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Author : John Thomas Meskill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Pattern of Chinese History: Cycles, Development, Or Stagnation? written by John Thomas Meskill and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thomas Meskill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pattern of Chinese History: Cycles, Development, Or Stagnation? written by John Thomas Meskill and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450417
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Time and History written by Jörn Rüsen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.
Author : Bodo Wiethoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429727607
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Chinese History From Ancient Times to 1912 written by Bodo Wiethoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confining itself to the ancient and traditional state which ended constitutionally in 1912, this book aims to provide an introduction to the history of China. In dealing with Chinese history since the abdication in that year of the last Ch'ing emperor, a completely separate approach seems necessary, in view of that history's complexity, terms of reference, and what is perhaps a quite different structure -though admittedly the origins of the modem state may be sought in the traditional era and past traditions can be regarded as surviving for a time.
Author : Q. Edward Wang
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447321
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Inventing China through History written by Q. Edward Wang and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.
Author : Derk Bodde
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085332X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Essays on Chinese Civilization written by Derk Bodde and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Edmund S. K. Fung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488236
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity written by Edmund S. K. Fung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - those of radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Whereas previous works have analyzed these trends in isolation, Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals in China engaged according to their cultural and political persuasions. The author argues that it is this interrelatedness and interplay between different schools of thought that are central to the understanding of Chinese modernity, for many of the debates that began in the Republican era still resonate in China today. The book charts the development of these ideologies and explores the work and influence of the intellectuals who were associated with them. In its challenge to previous scholarship and the breadth of its approach, the book makes a major contribution to the study of Chinese political philosophy and intellectual history.
Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057397
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century written by Jinghao Zhou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in China studies, he examines China systematically in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. The volume asserts that the remaking of China's public philosophy is they key for the nation to achieve both economic and political prosperity, making the bold argument that this remaking can contribute profoundly not only to China's development, but to international peace and development as well. In Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in China studies, he examines China systematically in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. The volume asserts that the remaking of China's public philosophy—the very principles and precepts it now takes for granted—is they key for the nation to achieve both economic and political prosperity. Zhou aims for a peaceful revolution of China's democratization while he explores a new paradigm in China studies, making the bold argument that this remaking can contribute profoundly not only to China's development, but to international peace and development as well.
Author : Samuel L. Macey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429685130
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Time: A Bibliographic Guide written by Samuel L. Macey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830680
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Secular Cycles written by Peter Turchin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov explore the dynamics and causal connections between such demographic, economic, and political variables in agrarian societies and offer detailed explanations for these long-term oscillations--what the authors call secular cycles. Secular Cycles elaborates and expands upon the demographic-structural theory first advanced by Jack Goldstone, which provides an explanation of long-term oscillations. This book tests that theory's specific and quantitative predictions by tracing the dynamics of population numbers, prices and real wages, elite numbers and incomes, state finances, and sociopolitical instability. Turchin and Nefedov study societies in England, France, and Russia during the medieval and early modern periods, and look back at the Roman Republic and Empire. Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, the authors examine a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigate the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. An indispensable and groundbreaking resource for a wide variety of social scientists, Secular Cycles will interest practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.
Author : Council on American Affairs
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Council on American Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book China--the Turning Point written by Council on American Affairs and published by Washington, D.C. : Council on American Affairs. This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from two seminars on U.S.-China relations held in Washington on July 22 and 29, 1976. Includes bibliographical references.
Author : Charles O. Hucker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804723534
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)
Download or read book China’s Imperial Past written by Charles O. Hucker and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way
Author : Lawrence C. Reardon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803339
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Dragon written by Lawrence C. Reardon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. In this revisionist analysis, the author argues that the dramatic economic reforms initiated by China’s leaders in 1978 were in fact revisions and expansions of policies from the Maoist period.
Author : Denise Gimpel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498506933
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Chen Hengzhe written by Denise Gimpel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes as its starting point the life, activities, and writings of Chen Hengzhe (1890-1976) in order to investigate the effects of transnational experience and in particular the manner in which different, foreign and Chinese, narratives of life were interwoven into activities and attitudes as well as literary and scholarly output at a time “between orthodoxies” (Jerome Grieder) and of eclectic borrowings in search of change in most areas of national life in China. Chen Hengzhe has been celebrated as China’s first female professor, first professor of Western history, and first person to publish a history of the West that was not a translation into Chinese. She is moreover celebrated as one of the first to write fiction and poetry in the vernacular and to have been the first to write children’s literature. In 1914 she was among the first group of women to gain a Boxer Indemnity grant to study in America. The reiteration of these many “firsts” has led to a rather stereotypical portrait of Chen Hengzhe in Chinese sources and, as a result, in most Western references to her. To date we have no critical study of her work or activities in Chinese or any other language. Chen Hengzhe’s life and textual production, however, deserve and reward closer scholarly attention. They are not only pertinent to analysis of developments in early twentieth-century China; they speak to important questions in China today. This study, then, is not a biography of a person; it is an attempt to understand the way in which foreign influences (narratives of being, organizing, thinking, writing) seep into a person’s life and work and meld with the “home” influences (narratives of being, organizing, thinking, writing) to produce a mix that cannot be predicted by any overarching “isms” or theories.
Author : Shaohua Hu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001669
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Explaining Chinese Democratization written by Shaohua Hu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-01-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hu seeks to explain China's failure to establish a democratic system. He demonstrates both continuity and change in China's democratization process. Modern China regards power and wealth as primary goals and treats a strong state as a major means to these ends. Such a preference puts democracy on a back burner. Employing a theoretical framework which consists of five factors—historical legacies, local forces, the world system, socialist values, and economic development—Hu shows that, while all of these factors were at work in all eras, each assumes a special significance in a particular period. Traditional China before the 1911 Revolution attempted to adjust itself to a new, Western-dominated world. In the Republican era, the control of local forces topped the political agenda. Nationalist China sought to survive and develop in the world system, while Maoist China set for itself the task of building a socialist state. And, of course, economic development has been the priority of the Deng era. As Hu shows, these five factors have had determining impacts on the long struggle for democracy in China.
Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400889316
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Historical Dynamics written by Peter Turchin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics--why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract--this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. Peter Turchin develops hypotheses from a wide range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability. He then translates these into a spectrum of mathematical models, investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns. Turchin's highly instructive empirical tests demonstrate that certain models predict empirical patterns with a very high degree of accuracy. For instance, one model accounts for the recurrent waves of state breakdown in medieval and early modern Europe. And historical data confirm that ethno-nationalist solidarity produces an aggressively expansive state under certain conditions (such as in locations where imperial frontiers coincide with religious divides). The strength of Turchin's results suggests that the synthetic approach he advocates can significantly improve our understanding of historical dynamics.
Author : Roger V. Des Forges
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740449
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History written by Roger V. Des Forges and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural centrality resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese people to retain control over social and economic developments. The study focuses on two and a half million people in three prefectures of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the "central plain”--a common synecdoche for China. The author argues that this population may have been more representative of the Chinese people at large than were the residents of more prosperous regions. Many diverse individuals in northeast Henan invoked historical models to deal with the present and shape the future. Though they differed in the lessons they drew, they shared the view that the Han dynasty was particularly relevant to their own time. Han and Ming politics were integral parts of a pattern of Chinese historical development that has lasted to the present.
