Reinventing Modern China
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Reinventing Modern China
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Author : Huaiyin Li
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Reinventing Modern China written by Huaiyin Li and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with History categories.
This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation. Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it. In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century.
The Making Of The Modern Chinese State
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Author : Huaiyin Li
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-13
The Making Of The Modern Chinese State written by Huaiyin Li and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with History categories.
The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China. This book explores the question of why today’s China is unlike any other nation-state in size and structure. It inquires into the reasons behind the striking continuity in China's territorial and ethnic compositions over the past centuries, and explicates the genesis and tenacity of the Chinese state as a highly centralized and unified regime that has been able to survive into the twenty-first century. Its analysis centres on three key variables, namely geopolitical strategy, fiscal constitution, and identity building, and it demonstrates how they worked together to shape the outcome of state transformation in modern China. Enhanced by a selection of informative tables and illustrations, The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 is ideal for undergraduates and graduates studying East Asian history, Chinese history, empires in Asia, and state formation.
Reinventing The Methodology Of Studying Contemporary China
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Author : Peter Kien-hong YU
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-03
Reinventing The Methodology Of Studying Contemporary China written by Peter Kien-hong YU and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with Social Science categories.
This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been dominated by modified and abandoned non-dialectical theories and models. It also challenges selected non-dialectical theories and models which were first generated in the West, such as the game theory and rational (choice) theory. With its emphasis on methodology, the book offers a valuable resource for academics, researchers and practitioners alike with an interest in logically, systematically and coherently unraveling Taiwan’s and mainland China’s contemporary politics and international relations.
Reinventing China
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Author : Zhuqing Li
language : en
Publisher: Bridge21 Publications
Release Date : 2016
Reinventing China written by Zhuqing Li and has been published by Bridge21 Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Business & Economics categories.
This study examines a small group of highly educated Chinese who have exerted outsized influence on China's recent rise. They share one thing in common - they all left China to study in the US and subsequently returned to China to apply what they had learned. Their work has in some ways made China more like the US. But more importantly, in adapting overseas practices to the Chinese context, they have not simply imitated or duplicated that which already exists abroad. Instead, they have invented something entirely novel, something that resides at the very heart of China's contemporary developmental experience. Based on extensive interview data collected by the author, these personal accounts open a window on the day-to-day struggles - and step-by-step achievements - of China's most prominent social entrepreneurs and societal activists.
Reinventing Licentiousness
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Author : Y. Yvon Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Reinventing Licentiousness written by Y. Yvon Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Pornography categories.
"Uses Beijing police archives to present a social and intellectual history of the evolution of markets for and regulation of sexual depictions in today's China, focusing on media markets from c. 1880 to 1940 as a motor for cultural change and linking the Chinese case to global trends"--
Shu
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Author : Wu Hung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Shu written by Wu Hung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art, Chinese categories.
Pioneers Of Modern China
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Author : Khoon Choy Lee
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2005
Pioneers Of Modern China written by Khoon Choy Lee and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rn are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rn are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rn are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rn are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rn are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province.Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically.
Anarchy In The Pure Land
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Author : Justin Ritzinger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-31
Anarchy In The Pure Land written by Justin Ritzinger and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Religion categories.
Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that the reformers supposedly rejected in the name of "modernity." This book shows that, rather than a concession to tradition, the reimagining of ideas and practices associated with Maitreya was an important site for formulating a Buddhist vision of modernity. Justin Ritzinger argues that the cult of Maitreya represents an attempt to articulate a new constellation of values, integrating novel understandings of the good, clustered around modern visions of utopia, with the central Buddhist goal of Buddhahood. In Part One he traces the roots of this constellation to Taixu's youthful career as an anarchist. Part Two examines its articulation in the Maitreya School's theology and its social development from its inception to World War II. Part Three looks at its subsequent decline and contemporary legacy within and beyond orthodox Buddhism. Through these investigations, Anarchy in the Pure Land develops a new framework for alternative understandings of modernity in Buddhism.
Modern China
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Author : Graham Hutchings
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001
Modern China written by Graham Hutchings and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This guide to people, places, ideas, and events crucial to an understanding of a rising world power focuses on society and politics and their impact on China and the world. Hutchings provides over 200 short essays, arranged alphabetically, covering figures and events from Sun Yat-sen to Jiang Zemin and the Boxer Rebellion to Tiananmen Square.
Reinventing The Tripitaka
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Author : Jiang Wu
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-09-20
Reinventing The Tripitaka written by Jiang Wu and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Religion categories.
This volume examines the significance of the Chinese Buddhist canon in modern East Asian Buddhism. Exploring how the Chinese Buddhist canon has evolved and how it is currently utilized, each chapter of this book provides new insights and essential information into the Chinese Buddhist canon during the modern and contemporary periods.