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A Mosaic of the Hundred Days

Author : Luke S. K. Kwong
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674587427
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book A Mosaic of the Hundred Days written by Luke S. K. Kwong and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Luke S.K. Kwong --Introduction /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Crisis of Imperial Authority /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Victim /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Scholars in Court Politics /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Scholar-Celebrity /Luke S.K. Kwong --An Incipient Radicalism /Luke S.K. Kwong --K'ang's Third “March” on Peking /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Hundred Days /Luke S.K. Kwong --The K'wang Yu-wei Affair /Luke S.K. Kwong --The Coup d'Etat /Luke S.K. Kwong --Epilogue /Luke S.K. Kwong --Weng T'ung-ho's Dismissal: A Further Consideration /Luke S.K. Kwong --Notes /Luke S.K. Kwong --Bibliography /Luke S.K. Kwong --Glossary /Luke S.K. Kwong --Index /Luke S.K. Kwong --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Luke S.K. Kwong.

A Mosaic of the Hundred Days

Author : Luke S. K. Kwong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172462
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book A Mosaic of the Hundred Days written by Luke S. K. Kwong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the interplay among people and of events leading up to the reform acts of 1898--the Hundred Days--and their abrupt termination presents a new interpretation of the late Ch'ing political scene. The Emperor, the Empress-Dowager, and high-court personalities are followed through the maze of motives and relationships that characterized the power structure in Peking. Of special interest is Kwong's treatment of K'ang-Yu-Wei, often viewed as the Emperor's advisor during this period and a major source of reform policy, a prominance largely derived from his own writings and those of Liange Ch'i-ch'ao. Those sources are here examined and shown to be less than objective, and K'ang's role is assessed as far more peripheral than heretofore believed.

T'an Ssu-t'ung, 1865-1898

Author : Luke Kwong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448292X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book T'an Ssu-t'ung, 1865-1898 written by Luke Kwong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study in English on T'an Ssu-t'ung, a well-known scholar-reformer in late-Ch'ing China. Based on a rich variety of primary sources, it traces T'an's progress from his early years to his summary execution during the palace coup in 1898. The Introduction explains the premises and sources pertinent to this study, while the Epilogue provides an overall interpretation of T'an's life. The remaining eight chapters are organized in such a way as to allow a chronological and thematic appreciation of the book's subject matter. This is more than a biography of a remarkable individual. By placing T'an's personal experience in the larger social and political contexts, it also sheds light on an emergent intellectual community in modern China.

Discovering History in China

Author : Paul A Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023152546X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Discovering History in China written by Paul A Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today. Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of Western history. To this end, he uncovers the strong ethnocentric bias pervading the three major conceptual frameworks of American scholarship of the 1950s and 1960s: the impact-response, modernization, and imperialism approaches. In place of these, Cohen favors a "China-centered" approach in which historians understand Chinese history on its own terms, paying close attention to Chinese historical trajectories and Chinese perceptions of their problems, rather than a set of expectations derived from Western history. In an important new introduction, Cohen reflects on his fifty-year career as a historian of China and discusses major recent trends in the field. Although some of these developments challenge a narrowly conceived China-centered approach, insofar as they enable more balanced comparisons between China and the West and recast the Chinese and their history in more human, less exotic terms, they powerfully affirm the central thrust of Cohen's work.

Orphan Warriors

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224986
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Orphan Warriors written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the descendants of these conquering people were coming to terms with a loss of legal definition, an ever-steeper decline in living standards, and a sense of abandonment by the Qing court. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), Orphan Warriors is the first attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. The book reveals that the Manchus were not "sinicized," but that they were growing in consciousness of their separate ethnicity in response to changes in their own position and in Chinese attitudes toward them. Pamela Kyle Crossley's treatment of the Suwan Guwalgiya family of Hangzhou is hinged upon Jinliang (1878-1962), who was viewed at various times as a progressive reformer, a promising scholar, a bureaucratic hack, a traitor, and a relic. The author sees reflected in the ambiguities of his persona much of the plight of other Manchus as they were transformed from a conquering caste to an ethnic minority. Throughout Crossley explores the relationships between cultural decline and cultural survival, polity and identity, ethnicity and the disintegration of empires, all of which frame much of our understanding of the origins of the modern world.

The Big Cheat (Da ma bian): A Late Qing Novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004541497
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Big Cheat (Da ma bian): A Late Qing Novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is a scathing portrayal of the reformer Kang Youwei by the revolutionary Huang Shizhong at a critical juncture in Beijing imperial rule and overseas Chinese politics.

Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937

Author : Yu Sang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004431586
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937 written by Yu Sang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Xiong Shili’s Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937, SANG Yu presents a detailed examination and analysis of how Xiong Shili gradually established his philosophical system of Reality (ti) and Function (yong), a key conceptual polarity in traditional Chinese philosophy.

Learning to Rule

Author : Daniel Barish
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231554966
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Rule written by Daniel Barish and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imperialist aggression. At the same time, the enthronement of a series of children brought the question of reconstruction into the heart of the capital. Chinese scholars, Manchu and Mongolian officials, and writers in the press all competed to have their ideas included in the education of young rulers. Each group hoped to use the power of the emperor—both his functional role within the bureaucracy and his symbolic role as an exemplar for the people—to promote reform. Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for divergent visions of how to restabilize the country. He sheds light on the efforts of rival figures, who drew on China’s dynastic history, Manchu traditions, and the statecraft tools of imperial powers as they sought to remake the state. Barish traces how court education reflected arguments over the introduction of Western learning, the fate of the Manchu Way, the place of women in society, notions of constitutionalism, and emergent conceptions of national identity. He emphasizes how changing ideas of education intersected with a push for a renewed imperial center and national unity, helping create a model of rulership for postimperial regimes. Through the lens of the education of young emperors, Learning to Rule develops a new understanding of the late Qing era and the relationship between the monarchy and the nation in modern China.

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

Author : Urs Matthias Zachmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134017197
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period written by Urs Matthias Zachmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered a long period of domestic unrest and foreign intervention. Repercussions of these developments can be still felt, especially in the mutual perceptions of Chinese and Japanese people today. However, despite considerable scholarship on Sino-Japanese relations, the perplexing question remains how the Japanese attitude exactly changed after the triumphant victory in 1895 over its former role model and competitor. This book examines the transformation of Japan’s attitude toward China up to the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904/5), when the psychological framework within which future Chinese-Japanese relations worked reached its erstwhile completion. It shows the transformation process through a close reading of sources, a large number of which is introduced to the scholarly discussion for the first time. Zachmann demonstrates how modern Sino-Japanese attitudes were shaped by a multitude of factors, domestic and international, and, in turn, informed Japan’s course in international politics. Winner of the JaDe Prize 2010 awarded by the German Foundation for the Promotion of Japanese-German Culture and Science Relations

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

Author : Humphrey Ko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811026602
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Modern Chinese State written by Humphrey Ko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China serve to illuminate key aspects of Chinese political economy and illustrate the importance of legal frameworks in the emergence of industrial enterprises. Examining the centrality of legal personality in China’s historical story, seen from the angle of cement manufacturing corporations, it offers an alternative historical perspective on the making of the modern Chinese States and delves into the involvement of larger-than-life historical figures of modern China such as Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek and the revolutionary and the father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, in the unfolding of these events.

China, 1895-1912 State-Sponsored Reforms and China's Late-Qing Revolution

Author : Zhongguo Jindai Shi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315480883
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book China, 1895-1912 State-Sponsored Reforms and China's Late-Qing Revolution written by Zhongguo Jindai Shi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering recent scholarship in Chinese historiography, this text focuses on radical, even revolutionary, changes of the period 1895-1912. The book investigates intellectual and institutional changes associated with the government's Xinzheng or New Systems reforms.

Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period

Author : Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173744
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period written by Rebecca E. Karl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modernizing 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 “new” woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experience of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways.

Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization

Author : Liel Leibovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080331
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization written by Liel Leibovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With its surging storyline, extraordinary events, and depth of character, this gripping tale of 120 Chinese boys sent to America…reads more like a novel than an obscure slice of history." —Publishers Weekly, starred review In 1872, China—ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies—sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England’s finest schools and were driven by a desire for progress and reform. When anti-Chinese fervor forced them back home, the young men had to overcome a suspicious imperial court and a country deeply resistant to change in technology and culture. Fortunate Sons tells a remarkable story, weaving together the dramas of personal lives with the fascinating tale of a nation’s endeavor to become a world power.

Modern China

Author : Ke-wen Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583250
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Modern China written by Ke-wen Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts Western influence and national development. Beginning with the mid-19th century, when China encountered the West and began to enter the modern age, this encyclopedia offers an overview of the world's largest and most populous nation. The coverage includes not only major political topics, but also surveys the arts, business, literature, education, journalism, and all other major aspects of the nation's social, cultural, and economic life. The encyclopedia also offers significant material on such often neglected subjects as women and minorities, modern drama, Sino-French War, the federalist movement, overseas Chinese, Mongolian independence, and more. Special emphasis throughout is on the dramatic changes that have taken place in the country since the end of World War II. Provides an overview of the modern era. The entries are written by China specialists, who are thoroughly familiar with every aspect of the nation and its peoples. While history predominates, the articles cover all academic fields and include considerable material on recent decades as well as on earlier periods. There are entries on national political leaders and key thinkers, major events and trends in the nation's history, institutions, organizations, and currents of thought that led to the emergence of the modern nation. The encyclopedia's longer essays offer detailed and insightful surveys of censorship, important eras, literary movements, powerful social groups, anti-imperialism campaigns, Five Year Plans, the Sino-Vietnamese War, economic breakthroughs, and other vital topics. The coverage is informed by a thorough exploration of the historical role of Chinese nationalism, a potent force that was shaped by the need to retain national unity and independence under foreign assault.

China, 1898–1912

Author : Douglas R. Reynolds
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173000
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book China, 1898–1912 written by Douglas R. Reynolds and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging most accounts of China's revolutionary transformation at the turn of the century, Douglas Reynolds argues that the political toppling of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the Xinzheng or "New System" reforms of the late-Qing government itself. He then provides a detailed account of the debt those reforms owed to Japan. For the Chinese, Japan offered models for major modern institutions; training for administrators, military officers and modern police; a shortcut to Western knowledge through translations from the Japanese; a ready-made modern vocabulary using Kanji or Chinese characters; and advisers and instructors in many fields. After establishing the broad areas in which China underwent a lasting and peaceful revolution during a "Golden Decade" of beneficial relations with its island neighbour, Reynolds recounts the activities of Chinese students in Japan and those of Japanese teachers and advisers in China. He examines the effect of translations from the Japanese on textbooks and general publishing; and outlines Chinese borrowings from Japanese Western-style institutions in education, the military, police and prisons, modern law, the judiciary, and constitutional government.

Wang Kuo-wei

Author : Joey Bonner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674945944
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Wang Kuo-wei written by Joey Bonner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and professional association with the well-known Chinese scholar Lo Chen-y (1866-1940) and provides a most comprehensive and compelling account of her biographee's posthumously controversial career in the years following the 1911 Revolution. Pursuing her subject across the whole spectrum of his many scholarly interests, Bonner critically examines Wang's essays on German philosophy and philosophical aesthetics; his poetry, literary criticism, and aesthetic theory; and his works on ancient Chinese history, particularly of the Shang dynasty. Insightfully relating his strenuous intellectual search in the fields of philosophy, literature, and history to his very personal quest for truth, beauty, and virtue, Bonner shows in this finely crafted book how Wang's unhappiness in later life as well as his suicide can be understood only within the context of his humanistic concerns in general and his extreme commitment in the postimperial period to the Confucian ethicoreligious tradition in particular. Without compromising the clearheaded critical detachment that characterizes her analysis of the intricacies of his thought, Bonner has produced a portrait of Wang Kuo-wei suffused with warmth and sympathetic respect.

Interactions

Author : Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840364
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Interactions written by Jerry H. Bentley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction. Although they draw heavily on area studies, the contributors seek to put previously separate bodies of scholarship in dialogue with one another by exploring those interactions that have historically linked world regions. Four general themes are especially prominent in this volume, and the essays develop sophisticated positions on each. On the issue of agency and structure, they offer useful guidance toward recognizing the importance of both human agency and historical structures in historical processes. On the theme of states and their roles in cross-cultural interactions, they acknowledge that states do not entirely control their own destinies but nevertheless deeply influence the development of these exchanges, sometimes decisively so. Regarding the theme of the global and the local, they emphasize the reciprocal influence of global dynamics and local circumstances and agree that analyses must take both into account to be successful. Finally, all of the essays allow that the theme of cross-cultural interaction is crucial to understanding the world and its development through time. Contributors:C. A. Bayly; Sven Beckert; Jerry H. Bentley; Renate Bridenthal; Charles Bright; Michael Geyer; Alan L. Karras; Adam McKeown; Colin Palmer; Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.; Caroline Reeves; John O. Voll; Kären Wigen; Anand A. Yang.