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Street Criers : A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars by Hanchao Lu (2005, Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 288. Language: English. Author: Lu, Hanchao (Author). Weight: 1.15 lbs. Publication Date: 2005-10-06. Publisher: Stanford University Press.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-10080475148X

ISBN-139780804751483

eBay Product ID (ePID)12038687592

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStreet Criers : a Cultural History of Chinese Beggars

SubjectPoverty & Homelessness, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science

AuthorHanchao Lu

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight22.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-009127

Dewey Edition22

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

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.5/69/0951

SynopsisThis 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 NumberHV4610