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Chinese Worlds

About the Book Series

Chinese Worlds publishes high-quality scholarship, research monographs, and source collections on Chinese history and society. 'Worlds' signals the diversity of China, the cycles of unity and division through which China's modern history has passed, and recent research trends toward regional studies and local issues. It also signals that Chineseness is not contained within borders - ethnic migrant communities overseas are also 'Chinese worlds.'

30 Series Titles


The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard: Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

1st Edition

By Daria Arincheva, Alexander Pantsov
October 07, 2024

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the ...

A Road Is Made Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927

A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927

1st Edition

By Steve Smith
December 18, 2020

This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the party's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies and its workers, and examines the efforts to transform...

Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States

Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship: Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States

1st Edition

By Lisong Liu
June 30, 2017

Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and ...

Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia On Contextualisation in International Business Studies

Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia: On Contextualisation in International Business Studies

1st Edition

By Michael Jakobsen
May 25, 2017

The study of ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia has a long tradition. What is most striking in these studies is just how difficult it is to generalise about this ethnic group in the region. Whether or not they have been able to identify as Chinese has to a certain extend depended on different ...

The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927

The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927

1st Edition

By Alexander Pantsov
July 12, 2016

Based mainly on unknown Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this book analyses the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception in China. Issues include the role of the three Bolshevik leaders, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in trying to lead the ...

Paradoxes of Labour Reform Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market

Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market

1st Edition

By Luigi Tomba
June 03, 2016

Labour reform is only one component of the larger process of reforming economy and society experienced by China over the last three decades. This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China: an experimental and self-fulfilling ...

Diasporic Chinese Ventures The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

1st Edition

Edited By GREGOR BENTON, Hong Liu
May 31, 2016

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's ...

Internal and International Migration Chinese Perspectives

Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Hein Mallee, Frank N. Pieke
May 31, 2016

Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas...

Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

1st Edition

By Anne-Marie Brady
March 03, 2016

This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the ...

The Politics of Rural Reform in China State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s

The Politics of Rural Reform in China: State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s

1st Edition

By Christian Göbel
January 20, 2016

Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also ...

Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC Global Rise in Chinese Eyes

Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC: Global Rise in Chinese Eyes

1st Edition

By Gotelind Mueller
July 31, 2015

Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an ...

Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China

Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China

1st Edition

Edited By Anne-Marie Brady, Douglas Brown
February 27, 2015

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, ...

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