2022年北美中国史博士资格考书单（清-当代）

Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History

Comps Major Reading List (July 2022)

Historical Context and Theoretical Debates (11)

1. Fairbank, John King. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854. Vol. 62. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953.

2. Cohen, Paul. Discovering History in China. Harvard University Press, 1984.

3. Hevia, James, Cherishing Men from Afar. Duke University Press, 1995.

4. Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation. Duke University Press, 1995.

5. Huang, Philip C. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Stanford University Press, 1990.

6. Wong, Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Cornell University Press, 1997.

7. Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000.

8. Zelin, Madeleine. The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. Columbia University Press, 2006.

9. Ho, Ping-ti. “In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski’s ‘Reenvisioning the Qing.’” The Journal of Asian Studies 57.1 (1998): 123-155.

10. Rawski, Evelyn S. “Presidential address: Re-envisioning the Qing.” Journal of Asian Studies 55.4 (1996): 829-850.

11. Hershatter, Gail, and Wang Zheng. “Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis.” The American Historical Review 113.5 (2008): 1404-1421.

Woman, Gender and Family (17)

1. Mann, Susan. Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford University Press, 1997.

2. Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. University of California Press, 1997.

3. Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford University Press, 1995.

4. Ko, Dorothy. Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2005.

5. Theiss, Janet M. Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

6. Gilmartin. Christina K. Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movement in the 1920s. University of California Press, 1995.

7. Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

8. Hershatter, Gail. Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 2007.

9. Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. University of California Press, 2003.

10. Sommer, Mathew. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

11. Sommer, Matthew. Polyandry and Wife-selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions. University of California Press, 2015.

12. Liu, Lydia He, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko, eds. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Columbia University Press, 2013.

13. Ma, Zhao. Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949. Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.

14. Ransmeier, Johanna S. Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. Harvard University Press, 2017.

15. Zhang, Ying. Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China. University of Washington Press, 2017.

16. Lu, Weijing. Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China. University of Washington Press, 2021.

17. Du, Yue. State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Law, Crime, Justice (21)

1. MacCormack, Geoffrey. Traditional Chinese Penal Law. Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

2. Alford, William P. “Of Arsenic and Old Laws: Looking Anew at Criminal Justice in Late Imperial China,” California Law Review 72 (1984): 1180-1250.

3. McKnight, Brian E. Law and Order in Sung China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

4. Alford, William P. “Law, Law, What Law: Why Western Scholars of China Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law,” in Karen G. Turner, James V. Feinerman, and R. Kent Guy, The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, 45-58.

5. Alford, William. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. Stanford University Press, 1997.

6. Ocko, Jonathan K. “I’ll Take It All the Way to Beijing: Capital Appeals in the Qing,” The Journal of Asian Studies 47, no. 2 (May 1988): 291-315.

7. Hansen, Valerie. Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary Life Used Contracts, 600-1400. Yale University Press, 1995.

8. Bernhardt, Kathryn. Women and Property in China: 960-1949. Stanford University Press, 1999.

9. Huang, Philip C.C. Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing. Stanford University Press, 1996.

10. Huang, Philip C.C. Code, Custom and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared. Stanford University Press, 2001.

11. Huang, Philip C.C. Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present. Stanford University Press, 2010.

12. Buoye, Thomas M. Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

13. Dikotter, Frank. Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949. Columbia University Press, 2002.

14. Birge, Bettine. Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China: 960-1368. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

15. Brook, Timothy, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue. Death by a Thousand Cuts. Harvard University Press, 2008.

16. Chen, Li. Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice and Transcultural Politics. Columbia University Press, 2015.

17. Asen, Daniel. Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

18. Zhang, Taisu. The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

19. Altehenger, Jennifer. Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Harvard University Press, 2018.

20. Wang, Fei-Hsien. Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China, Princeton University Press, 2019.

21. Zhang, Ting. Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China. University of Washington Press, 2020.

Frontier, Ethnicity, Empire (16)

1. Bartlett, Beatrice S. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch’ing China, 1723–1820. University of California Press, 1990.

2. Crossley, Pamela Kyle. Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. Princeton University Press, 1990.

3. Rawski, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions. Univ of California Press, 1998.

4. Millward, James A. Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864. Stanford University Press, 1998.

5. Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. University of California Press, 1999.

6. Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2001.

7. Chang, Michael G. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring & the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680–1785. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

8. Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Harvard University Press, 2010.

9. David A. Bello, Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

10. Mosca, Matthew W. From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China. Stanford University Press, 2013.

11. Rawski, Evelyn S. Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

12. Schlesinger, Jonathan. A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. Stanford University Press, 2016.

13. Chen, Shuang. State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China. Stanford University Press, 2017.

14. Oidmann, Max. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. Columbia University Press, 2018.

15. Giersch, C. Patterson. Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. Stanford University Press, 2020.

16. Schluessel, Eric. Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia. Columbia University Press, 2020.

Modernity, Nationalism, Scientism (17)

1. Kuhn, Philip A. Origins of the Modern Chinese State. Stanford University Press, 2002.

2. Elman, Benjamin A. On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900. Harvard University Press, 2005.

3. Liu, Lydia H. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity China, 1900-1937. Stanford University Press, 1995.

4. Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. University of California Press, 2004.

5. Meng, Yue. Shanghai and the Edges of Empires. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

6. Lean, Eugenia. Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China. University of California Press, 2007.

7. Harrison, Henrietta. The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942. Stanford University Press, 2005.

8. Lee, Haiyan. Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. Stanford University Press, 2010.

9. Lam, Tong. A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation State,1900-1949. University of California Press, 2011.

10. Mullaney, Thomas S. Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press, 2011.

11. Mullaney, Thomas. The Chinese Typewriter: A History. MIT Press, 2017.

12. Chen, Janet Y. Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953. Princeton University Press, 2012.

13. Rowe, William T. Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China. Harvard University Press, 2018.

14. Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity. The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

15. Baum, Emily. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

16. Bian, He. Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China. Princeton University Press, 2020.

17. Lean, Eugenia. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetic Empire, 1900-1940. Columbia University Press, 2020.

Socialism, Revolution and Red China (18)

1. Perry, Elizabeth J. “Studying Chinese Politics: Farewell to Revolution?”. The China Journal, no. 57 (2007): 1-22.

2. Esherick, Joseph. “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution.” Modern China 21, no. 1 (1995): 45-76.

3. Wemheuer, Felix. A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949-1976. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

4. Karl, Rebecca. China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History. Verso, 2020.

5. Thornton, Patricia M. Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State‐Making in Modern China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

6. Eyferth, Jacob. Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.

7. Li, Huaiyin. Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008. Stanford University Press, 2009.

8. Leese, Daniel. Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in the Cultural Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

9. Mittler, Barbara. A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. Harvard University Press, 2013.

10. Wu, Yiching. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis. Harvard University Press, 2014.

11. Brown. Jeremy & Matthew D. Johnson eds. Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism. Harvard University Press, 2015.

12. Yang, Guobin. The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China. Columbia University Press, 2016.

13. Schmalzer, Singrid. Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

14. Tan, Hecheng. The Killing Wind: A Chinese County’s Descent into Madness During the Cultural Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017.

15. Ho, Denise Y. Curating Revolution Politics on Display in Mao’s China. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

16. Ghosh, Arunabh. Making it Count: Statistics and State-society Relations in the Early People’s Republic of China 1949-1959. Princeton University Press, 2020.

17. Cliver, Robert. Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry. Harvard University Press, 2020.

18. Esherick, Joseph W. Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China. University of California Press, 2022.