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The Ping-Liu-Li Uprising of 1906 Up Close: Its Local Context and Its National Significance Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2023-09-02 He Xi
Abstract: The Ping-Liu-Li (Pingxiang, Liuyang, and Liling) uprising of 1906 is often said to have been led by revolutionaries, to have been supported by secret societies, and to have drawn support from two provinces (Hunan and Jiangxi) and three counties. This article argues that the events of the uprising have to be read in the light of disunified local gangs who had turf to protect, their interest
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Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China by Sascha Klotzbücher (review) Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Felix Wemheuer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China by Sascha Klotzbücher Felix Wemheuer Sascha Klotzbücher. Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China. Psyche und Gesellschaft Series
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Making the "Good Government" with the "Good People": Collaboration Between General Wu Peifu and Endeavor Intellectuals, 1920–1922 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Abstract: This article examines the collaborative project between Wu Peifu and a group of prominent intellectuals led by Hu Shi at Peking University to create a "Good Government" (Haozhengfu) between 1920 and 1922. Challenging the conventional historiography that has either exaggerated the antithesis between warlords and intellectuals or studied them as two separate groups with little social, political
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era by Jie Li Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Di Luo
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Questioning the Teleology of the Central State in Republican China Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Xavier Paulès,David Serfass
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Migration and State Making: A Beiyang Settlement Scheme Along the Amur in 1921 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Pierre Fuller
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Health and State Making: The Expansion of State Health Services During the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937–1945) Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
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Warlords at Work: Four Crucial Realms and Four Dynamics of State Building in Republican China, 1916–1937 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Xavier Paulès
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A Community Crop: Cotton, Science, and Extension in Interwar Shandong, 1918–1937 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Spencer Stewart
Abstract: This article explores the impact of agricultural science and extension on the cotton industry in interwar Shandong Province. It shows that cotton experts played an important role in breeding upland or “American” cotton and in organizing communities to maintain the quality of the improved varieties. In the 1910s and early 1920s, cotton experts focused primarily on acclimatizing and improving
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Creating Entertaining Lawsuits: Defamation and Tabloid Publicity in 1920s Shanghai Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Jing Zhang
Abstract: This article examines the coverage of defamation disputes and lawsuits in the Holmes tabloid in the late 1920s. In 1928, the famous poet Xu Zhimo took the tabloid to court for alleging that his wife, Lu Xiaoman, was having an affair. The tabloid strategically used the trial to validate and market newsworthy events. I argue that the tabloid publicity surrounding the defamation lawsuit embedded
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Wartime Education at the Crossroads of Empires: The Relocation of Schools to Macao During the Second World War, 1937–1945 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Helena F. S. Lopes
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The War of Textbooks: Educating Children during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jenny Huangfu Day
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The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang: Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction by John Christopher Hamm Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Lehyla G. Heward
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Reappraising Maoism from the Bottom Up Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Steven Pieragastini
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The "Acid Test" of the Revolution: Demobilization and the Collapse of Chiang Kai-Shek's Military Coalition in 1929 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Peter Worthing
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A Community Crop: Cotton, Science, and Extension in Interwar Shandong, 1918–1937 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Spencer Stewart
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Revolutionary Echoes: Radios and Loudspeakers in the Mao Era Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jie Li
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Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal by Patrick Fuliang Shan Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Clemens Büttner
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Beyond “Good Wives and Wise Mothers”: Feminism as Anticolonialism in Manchukuo Schools Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Wenwen Wang
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Performing Loyalty: Classification of College Students in the Anti-Rightist Campaign Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Yidi Wu
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Toilets and the Tug-of-War over Night Soil: The Reconstruction of Toilets in Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, 1942–1943 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Cheng Yi Meng
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Educators and Power Brokers: Political Mobilization and Violence in Wannian County, Jiangxi Province, 1926–1935 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Federica Ferlanti
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The Two Rivers of Sichuan: Learning Literary Lessons in Chengdu, 1957 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Dayton Lekner
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Rethinking Women Writers and the Gendered Spaces of Print Media Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Yuxin Ma
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Polarities and the May Fourth Polemical Culture: Provenance of the "Conservative" Category Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ya-Pei Kuo
Abstract:This essay argues that the conservative/radical polarity by which we classify May Fourth intellectuals originated in the New Youth group's polemical stratagem of depicting the intellectual landscape in terms of a "New Culturalists vs. the rest" divide. In this stratagem, those who later became "the conservatives" were lumped together for dissenting from the New Culture movement and largely
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Contours and Templates: Assessing the Reassessments of May Fourth Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Julia C. Strauss
Abstract:Although May Fourth has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention for decades, its contours and periodization remain blurred and contested. This article suggests that the significance of May Fourth resides in the ways in which it established a fundamentally new template for student led social movements that fused novel notions of progress with older ones of remonstrance, thus
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A New Database of Resources Related to the War of Resistance Against Japan, Modern Sino-Japanese Relations, and Other Republican-Period Topics Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sophia Lee
Abstract:Free and easy access to an unusually rich variety of sources (primarily books, newspapers, and periodicals) is the hallmark of the Database of Sources Concerning the War of Resistance against Japan and Modern Sino-Japanese Relations (Kang Ri zhanzheng yu jindai Zhong Ri guanxi wenxian shuju pingtai), launched in 2017. Continuously expanding with new uploads, this database contains both familiar
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No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945 by Felix Boecking Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jeremy Tai
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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960 by Bridie Andrews Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Xiaoping Fang
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Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938–1944: A City at War by Pingchao Zhu Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sophia Lee
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The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China by Kate Merkel-Hess Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sakura Christmas
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The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War by Meredith Oyen Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Barry McCarron
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Introduction: Sounds, Scripts, and Linking Language to Power Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2016-08-09 Jing Tsu
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Energy and Enterprise in Liu Hongsheng's Cement and Coal-Briquette Businesses, 1920–1937 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2016-04-22 Micah Muscolino
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Electrifying Illustrated News: Zheng Zhengqiu and the Transformation of Graphic Arts into Dramatic Cinema, 1910–1935 Twentieth-Century China Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Li-Lin Tseng