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{"title":"Yuan Shikai and the Restoration of Tianjin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Taoyu Yang","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268847","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the most controversial historical figures in modern Chinese history, Yuan Shikai has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades. While Yuan’s diplomatic activity during his presidency of the early Republican era has been well studied, his earlier diplomatic activity during the late Qing period has not received much scholarly discussions in the English-language historiography. This article examines how Yuan negotiated with various imperialist powers over the restoration of Tianjin, as well as over the creation of foreign concessions in the city, at the turn of the twentieth century. It reveals Yuan’s distinctive diplomatic strategies while highlighting his way of positioning himself at the intersection of multiple nodes of power. It argues that Yuan Shikai’s diplomatic maneuvering played an indispensable role in the transformation of Tianjin from a city governed by a colonial administration to a Chinese city with multiple foreign concessions.","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"194 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching History in America: From Students to Professors","authors":"Weiyin Mai","doi":"10.1080/1547402x.2023.2269639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402x.2023.2269639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"73 1","pages":"252 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconsidering China’s Decision to Enter the Korean War— Seventieth Year after the Korean Armistice","authors":"Zhihua Shen","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268845","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese decision-making process and the role of the Chinese leaders (mainly Mao Zedong) during the Korean War remain controversial topics in international academic circles. This article argues that China's main goal in 1950-1951 was to liberate Taiwan, and once the Soviet Union and North Korea had agreed to launch a military attack on South Korea, Mao was forced to support the war. After the United States entered the war in late June 1950, Mao advocated sending Chinese troops to aid North Korea. Although the decision-making process was tortuous and the motives changed along the way, the fundamental purpose of the Chinese was to gain Stalin's trust and use the deterrence of the Sino-Soviet alliance and Soviet assistance to stabilize the nascent revolutionary regime and safeguard China's national security. The factor that influenced China's decision-making the most was the Sino-Soviet relationship.","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"160 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China","authors":"Julia Moser","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"244 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Central Asia and the Great Power Politics: An Analysis of China’s National Interest in the Region and U.S. Approach to China","authors":"Muhammadi, Rahat Iqbal, Hashim Ali","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268883","url":null,"abstract":"Due to its geographical location and strategic significance, the Central Asian region welcomed all great powers to play their substantial role in bringing peace, prosperity, and state-building. Thus, the region is unique for all powers, where the concept of balance of power re-emerged between China and the US. In this context, the study explores how the Central Asian region has become a great source of competition between the major powers. Furthermore, this study analyzed the US response to China’s Central Asia strategy and national interest in the post-9/11 era. The study investigates the ultimate aim of China’s Central Asia strategy, as its new regionalism intertwined with its peaceful rise and mutual interests (political, economic, diplomatic, and trade). US has also reinforced its presence to counter China’s growing leverage in the region. This study uses an exploratory case study for qualitative data that relies on secondary sources.","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"228 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Ming Confucian’s World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden","authors":"Lu Rong","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268890","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Halperin’s translation from Lu Rong’s Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden is a treasure trove of both subjective and objective gems. It highlights the belief system of Lu Rong himself and provides invaluable information about the mid-Ming period. In fact, Halperin asserts that Lu Rong’s mid-Ming notebook should be accepted as representative of late imperial China as a whole. Acknowledging in his introduction the atmosphere of “heady transgression” that characterized the more attention-grabbing latter part of the Ming period, he nonetheless maintains that it was aberrational, posing only a temporary challenge to the “political and social structures, economic practices, and cultural attitudes that were present before the late Ming and persisted centuries later” (ix). Lu’s (and Halperin’s) book, therefore, “offers a remarkable panorama of late imperial Chinese society” (x). Lu Rong (1436–1494) was a scholar-official of middling significance. His “representative yet distinctive Confucian view of the world” (x) is indeed well in evidence in his Miscellaneous Records. His belief in the transformative power of sagely culture is akin to a belief in magic, as in “Commoners who have been touched by classical teachings compete to do the right thing” (16); and he lauds one grand coordinator as being so lenient, fair, and unassuming that “rain and sunshine arrived in a timely fashion, and good annual harvests came repeatedly” (39). Unsurprisingly, Lu rails against ostentatious displays of wealth that confuse the social order, bemoaning how “Today, there are irresponsible young men from rich and noble households who use ramie, silk, damask, and satin for their pants. Such extravagance is most egregious” (1). His ideal is the simple society of the Three Dynasties, when “The men farmed, and the women worked with silk and hemp” (2). As for women, Lu wants them kept under wraps. One danger posed by the popularity of opera comes in the form of the male actor who plays female characters—a heady transgression in itself—because “the women forget themselves and chat and joke with them. There are cases where the women are secretly violated by them. For literati who wish to run a proper household, it is appropriate that they strictly","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"242 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediating Dual Roles in Overseas Journey: Public and Private Writings by Bin Chun (1804–1871)","authors":"Yunrui Lin","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268882","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Bin Chun 斌椿 (1804–1871), the first late Qing Chinese scholar-official to Europe, kept a critical distance from the West by delivering different messages between his prose (written for the late Qing court) and poetry (shared with friends). It explores his representations of “self-styled heroism,” Qing Occidentalism, and gender hierarchy in writing. In the prose written for a more public purpose, Bin Chun credited his popularity to the respected nation behind him, portrayed Westerners as barbarians, and reserved his praise for upper-class women in the West. In contrast, his poems elaborate on his charisma, tone down the bizarre scenes in the West, and include exuberant descriptions of ladies. As the official has been considered a conservative who failed to recognize the strength of the West, this research sheds light on his efforts at cultural mediation that reveal further complexity in his stance.","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"215 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking Through China","authors":"Emma Stewart","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"241 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Lens of the Silenced: Untold war Mobilization in Sha Fei’s Unpublished Photographs","authors":"James Z. Gao","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2191358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2191358","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addressed Sha Fei’s unpublished photographs from China during World War II in three dimensions: image, symbol, and index. The intrinsic meanings of these images depend upon the historical context and historical relations between the images and historical scenes they represented. Here lies significance of the index function of Sha Fei’s photographs, which is to direct historians’ attention, inspire intensive research for other archival sources or textual evidence and drive researchers to discuss broader questions about Communist war mobilization and political growth.","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"139 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949","authors":"Qiang Zhai","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2023.2268897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311355,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Historical Review","volume":"83 1","pages":"246 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}