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Chinese New Year 2019

2019 is the Year of the Pig! To mark Chinese New Year 2019, we are offering free chapters and articles until end of February 2019 from a selection of books and journals on the history of China.

Free to read article: Reassessing the Hu-Wen Era by Jude Howell and Jane Duckett

Book
Animals through Chinese History
Edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer

Book
Rethinking China's Rise
Jilin Xu
Edited and translated by David Ownby

Book
Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Michel Hockx, Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler

Chapter
1 - Shang Sacrificial Animals
- By Adam C. Schwartz
Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Book: Animals through Chinese History

Chapter
1 - The Traveler
Jenny Huangfu Day, Skidmore College, New York
Book: Qing Travelers to the Far West

Chapter
1 - Merchants of an Imperial Trade
John W. Chaffee, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Book: The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China

Chapter
1 - Setting the Scene
Ronald C. Po, London School of Economics and Political Science
Book: The Blue Frontier

Chapter
One - The Stage
Mu-chou Poo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Book: Daily Life in Ancient China

Chapter
1 - What Kind of Civilization? China at a Crossroads
Jilin Xu, Shanghai Normal University
Edited and translated by David Ownby, Université de Montréal
Book: Rethinking China's Rise

Chapter
1 - Persuading with Pictures: Cover Art and The Ladies’ Journal (1915–1931)
from Part I - Methodologies: Framing, Constituting, and Regulating the Space of the Women's Journal
- By Julia F. Andrews
Edited by Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Joan Judge, York University, Toronto, Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg
Book: Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century

Chapter
Chapter 1 - Being, Society and World: Toward an Inter-Ontic Approach
Roderick Campbell, New York University
Book: Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State

Journal
The China Quarterly

Journal
Early China

Journal
The Journal of Asian Studies

Journal
Modern Asian Studies

Journal
International Journal of Asian Studies

Journal
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Journal
Journal of East Asian Studies

Journal
Journal of Chinese History

Book
To Govern China
Edited by Vivienne Shue, Patricia M. Thornton

Chapter
1 - Introduction
Brian Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Book: China's Conservative Revolution

Chapter
1 - Public Goods Provision in China and India
Selina Ho, National University of Singapore
Book: Thirsty Cities

Chapter
1 - Social Theory and the Multicultural World
from Part I - Culture and Social Theory
Yaqing Qin
Book: A Relational Theory of World Politics

Chapter
1 - China Model/Asia Model
William H. Overholt, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Book: China's Crisis of Success

Chapter
1 - Cultural Governance in Contemporary China: “Re-Orienting” Party Propaganda
from Manipulating Symbols and Sentiments
- By Elizabeth J. Perry
Edited by Vivienne Shue, University of Oxford, Patricia M. Thornton, University of Oxford
Book: To Govern China

Chapter
1 - Introduction: Party-Based Authoritarianism in China
from PART I - AUTOCRATIC GRASSROOTS POLITICS
Daniel Koss, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Book: Where the Party Rules