This paper focuses on imaginative representations of peasants at the"gate"of the law in fiction and graphic arts in different periods,exploring the visualization of regimes and the ways to express the relationship amo...
The Qing dynasty's encounter with Western empires is best understood as representing neither a clash of civilizations, nor China's failure to adapt to supposedly more sophisticated modes of commerce and governance. ...
For a long period Ye Shengtao's "The Emperor's New Clothes" has been read as a simple fairytale along with his other fairytale writings. Its politico-philosophical implications thus is blurred by students' focus ...