Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who sh

1922/24 covers the report of the Board of Charities and Probation, 1922/23, and that of its successor, the Dept. of Public Welfare, 1923/24

1922/24 covers the report of the Board of Charities and Probation, 1922/23, and that of its successor, the Dept. of Public Welfare, 1923/24.

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubin