.00
978-0-7748-1728-8 librAry E-book
Chinese Studies , Asian History
ContemPorarY CHineSe StudieS SerieS
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