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- ISBN
- 9780804751483
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
080475148X
ISBN-13
9780804751483
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038687592
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Street Criers : a Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
Subject
Poverty & Homelessness, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-009127
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is an important read to anyone interested in topics associated with Chinese urban studies, Chinese labor, or Chinese underclasses."-- The Chinese Historical Review, "Lu's study will serve as a useful point of departure for further research into the world of the Chinese underclass. It also has much of interest for other aspects of Chinese society."-- "Journal of Asian Studies", "This is a well-researched, clearly presented, and carefully analyzed book, and a wonderful narrative history of beggars in modern China... In addition to a profound analysis of beggar issues, Lu gives us colorful stories of beggars struggling for their survival. This book offers us greater knowledge of lower-class people and their social environments, and should be recommended to scholars of China, students who are interested in China, and general readers."- International Journal of Asian Studies, "This is a well-researched, clearly presented, and carefully analyzed book, and a wonderful narrative history of beggars in modern China... In addition to a profound analysis of beggar issues, Lu gives us colorful stories of beggars struggling for their survival. This book offers us greater knowledge of lower-class people and their social environments, and should be recommended to scholars of China, students who are interested in China, and general readers."--International Journal of Asian Studies, "This is an important read to anyone interested in topics associated with Chinese urban studies, Chinese labor, or Chinese underclasses."-The Chinese Historical Review, "This is an important read to anyone interested in topics associated with Chinese urban studies, Chinese labor, or Chinese underclasses."— The Chinese Historical Review, "This is an important read to anyone interested in topics associated with Chinese urban studies, Chinese labor, or Chinese underclasses."- The Chinese Historical Review, "Faced with a lack of reliable data, Lu has chosen to employ as broad and variegated a host of sources as possible... all intermingle[d] to illustrate a history both colorful and entertaining. The amount of material uncovered is quite astonishing and easily proves Hanchao Lu's most salient point: beggars may have been socially marginal, but they did play an important role in the cultural imagination of late-imperial and Republican China... Lu presents the reader with a view of social life that is often overlooked, and his book plays an important role in reminding us of some of the costs of China's search for modernity."— China Review International, "Lu's study will serve as a useful point of departure for further research into the world of the Chinese underclass. It also has much of interest for other aspects of Chinese society."-- Journal of Asian Studies, "Lu's study will serve as a useful point of departure for further research into the world of the Chinese underclass. It also has much of interest for other aspects of Chinese society."- Journal of Asian Studies, The topic of Chinese beggar culture is important, intrinsically interesting, and (until now) badly underaddressed in Western Scholarship. This is a wonderful book, written in a style accessible to non-Sinologists., "Lu's study will serve as a useful point of departure for further research into the world of the Chinese underclass. It also has much of interest for other aspects of Chinese society."— Journal of Asian Studies, "This is a well-researched, clearly presented, and carefully analyzed book, and a wonderful narrative history of beggars in modern China... In addition to a profound analysis of beggar issues, Lu gives us colorful stories of beggars struggling for their survival. This book offers us greater knowledge of lower-class people and their social environments, and should be recommended to scholars of China, students who are interested in China, and general readers."-- International Journal of Asian Studies, "Faced with a lack of reliable data, Lu has chosen to employ as broad and variegated a host of sources as possible... all intermingle[d] to illustrate a history both colorful and entertaining. The amount of material uncovered is quite astonishing and easily proves Hanchao Lu's most salient point: beggars may have been socially marginal, but they did play an important role in the cultural imagination of late-imperial and Republican China... Lu presents the reader with a view of social life that is often overlooked, and his book plays an important role in reminding us of some of the costs of China's search for modernity."- China Review International, "Faced with a lack of reliable data, Lu has chosen to employ as broad and variegated a host of sources as possible... all intermingle[d] to illustrate a history both colorful and entertaining. The amount of material uncovered is quite astonishing and easily proves Hanchao Lu's most salient point: beggars may have been socially marginal, but they did play an important role in the cultural imagination of late-imperial and Republican China... Lu presents the reader with a view of social life that is often overlooked, and his book plays an important role in reminding us of some of the costs of China's search for modernity."-- China Review International, "This is a well-researched, clearly presented, and carefully analyzed book, and a wonderful narrative history of beggars in modern China... In addition to a profound analysis of beggar issues, Lu gives us colorful stories of beggars struggling for their survival. This book offers us greater knowledge of lower-class people and their social environments, and should be recommended to scholars of China, students who are interested in China, and general readers."— International Journal of Asian Studies
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.5/69/0951
Synopsis
This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars' culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics. Panoramically, the reader will see that the culture and institution of Chinese mendicancy, which had its origins in earlier centuries, remained remarkably consistent through time and space and that there were perennial and lively interactions between the world of beggars and mainstream society., This is a comprehensive study of beggars' culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a reference to the resurgence of beggars in China today.
LC Classification Number
HV4610
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