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This is the first comprehensive English anthology of poetry from China's last great dynasty, the period 1644-1911. Waiting for the Unicorn is a direct descendant of Sunflower Splendor. After that seminal volume was published, it became clear that many scholars and students wanted more detailed coverage of specific dynasties. The Ch'ing Dynasty was the obvious place to start. This volume presents the works of seventy-two individual poets from Sung Wan (1614-1673) to Ch'iu Chin (1877-1907) and Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927). Over forty scholars in the United States and Canada have been working together with Professors Lo and Schultz for more than half a dozen years in the selection and preparation of these translations. Besides the translations themselves, there is a short bio-critical essay on each poet and an introduction by the editors.

Qing Dynasty (China) --- Chinese poetry. --- Chinese poetry --- Chinese literature --- Anthologies: general

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Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation’s long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation—a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China’s triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn’s panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.

Qing Dynasty (China). --- China --- History --- Beijing Student Movement. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- Chinese Communist Party. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- GMD. --- Guangzhou. --- Guomindang. --- Heavenly Kingdom. --- Jiang Zemin. --- Lin Biao. --- Manchuria. --- Mao Zedong. --- New Democracy. --- PRC. --- Qing. --- collectivization.

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"The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China's entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." During the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But political and cultural discussion repeatedly erupted into invective, as critics jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this era--from the 1890s up to the 1930s--transformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughter--jokes, play, mockery, farce, and humor--he reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern China's first "age of irreverence." This new history offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, and discusses its legacy in the language and styles of Chinese humor today.--Provided by publisher.

S02/0200 --- S16/0490 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Wit and humour, proverbs, an ecdotes, cartoons --- Chinese wit and humor --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- History --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Chinese literature --- asian history. --- asian literary criticism. --- asian literature. --- buffoonery. --- china. --- chinese cultural modernity. --- chinese government. --- chinese history. --- chinese republic. --- comedy. --- cultural expressions of laughter. --- cultural studies. --- end of the qing dynasty. --- farce. --- funny. --- histories of laughter. --- history. --- humor. --- humorous allegories. --- jokes. --- laughter. --- mockery. --- modern age. --- new government. --- play. --- political commentary. --- popular culture. --- popular press. --- practical joking. --- public discourse. --- qing dynasty. --- social commentary. --- youmo.

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"This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man. Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric "illicit sexual relations," Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women's history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China."--Provided by publisher.

Married women --- Polyandry --- Rural poor --- S11/0610 --- S11/0710 --- S11/0740 --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Polygamy --- Married people --- Women --- Wives --- Social conditions --- China: Social sciences--Marriage, love --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Sexual life: general and before 1949 --- Economic conditions --- China --- Armut. --- Ehefrau. --- Frauenhandel. --- Justiz. --- Landbevölkerung. --- Ländlicher Raum. --- Polyandrie. --- Polyandry. --- Qingdynastie. --- Rural poor. --- Social conditions. --- 1644 - 1912. --- China. --- Married women -- China -- Social conditions -- Case studies.. --- Polyandry -- China -- Case studies.. --- Rural poor -- China -- Case studies. --- asian culture. --- asian studies. --- chinese culture. --- chinese law. --- chinese wives. --- east asian history. --- gender studies. --- history of wife selling. --- imperial china. --- late imperial china. --- marital practices in imperial china. --- marriage and family in china. --- marriage and sex in china. --- marriage in china. --- multiple spouses in china. --- polyandry. --- polygamy in rural poor. --- qing china. --- qing dynasty history. --- qing dynasty. --- rural poor in china. --- second husbands in china. --- social history of china. --- wife selling in china. --- wife selling in qing china.

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This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.

Childbirth --- Women's health services --- History. --- China --- Social life and customs --- 17th century. --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- childbearing. --- childbirth. --- china. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- conception. --- cultural history. --- dangers of childbirth. --- development of medicine. --- fuke. --- health issues. --- historical periods. --- historical perspective. --- ideological issues. --- late imperial china. --- late imperial medicine. --- medical writings. --- medicine. --- miscarriage. --- nonfiction. --- pregnancy. --- qing dynasty. --- reproductive diseases. --- women. --- womens bodies. --- womens issues. --- womens medicine.