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What is the Global? Rise and Demis of the Metanarrative on Global Change The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Xin Zhang
In the past, historians tended to perceive the global as a set of encompassing processes that made the world smaller and generated an upward trajectory of economic development in the industrialized countries, as we saw in the nineteenth and the better part of the twentieth centuries. At the core of the processes were the technological innovations, the rise of humanism, and the emergence of democratic
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《胡適的頓挫——自由與威權衝撞下的政治抉擇》 (Hu Shi's Frustration: The Political Choice Between Freedom and Authority) The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Guo Wu
(2022). 《胡適的頓挫——自由與威權衝撞下的政治抉擇》 (Hu Shi's Frustration: The Political Choice Between Freedom and Authority) The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 62-64.
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The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Dongyu Yang
Xiaolin Duan’s book, The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty, based on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Washington in 2014, essentially concerns how literati si...
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Bannerman Tales (Zidishu): Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Loretta E. Kim
This literary and cultural study of zidishu, translated for simplicity as “bannermen tales,” describes and analyzes the experiences of the composers, performers, and audience for these tales during...
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Lu Xun, Jottings under Lamplight The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Edward S. Krebs
This is a fine anthology of Lu Xun’s work, different from other collections in including mostly essays and other shorter pieces, none of them fiction.All writers and editors hope that readers will ...
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Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs about Courtesans The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Lifang He,Jun Fang
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Body, Society, and Nation: The Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Xincheng Shen
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Study on Li Shicen (李石岑) The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Li Fuqing
Li Shicen is a representative intellectual during the May 4th Movement time. With a Strong Time Mission, he went to study and travel abroad to several countries. His life is summarized into three s...
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Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Yue Du
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Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Wesley Chaney
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Geo-narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Richard John Lynn
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Coarse Tea and Insipid Rice: The Politics of Food in the Northern Song Period The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Isaac Yue
This article investigates the politics of eating during the Northern Song period. In particular, it aims to consider the historical-political circumstances that gave rise to two polarizing schools of gastronomic practices: the excessive gourmands who viewed food as an expression of wealth and social status and the frugal literati who condemned this gustatory indulgence as unvirtuous and morally improper
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Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Thomas Michael
bidden in state shrines. Chapter 6 details a surge in the publication of gazetteers and the local literature, works that celebrated Suzhou’s history and customs. Chapter 7 examines literati attempts to legitimize the rule of Zhang Shicheng, a contender to power in the late Yuan who established his capital in Suzhou. Together, these chapters show that nineteenth century elites took advantage of a less
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Deciphering Dreams: How Glyphomancy Worked in Late Ming Dream Encyclopedic Divination The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Brigid E. Vance
Both the 1562 dream encyclopedia Mengzhan yizhi 夢占逸旨 (Guidelines for Dream Divination) and the 1636 dream encyclopedia Menglin xuanjie 夢林玄解 (An Explication of the Profundities in the Forest of Dreams) consisted of individual examples of accurately divined dream interpretations whose cumulative weight proved that the divination techniques worked consistently and should be used. The content of the dream
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A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 Jonathan Porter
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The Rise of Cantonese Opera The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 Gina Anne Tam
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What Need is There to Go Home? Travel as a Leisure Activity in the Travel Records (Youji 游記) of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101) The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 James M. Hargett
The underlying premise of this essay is that travel, as a leisure or recreational activity, appears first as a common literary theme during the Song dynasty (960–1279), and that the informal prose ji 記 writings of Su Shi 蘇軾 (or Su Dongpo 蘇東坡; 1037–1101) are representative of this new trend. While some post-Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) personalities, such as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Zhulin
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A Month of Delta Summer: The Work of Leisure in The Diary of Li Rihua The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 Timothy Brook
Leisure is not doing nothing: it involves complex signifying practices that communicate social status and have to be performed to be legible to others. The practice of leisure fills the pages of the eight-year diary of Li Rihua (1565–1635), an artist and art collector of the late Ming who devoted an extended mourning sabbatical to building a major art collection and socializing with like-minded colleagues
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Of Revelers and Witty Conversationalists: Song (960–1279) Biji Writing and the Rise of a New Literati Ideal The Chinese Historical Review (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 Cong Ellen Zhang
Using Wang Bizhi's (1031–1097?) Record of Enjoyable Conversations at Sheng River (Shengshui yantan lu) as a case study, this essay examines the significant place leisurely gathering and bantering occupied in the lives of Song educated men. It argues that Wang's work, and that of his peers, points to a new vision of the scholar-official ideal. Time spent on chatting, gossiping, and in the company of