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The most comprehensive book to date on the relevant issues in Chinese film studies

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of Manchuria. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration.

Offers a nuanced discussion of domestic disorder, considering the sources of social dissidence, the varieties of domestic rebellion, the responses of the state and society to such uprisings, and the consequences of rebellion and suppression for a dynasty already shaken by foreign invasion.

Applies new critical methods to medieval works in the genre known as Music Bureau poetry (yuefu shi), stripping away layers of ossified conventional reading to expose the genre's vital core.