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To the People: James Yen and Village China
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The article was published on 1990-10-15 and is currently open access. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: China.read more
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China urban : ethnographies of contemporary culture
TL;DR: In this paper, Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang, and Li Zhang focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and transformations in access to healthcare.
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Knowledge and Empire: The Social Sciences and United States Imperial Expansion
TL;DR: The relationship between the social sciences in the U.S. and the formation of empire is explored in this article, where the authors argue that the peculiar way the United States has established a global presence during the 20th century by establishing a commercial empire rather than territorially-based colonies has generated on the part of state and corporation an unusual interest in the knowledge produced by social scientists.
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Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity: China's Korean War Germ-Warfare Experience Reconsidered
TL;DR: According to official PRC reports, on the night of April 4, 1952, hundreds of small rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county in western Heilongjiang province.
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Breeding A Better China: Pigs, Practices, and Place in a Chinese County, 1929–1937*
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors attempted to transform pigs and pig breeding in Dingxian, Hebei, through the importation of an American breed of pig and its hybr...
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A century of rural self-governance reforms: reimagining rural Chinese society in the post-taxation era
TL;DR: The authors argued that contemporary rural advocates find themselves in a situation similar to that of the first half of the twentieth century, and their reimagination of rural governance draws on the ideas of that time as well.
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China urban : ethnographies of contemporary culture
TL;DR: In this paper, Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang, and Li Zhang focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and transformations in access to healthcare.
Journal ArticleDOI
Knowledge and Empire: The Social Sciences and United States Imperial Expansion
TL;DR: The relationship between the social sciences in the U.S. and the formation of empire is explored in this article, where the authors argue that the peculiar way the United States has established a global presence during the 20th century by establishing a commercial empire rather than territorially-based colonies has generated on the part of state and corporation an unusual interest in the knowledge produced by social scientists.
Journal ArticleDOI
Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity: China's Korean War Germ-Warfare Experience Reconsidered
TL;DR: According to official PRC reports, on the night of April 4, 1952, hundreds of small rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county in western Heilongjiang province.
Journal ArticleDOI
Breeding A Better China: Pigs, Practices, and Place in a Chinese County, 1929–1937*
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors attempted to transform pigs and pig breeding in Dingxian, Hebei, through the importation of an American breed of pig and its hybr...
Journal ArticleDOI
A century of rural self-governance reforms: reimagining rural Chinese society in the post-taxation era
TL;DR: The authors argued that contemporary rural advocates find themselves in a situation similar to that of the first half of the twentieth century, and their reimagination of rural governance draws on the ideas of that time as well.