Journal of Modern Chinese History最新文献

{"title":"Intellection as a way of living: rethinking modern Chinese intellectual history","authors":"Yidan Yuan","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1555359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1555359","url":null,"abstract":"Wang Fansen’s book, Intellection as a Way of Living, collects his recent research on modern Chinese history. The methodological theme of this book is expanding the bandwidth of intellectual history...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"164 1","pages":"303 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77550573","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":"Between Locality and Nation: Literati in Wenzhou Prefecture in the Late Qing and the Local Transformation of Knowledge","authors":"Junyi Qu","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1542816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1542816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"187 1","pages":"299 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86230696","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 early slide projector and slide shows in China from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century","authors":"Qingxiang Sun","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1559533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1559533","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the mid-seventeenth century, Europeans invented the early slide projector, which was later introduced to China both by Jesuit missionaries and through foreign trade. By the nineteenth century, this “Western instrument” had become an important aid in Protestant missionaries’ “scientific preaching,” and its use had spread throughout China; slides and the slide show became a major medium for disseminating modern knowledge. Against the background of the global circulation of knowledge in the period from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, complex interactions occurred between local resources in China and this medium in terms of denotation, production, use, and diffusion. Modern educational technologies and patterns involving the projector and slides became popular at church speeches, at public lectures in treaty ports, and in modern school education in China. Changes also occurred in how Chinese intellectuals gathered and in the role they played: they shifted from forming their own associations to holding open slide presentations. This had a profound influence on their transition from literati to intellectuals.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"46 1","pages":"203 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80959816","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 grammar of the telegraph in the Late Qing: the design and application of Chinese telegraphic codebooks","authors":"Wenyang Zhang","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1540191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1540191","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The invention of the telegraph was an important chapter in the nineteenth-century revolution in communication. The key to disseminating information at the speed of photoelectricity was to devise a coding system for converting text into electric signals. Based on the widely used Morse code, symbols (letters of the alphabet or numbers) were used to represent phrases and sentences, and various codebooks were compiled for the purpose of transmitting messages confidentially and economically. When international telegraph lines reached China in 1871, the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Denmark devised the first Chinese codebook for sending and receiving telegraphic messages in Chinese. Officials and businessmen in the late Qing period also made many attempts to do this. The Zongli Yamen, the foreign affairs ministry in imperial China, compiled and issued a codebook entitled New Regulations for Telecommunications (Dianxin xinfa), establishing a new mechanism for governmental exchanges of information. Those who did not possess a codebook had to rely on those who did. At the same time, some departments and government-controlled corporations (guandu shangban) compiled codebooks as well, which caused obstructions in intrabureaucratic communication.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"68 1","pages":"227 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76293023","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":"Modern Chinese magistracies in a period of great change: individuals and groups, 1906–1928","authors":"Jianwei Wang","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1557922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1557922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"25 1","pages":"300 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76723378","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":"From motion pictures to still photographs: a case study of A Page in the History of the Republic","authors":"Hu Jianmin","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1550302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1550302","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTChina’s pioneering filmmaker Li Minwei began making the documentary film A Page in the History of the Chinese Republic (Jianguo shi zhi yi ye), aka The Glorious Cause (Xun ye qianqiu), shor...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"40 1","pages":"246-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82821670","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":"Premodern Beijing and Western civilization","authors":"J. Du","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1542815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1542815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"45 1","pages":"296 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90051614","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":"Digital data and historical studies: an introduction to the data platform of the Anti-Japanese War and modern Sino-Japanese relations","authors":"Tao Jiang","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1542814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1542814","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Built by the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Data Platform of the Anti-Japanese War and Modern Sino-Japanese Relations is an integrative platform that upholds the ideals of public interest and sharing. Since its online trial use in the second half of 2017, this data platform has added about four hundred late Qing and Republican era newspapers, more than eight hundred periodicals from those periods, and more than eight thousand books. It also contains over eight million pages of scanned and catalogued images. Compared with other large databases related to modern Chinese history, this data platform has clear advantages: it has more data and is easier to use. It is an attempt to build a research-oriented integrated database in the age of big data.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"54 1","pages":"283 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84769107","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":"A Collection of Historical Documents on Taxation in the Republican Period","authors":"Zhixiong Jin","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1542817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1542817","url":null,"abstract":"phenomenon” that fostered a culture of consumption in Shanghai in the modern period. Previous studies gave intellectuals the credit for enlightening the common people, but dismissed businessmen as single-minded profit seekers. They neglected the role businessmen played in forming modern thought. This book shows that the department store, a business enterprise, also disseminated new cultural concepts and knowledge for everyday use. Popular phrases and abstract terms, such as “nuclear families,” “saving the nation,” “equality,” “democracy,” and “independence,” came to life through interpretations of consumer culture, making them more easily understood by consumers and other people. According to Kenneth Pomeranz, the author’s conclusions about the “commercialization of new cultural concepts” are the “boldest views in this book.”(1)","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"26 1","pages":"308 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87145467","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":"Giving voice to the voiceless people in local society: an interview with Wang Di, June 6, 2018","authors":"Wennan Liu, Di Wang","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2018.1531627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2018.1531627","url":null,"abstract":"Wang Di was born in 1956 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The city, where Wang spent much of his youth, is located in the fertile plain of southwest China and is well known for its rich history and unique local culture. During the Cultural Revolution, Wang was sent to a rural village as a part of the government program to reeducate high school graduates, and then he became a factory worker. That experience may help explain his strong emotional attachment to the land and people in this region. In 1978, he was admitted to Sichuan University to study history. Seven years later, he graduated with a master’s degree in history and joined the faculty of the university. He was promoted to associate professor in 1987 for his extraordinary performance in teaching and scholarly achievements. Wang’s early research examines the social history of the upper Yangtze River region with the Sichuan basin as its focus. Drawing on Skinner’s macroregion theory, Wang treated the entire upper Yangtze River region as an organic unit with its own distinctive economic, social, and cultural identity. He was also influenced by the French Annales School, especially Fernand Braudel, who is known for his three levels of time: the environment, society, and events. Wang traced the historical transition of the upper Yangtze River region from a relatively isolated traditional society to a modern community. Supported by rich empirical sources, he painted a vivid picture of the region’s natural environment, demographic diversity, agricultural patterns, handicraft industry, commercial activities, political structure, social organization, and educational conditions. In short, his work provides readers with encyclopedic information about this region during the early modern period. Although he started work on his study in 1980, it was not until 1993 that his monograph was published under the title Striding Out of a Closed World: The Social Transformation of the Upper Yangtze Region, 1644–1911 (Kuachu fengbi de shijie: Changjiang shangyou quyu shehui yanjiu, 1644–1911). By the time Wang’s first book was published in China, he had already started his new academic journey in the United States. In 1991, he was awarded a young scholar grant by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China (CSCPRC) that allowed him to spend a year at the University of Michigan. During his stay in the US, he was fascinated by the cutting-edge scholarly work of European and American academics and decided to extend his stay so that he could learn more.","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"3 1","pages":"263 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75219092","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}