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Author : Jennifer Rudolph
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242379
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China written by Jennifer Rudolph and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer M. Rudolph
Publisher : Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China written by Jennifer M. Rudolph and published by Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reformexplores the nature and functioning of reform during the nineteenth century of China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911). By analyzing the bureaucratic modes of management that developed around the creation and evolution of the Zongli Yamen or Foreign Office (1861-1901), the book demonstrates the vitality of not only the Chinese State, but also the institutional traditions of its Manchu rulers. Drawing on precedent and the flexibility of the administrative system in their efforts to manage the conduct of foreign affairs, high Qing ministers transformed opportunities for institutional dynamism into the reality of a functioning central Zongli Yamen with a foreign affairs field administration supporting it in the provinces. In the process, they altered the governmental hierarchy and changed the definition of institutional power in the multi-faceted area of foreign affairs and, more generally, for the Qing bureaucracy. As the most significant example of institutional development in China's critical period of the nineteenth century, the Zongli Yamen's experience serves as valuable background for understanding reform efforts in late imperial China and beyond.
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Author : Sukhee Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Negotiated Power written by Sukhee Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the seeds of localism planted during Southern Song grow under the alien regime? In answering these questions, I show the crucial importance of the Yuan period in shaping local elite society and handing it over to the late imperial period.
Author : Tu-ki Min
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)
Download or read book National Polity and Local Power written by Tu-ki Min and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Adele Carrai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674270339
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The China Questions 2 written by Maria Adele Carrai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US–China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world’s most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.
Author : Catherine Pagani
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112081
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" written by Catherine Pagani and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134077033
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Gentility in China written by Daria Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late imperial times until the modern day. Gentility denotes the way of the gentleman and gentlewoman. The concept of gentility transcends the categories of gender and class and provides important new insights into the ways Chinese men and women lived their lives, perceived their world and constructed their cultural environment. In contrast to analyses of the elite, perceptions of gentility relate to ideals, ambitions, desires, social capital, cultural sophistication, literary refinement, aesthetic appreciation, moral behaviour, femininity and gentlemanly elegance, rather than to actual status or power. Twelve international leading scholars present multi-disciplinary approaches to explore the images, artefacts and transmission of gentility across the centuries in historical and literary situations, popular and high culture, private and official documents, poetry clubs, garden culture and aesthetic guidebooks. This volume changes the ways we look at Chinese cultural history, literature, women and gender issues and offers new perspectives on Chinese sources.
Author : American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China written by American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Szonyi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197245
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Art of Being Governed written by Michael Szonyi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018--an innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state.tate.
Author : Melissa Ann Macauley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0804731357
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Social Power and Legal Culture written by Melissa Ann Macauley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents. Litigation masters emerge as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in 18th- and 19th-century China.
Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824828968
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China written by Martin W. Huang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they constructed? Martin Huang attempts to answer these questions in this valuable work on manhood in late imperial China. He focuses on the ambivalent and often paradoxical role played by women and the feminine in the intricate negotiating process of male gender identity in late imperial cultural discourses. Two common strategies for constructing and negotiating masculinity were adopted in many of the works examined here. The first, what Huang calls the strategy of analogy, constructs masculinity in close association with the feminine; the second, the strategy of differentiation, defines it in sharp contrast to the feminine. In both cases women bear the burden as the defining "other." In this study, "feminine" is a rather broad concept denoting a wide range of gender phenomena associated with women, from the politically and socially destabilizing to the exemplary wives and daughters celebrated in Confucian chastity discourse.
Author : Sukhee Lee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175461
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Negotiated Power written by Sukhee Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internal dynamics driving the relationship between the state and local society during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties has both captivated and baffled scholars. In this book, Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites in the middle period of Chinese imperial history. Directly challenging the assumption of a zero-sum competition between the power of the state and that of local elites, Negotiated Power shows in vivid detail how state power and local elite interests were mutually constitutive and reinforcing. It was precisely the connectedness of social elites to the state, as well as the presence of the state in local life, that was essential to the rise of a self-conscious local elite society during this period. In probing the historical trajectory of Mingzhou prefecture (today’s Ningbo), Lee makes extensive use of local gazetteers from the Southern Song and the Yuan dynasties, and the abundant literary collections that still survive from this area, including some 280 epitaphs written for Mingzhou people of the time.
Author : Maria Adele Carrai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674287517
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The China Questions 2 written by Maria Adele Carrai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today’s US-China relationship. For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US-China relationship? For the global economy and international security? Seeking to clarify central issues, provide historical perspective, and demystify stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi and an exceptional group of China experts offer essential insights into the many dimensions of the world’s most important bilateral relationship. Ranging across questions of security, economics, military development, climate change, public health, science and technology, education, and the worrying flashpoints of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, these concise essays provide an authoritative look at key sites of friction and potential collaboration, with an eye on where the US-China relationship may go in the future. Readers hear from leading thinkers such as James Millward on Xinjiang, Elizabeth Economy on diplomacy, Shelley Rigger on Taiwan, and Winnie Yip and William Hsiao on public health. The voices included in The China Questions 2 recognize that the US-China relationship has changed, and that the policy of engagement needs to change too. But they argue that zero-sum thinking is not the answer. Much that is good for one society is good for both—we are facing not another Cold War but rather a complex and contextually rooted mixture of conflict, competition, and cooperation that needs to be understood on its own terms.
Author : Jonathan Porter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144222293X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Imperial China, 1350–1900 written by Jonathan Porter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing dynasties as a coherent era characterized by the fruition of diverse developments from earliest times, Jonathan Porter traces the growth of imperial autocracy, the role of the educated Confucian elite as custodians of cultural authority, the significance of ritual as the grounding of political and social order, the tension between monarchy and bureaucracy in political discourse, the evolution of Chinese cultural identity, and the perception of the “barbarian” and other views of the world beyond China. As the climax of traditional Chinese history and the harbinger of modern China in the twentieth century, Porter argues that imperial China must be explored for its own sake as well as for the essential foundation it provides in understanding contemporary China, and indeed world history writ large.
Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317538226
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History written by Victor Cunrui Xiong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resurgence of modern China has generated much interest, not only in the country’s present day activities, but also in its long history. As the only uninterrupted ancient civilization still alive today, the study of China’s past promises to offer invaluable insights into understanding contemporary China. Providing coverage of the entire Imperial Era (221 BCE–1912 CE), this handbook takes a chronological approach. It includes comprehensive analysis of all major periods, from the powerful Han empire which rivalled Rome, and the crucial transformative period of the Five Dynasties, to the prosperous Ming era and the later dominance of the non-Han peoples. With contributions from a team of international authors, key themes include: Political events and leadership Religion and philosophy Cultural and literary achievements Legal, economic, and military institutions This book transcends the traditional boundaries of historiography, giving special attention to the role of archaeology. As such, the Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History is an indispensable reference work for students and scholars of Chinese, Asian, and World History.
Author : Steffen Rimner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674916212
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Opium’s Long Shadow written by Steffen Rimner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium’s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers—significantly, feminists and journalists—who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, “white slavery,” and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community. Rimner relates how an aggressive embrace of anti-drug politics earned China and other Asian states new influence on the world stage. The link between drug control and international legitimacy has endured. Amid fierce contemporary debate over the wisdom of narcotics policies, the 100-year-old moral consensus Rimner describes remains a backbone of the international order.
