Nyiri explores recent challenges to state authority as Chinese citizens become increasingly mobile as migrant workers, tourists, and students, both inside China

Explores China's rich visual culture from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day.

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of soc

Charts Western influence and national development. Beginning with the mid-19th century, when China encountered the West and began to enter the modern age, this

This book examines three overarching themes: Chinese modernity's (sometimes ambivalent) relationship to tradition at the start of the twentieth century, the pro