The human tradition in modern China
By: edited by Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton.
Contributors: Hammond, Kenneth James.; Stapleton, Kristin Eileen.
Series: Human tradition around the world
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780742554658; 9780742554665
Subjects: China -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Li Shizhen: early modern scientist / Kenneth J. Hammond; title: Amazon, artist, and adventurer: a courtesan in late imperial China / Daria Berg; title: Zou Boqi on vision and photography in nineteenth-century China / Oliver Moore; title: Ho Kai: a Chinese reformer in colonial Hong Kong / John Carroll; title: Der Ling: Manchu princess, cultural advisor, and author / Shuo Wang; title: Li Chenggan: patriot, populist, and factory patriarch / Joshua H. Howard; title: The Beijing University students in the May Fourth era: a collective biography / Fabio Lanza; title: The reluctant mendicant / Hugh Shapiro; title: Hu Lanqi: rebellious woman, revolutionary soldier, discarded heroine, triumphant Survivor / Kristin Stapleton; title: Zhao Ruiqin: a peasant woman in Gansu and domestic worker in Beijing / Pan Yihong.