Revolutionizing the Party-state: The 1975 Chinese State Constitution by Mittelstaedt, J

“…Rejecting functionalist interpretations, I show how they are the result of unforeseen consequences resulting from decisions made in highly contingent situations. …”

Reclaiming rubbish: feiwu at the intersections of gender, class and disability in Xiao Hong's Market Street and Field of Life and Death by Jortay, C

“…In particular, I explore how the category of feiwu lays bare processes of marginalisation and dehumanisation, contextualising literary excerpts against New Life Movement slogans, satirical cartoons, and homemaking or hygienist press articles. I show how Xiao Hong’s works build through the category of feiwu a counter-discourse bearing on the representational entanglements of gender, class and disability, as materialised through animals (in Field of Life and Death) and through objects (in Market Street). …”

The streams of knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書 by Gandolfo, S

“…In the Introduction, I interrogate the methodological viability of a cross-cultural investigation and argue for a new conceptual framework to undertake such line of inquiry in the Chinese context. In Chapter 1, I show how the antecedent poetic understanding of knowledge as water determined the order of the Complete Writings. …”