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Books Available in the Bookstore (Fall 2005)

Multiple copies of these books are also available on reserve in the library. See Course Reserve List for listing of books on reserve by week.

See Class Schedule for listings of specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.

Books with substantial assigned readings

  • Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. (req)
  • Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe, 1997. (req)
  • Schwartz, Ronald. Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. (req)
  • Shakya, Tsering. The Dragon in the Land of the Snows. NY: Columbia University Press, 1999. (req)
  • Honig and Hershatter, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. (req)
  • Dutton, Michael. Streetlife China. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 (req)

Recommended Books (only a portion assigned, only a few copies available)

  • Goldstein, Melvyn. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama.Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1997. (rec)
  • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. 1991 (1988). (rec)
  • Gupta and Ferguson, eds. Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. (rec)
  • Harrel, Stevan, ed. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1995. (rec)
  • Nira Yuval Davis. Gender and Nation, Sage: London, 1997. (rec)
  • Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, 1989. (rec)
  • China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Duke University Press, 2001. (rec)
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