Pines, Yuri et al., eds. 2014.
Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society). Berkeley: University of California Press.
AbstractIn 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
Naftali, Orna . 2014.
Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens. Palgrave Macmillan.
AbstractA timely, original study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in contemporary urban China, which draws on diverse evidence from Chinese government, academic, media, and pedagogic publications, as well as on participant observation and interviews in two primary schools and among elite and middle class families in Shanghai, China. Drawing on rich, ethnographic data, this book debunks many popular and scholarly stereotypes about the predominance of Confucian ideas of parental authority in China or about the indifference to individual human rights in the political and public culture of the PRC. This book also recognizes the complexities and conflicts that exist in Chinese discourses about and practices toward children, as older ideas of filiality, neoliberal ideologies, and the new awareness of children's right to privacy, to expressing their views, and to protection against violence compete and collude in complicated, often contradictory ways.
Bronner, Yigal, David Shulman, and Gary Tubb. 2014.
Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kavya Literature. 1st ed. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
Ben-Rafael Galanti, Sigal, Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin, and Alon Levkowitz. 2014.
Japan's Multilayered Democracy. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Shulman, David, ed. 2014.
Meditations on Authority. The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
