Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society and history of the obscure rural county

Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as traditional and unchanging, historians have long regarded fashion as somet

Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present.

Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.

This book explores a Zhuang native chieftaincy enfranchised under the Chinese tusi system, and its relationship with the Chinese imperial state. It sheds critic