The new edition of this outstanding documents collection displays a stronger blend of social history--pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture--and political history--critical proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts. Many of the documents are translated into[...]

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, "Guilty of Indigence" examines [...]