This series seeks to make available the best scholarly work on contemporary China. Volumes cover a wide range of subjects related to China, Taiwan, and the overseas Chinese world.


2012
A School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Elizabeth R. VanderVen

2011
Beyond Suffering
Recounting War in Modern China
James Flath and Norman Smith, eds.

Keeping the Nation's House
Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
Helen M. Schneider

2010
Eating Bitterness
New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine
Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer, eds.

Smokeless Sugar
The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
Emily M. Hill

Administering the Colonizer
Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29
Blaine Chiasson

Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
Richard King, ed.

2009
The New Silk Road Diplomacy
China's Central Asian Foreign Policy Since the Cold War
Hasan H. Karrar

2007
The Chinese State at the Borders
Diana Lary, ed.

Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
Norman Smith

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
Xiaoping Cong

2006
Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
Hsiao-ting Lin

2004
Obedient Autonomy
Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
Erika E.S. Evasdottir

The Cult of Happiness
Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
James A. Flath

Gutenberg in Shanghai
Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
Christopher A. Reed

2003
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
Eliza W.Y. Lee, ed.

2001
Scars of War
The Impact of Warfare on Modern China
Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon

Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen
Yijiang Ding

1999
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80
The Pursuit of Identity and Power
Wing Chung Ng

1997
The Power of Words
Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95
Glen Peterson