{"title":"A world of uncertainties: litigation and order in a flood irrigation society: three villages in southern Shanxi since late imperial times","authors":"ZHANG Junfeng","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2023.2317616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2023.2317616","url":null,"abstract":"Flood diversion irrigation is a unique way of water resource development and utilization in the semi-arid area of the South Shanxi Loess Plateau, a widespread technique since Wang Anshi’s (1021–108...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water politics: disputes about the “Yellow River-Huai River diversion proposal” in the 1930s","authors":"LI Fagen","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2023.2317100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2023.2317100","url":null,"abstract":"Between the Southern Song and the Republican era in China, the Yellow River recurrently changed its course and inundated the Huai River, often resulting in disastrous flooding and millions of refug...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"2010 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sea changes of sandbanks and reclamation of shallows in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the modern period","authors":"LIU Shigu","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2024.2362020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2024.2362020","url":null,"abstract":"The Yangtze River waterway is an open and dynamic natural system, where we see natural changes such as soil and water loss, river flooding, and rise and collapse of sandbanks and activities people ...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The transformation and ecological impacts of drainage systems in modern Tianjin","authors":"CAO Mu","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2023.2317062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2023.2317062","url":null,"abstract":"Drainage systems are important facilities for the maintenance of a city’s normal operation. Whilst they directly affect the internal urban environment, they are also a key link between a city and t...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"244 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and ecological management of flood lands in Western Hebei from the perspective of environmental history (1937-1949)","authors":"CHENG Sen","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2023.2317072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2023.2317072","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies of environmental history in North China have focused too much on ecological degradation and neglected human dynamism in response to environmental change. Since the fifth year of th...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The return of the “Ashi Point” from its journey East and its modern theoretical reconstruction","authors":"JIANG Shan","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2022.2147720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2022.2147720","url":null,"abstract":"In the current knowledge system of acupuncture and moxibustion, the Ashi Point belongs to one of the three categories of acupoints. However, the source of this knowledge is from an inconspicuous ru...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To be canonic or scientific: a study of knowledge innovation of acupuncture and moxibustion in the Republican period of China","authors":"CHEN Siyan","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2022.2150017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2022.2150017","url":null,"abstract":"Reconstructing the body of acupuncture and moxibustion knowledge was seen as an important measure to prove the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine in the Republican period of China. Many ...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of the social relief system in late Qing and its impacts","authors":"Hu-min Zhu","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2022.2101796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2022.2101796","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Chinese social relief system, first established in the eighteenth century, had already faced enormous pressure during the late Qing period. Impacted by the West and galvanized by China’s domestic social transformation, however, the Chinese social relief system embarked on some new development unseen before, including diversified famine relief mechanisms, socialization of famine relief granaries, and the development of inclusive philanthropy. The above development is a testament to the fact that the social relief system of late Qing gradually moved away from the old, state-dominated model and became an integral part of the social transformation in modern China.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"278 1","pages":"123 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77718585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impacts of the end of civil service examinations in modern Chinese history","authors":"Fagen Li","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2022.2101790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2022.2101790","url":null,"abstract":"According to Douglass C. North’s theory of institutional change, institutions are “the rules of the game in a society” or “the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction,” and institutional change “shapes the way society evolve through time and hence is the key to understanding historical change.” Similarly, Qian Mu points out that the key to promote social transformation and development relies not just on destroying old traditions but establishing new institutions. Moreover, the longer the tradition, the firmer it stands, so there also needs to be proper boundaries for institutional changes. In imperial China, the civil service examination (keju) system existed for more than 1,300 years and became an essential part of the overall structure of Chinese politics, society, and culture. It significantly shaped the history of China. No wonder some scholars view the abolition of keju as the most revolutionary change in modern China or even the entire Chinese history. In September 1905, the Qing court announced to cease all levels of civil service examinations, which in fact signaled the end of the keju system. This event did not ignite many discussions at that time. However, after more than one hundred years, its impact has become a topic of heated debate even beyond the academia. This article offers a review of the abundant recent scholarship on this issue. In the past, assuming the value of reform and revolution, the literature almost praised the abolition of keju without any criticism for a long time based on a progressivist view that the keju system was responsible for the stagnation and weakness of late imperial China. In recent thirty years, more scholars have started to reflect on the negative impacts of abolishing the examinations on the process of modern Chinese history.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"11 1","pages":"143 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81233686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The reform of the legal system in the late Qing","authors":"Zaiquan Li","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2022.2101792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2022.2101792","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Facing the invasion of foreign powers and the existence of consular jurisdiction, the Qing government started the legal system reform in the New Policy Reform in the 1900s. Headed by Shen Jiaben, the legal reformers followed the practice of European Continental Law and the Japanese legal system. They revised the traditional Chinese laws to achieve a legal system of lighter punishment, less cruelty and more equality. They also drafted new laws that did not exist before, such as criminal law, civil law, commercial law and procedural law. This reform broke the traditional Chinese system of legal codes in which all kinds of laws were included. The traditional Chinese legal system thus was quickly replaced by a modern legal system that composed of constitution, civil law, criminal law, civil procedure law, criminal procedure law, and administrative law. The legal reform in the late Qing, though profound and influential, reflected the characteristics of a transitional system in which the old and new coexisted and the Chinese and Western legal systems were combined.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"32 1","pages":"50 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84310183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}