Robert J. Antony

Broschiertes Buch

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Glimpses of China's Hidden Past

Beschreibung

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals Chinaâ s history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folk studies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, sorcerers, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China.

Autor

Before his retirement in 2019, Robert J. Antony was distinguished professor and senior researcher at Guangzhou University. He is the author of Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003), Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China (2016), and The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810: A Short History with Documents (2022). He now lives with his wife near Princeton, New Jersey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781538169339
• ISBN-10: 1538169339
• Artikelnr.: 64944371