Richard Belsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5183178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Belsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Belsky |
| SIGNATURE | BELSKY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Andrea S. Goldman. Opera and the City
Andrea S. Goldman has written a thoughtful study of the cultural and political context of operatic production, performance, and consumption in Beijing from the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Thoroughly researched, theoretically innovative, and engagingly written, this work is both a pleasure to read and a substantial contribution to our understanding of how the urban milieu of the late imperial capital city influenced and w…
The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949
Spymaster
The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of 'China's Himmler', based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its…
Placing the Hundred Days
Rethinking the 1898 reform period
The nine essays in this volume reexamine the hundred days in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernising China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the wo…
The Urban Ecology of Late Imperial Beijing Reconsidered
The Urban Ecology of Late Imperial Beijing Reconsidered
Placing the Hundred Days
Rethinking the 1898 reform period
The nine essays in this volume reexamine the hundred days in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernising China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the wo…
Spymaster
The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of 'China's Himmler', based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its…
The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949
Andrea S. Goldman. Opera and the City
Andrea S. Goldman has written a thoughtful study of the cultural and political context of operatic production, performance, and consumption in Beijing from the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Thoroughly researched, theoretically innovative, and engagingly written, this work is both a pleasure to read and a substantial contribution to our understanding of how the urban milieu of the late imperial capital city influenced and w…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · China (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Beijing (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)