Looks at aspects of the Guilds of Peking from their origin and history, membership, organization, meetings, finances, and charitable work.

Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China In Pirates and

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the “hundred days” in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal i