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The return of the “Ashi Point” from its journey East and its modern theoretical reconstruction “阿石点”的东行回归及其现代理论重构
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2147720
JIANG Shan
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...
在现行的针灸知识体系中,阿石穴属于三大腧穴之一。然而,这些知识的来源来自一个不起眼的地方……
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To be canonic or scientific: a study of knowledge innovation of acupuncture and moxibustion in the Republican period of China 是规范还是科学:民国时期针灸知识创新研究
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2150017
CHEN Siyan
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 ...
重建针灸知识体系是民国时期证明中医有效性的一项重要措施。许多……
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Evolution of the social relief system in late Qing and its impacts 晚清社会救济制度的演变及其影响
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101796
Hu-min Zhu
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.
十八世纪初建立的中国社会救济制度在清末已经面临巨大的压力。然而,在西方的冲击和中国国内社会转型的推动下,中国的社会救济体系开始了一些前所未有的新发展,包括饥荒救济机制的多元化、饥荒救济粮仓的社会化、包容性慈善事业的发展。以上的发展证明了晚清社会救济制度逐渐摆脱了旧的国家主导模式,成为近代中国社会转型的一个组成部分。
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The impacts of the end of civil service examinations in modern Chinese history 科举制度的终结对中国近代史的影响
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101790
Fagen Li
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.
根据道格拉斯·c·诺斯(Douglass C. North)的制度变迁理论,制度是“社会中的游戏规则”或“人类设计的制约因素,这些制约因素塑造了人类的互动”,制度变迁“塑造了社会随着时间的推移而演变的方式,因此是理解历史变迁的关键”。钱穆同样指出,推动社会转型和发展的关键不在于破除旧传统,而在于建立新的制度。此外,传统的时间越长,它就越牢固,因此也需要为制度变革设定适当的边界。在帝制中国,科举制度存在了1300多年,成为中国政治、社会和文化整体结构的重要组成部分。它极大地塑造了中国的历史。难怪一些学者认为废除科举是近代中国乃至整个中国历史上最具革命性的变化。1905年9月,清廷宣布停止各级科举考试,这实际上标志着科举制度的终结。这件事在当时并没有引起很多讨论。然而,一百多年后,它的影响甚至成为学术界以外的一个激烈争论的话题。本文对近年来关于这一问题的大量研究进行了综述。在过去,文学以改革和革命的价值观,基于一种进步主义的观点,认为科举制度是帝制晚期中国停滞和衰弱的原因,在很长一段时间里几乎没有批评地赞扬了科举制度的废除。近三十年来,越来越多的学者开始反思废除科举对中国近代史进程的负面影响。
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The reform of the legal system in the late Qing 晚清法律制度的改革
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101792
Zaiquan Li
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.
面对列强的侵略和领事管辖权的存在,清政府在20世纪初的新政中开始了法制改革。以沈家本为代表的法律改革派,沿袭了欧洲大陆法系和日本法系的实践。他们修改了传统的中国法律,以实现刑罚轻、残忍少、平等多的法律体系。他们还起草了以前不存在的新法律,如刑法、民法、商法和诉讼法。这一改革打破了中国传统的包括各种法律在内的法典体系。传统的中国法律体系由此迅速被由宪法、民法、刑法、民事诉讼法、刑事诉讼法和行政法组成的现代法律体系所取代。清末的法律改革虽然深刻而有影响,但反映了新旧并存、中西法系相结合的过渡性制度特征。
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From envoy journals to legation reports: regulating knowledge of the world in late imperial and modern China 从使节日记到公使报告:帝国晚期和近代中国的世界知识规范
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101787
J. Day
ABSTRACT In the Qing dynasty, the diary-form for intelligence gathering was perfected by Tulišen, whose travelogue to Central Asia allowed the Kangxi emperor’s “imperial eyes” to assume vicarious witness to that heroic journey. Prior to China’s stationing of resident ministers abroad in 1876, envoy journals similar to Tulišen’s were commonly used for information gathering. In the next three decades, the genre of envoy communication became a fertile field for trials and experimentations, as Qing diplomats adjusted their method of communication to the changing needs of the state and the prevalent media and information technology. When the Qing dynasty established China’s first bureau of foreign affairs (Waiwubu) in 1901, the modern-style “foreign office” required radically new genres for diplomatic communication, which prioritized systemization, standardization, and a complete elimination of subjective experience. These diplomatic reports, akin to Western-style bluebooks, were separated from classified information and thus designed for domestic circulation. Tracing the evolution in diplomatic communications from late imperial China to the turn of the twentieth century, this paper seeks to unpack how new views of the foreign were shaped by new genres, new media, and new diplomatic institutions.
在清朝,Tulišen完善了情报收集的日记形式,他的中亚游记让康熙皇帝的“帝王之眼”代替了他的英雄之旅。在1876年中国驻海外公使之前,通常使用类似Tulišen的使节日志来收集信息。在接下来的三十年里,随着清朝外交官根据国家不断变化的需求以及流行的媒体和信息技术调整他们的沟通方法,使节沟通类型成为了试验和实验的沃土。1901年,清朝设立了中国第一个外事局(外事部),现代风格的“外事局”需要全新的外交沟通体裁,它优先考虑系统化、规范化和完全消除主观经验。这些外交报告类似于西式蓝皮书,与机密信息分开,因此是为国内流通而设计的。本文追溯了从帝制晚期到20世纪之交中国外交传播的演变,试图揭示新流派、新媒体和新外交机构是如何塑造对外国的新看法的。
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Extrajudicial deliberations in the late Qing local government: the case of Du Fengzhi 晚清地方政府的法外审议:杜凤之案
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101794
J. Qiu
ABSTRACT Du Fengzhi, a county magistrate in Guangdong province in the late Qing dynasty, recorded hundreds of legal cases in his diary. In addition to the details of cases and the process of dealing, he also recorded his own observations, doubts, analyses, judgments and deliberations. The diary reflected not only how he dealt with cases, but also the reasons for his decisions. From the diary, we know that Du’s actual judicial power far exceeded the provisions of the Qing law. However, the judicial resources he possessed and the political and social reality he faced often made it difficult for him to deal with legal cases abiding by the statute law, and in many cases the truth could not even be found at all. Therefore, he often ignored the evidence of the case and dealt with them in violation of law. His first consideration was to maintain his position in the officialdom, safeguard his own economic interests and reduce trouble. He also paid attention to the unwritten rules of officialdom and the comments of local gentries. In some cases, he showed his compassion for the poor, orphans and the widowed as well. This article discusses two cases in detail to reflect Du’s various deliberations in dealing with legal cases.
清末广东县令杜凤之在日记中记录了数百起案件。除了记录案件的细节和处理过程外,他还记录了自己的观察、疑惑、分析、判断和审议。日记不仅反映了他如何处理案件,而且还反映了他作出决定的原因。从日记中我们得知,杜的实际司法权远远超出了清法的规定。然而,他所拥有的司法资源和他所面临的政治社会现实往往使他难以按照成文法处理法律案件,甚至在许多案件中根本找不到真相。因此,他经常无视案件证据,违法处理。他首先考虑的是维护自己的官场地位,维护自己的经济利益,减少麻烦。他还注意官场的不成文规则和地方士绅的评论。在某些情况下,他也对穷人、孤儿和寡妇表示同情。本文通过两个案例的详细论述,反映杜在处理法律案件时的各种思考。
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The system of government decision-making and its changes in the late Qing 晚清政府决策制度及其变迁
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101791
Wenjie Li
ABSTRACT The government decision-making in the middle and late Qing Dynasty was mainly shown in the process of how government documents and memorials to the emperor were dealt with. Officials who were authorized with the right to submit memorials to the emperor drafted reports on the state affairs to ask for permissions or offer their own opinions, and the emperor replied to them with absolute power. In the late Qing, the Grand Council (Junjichu), the Six Boards (Bu), Zongli Yamen and other institutions were frequently consulted during the two periods of the empress dowagers’ “administering the state affairs behind the curtain” (chui lian ting zheng), so the higher officials’ role in dealing with state affairs gradually increased. The monarch’s routine approval of higher officials’ suggestions made these institutions to a large extent participated in the daily decision-making. However, the monarch’s authority of final decision-making remained unchanged until the establishment of Yuan Shikai’s cabinet in November 1911 when all government affairs followed the cabinet orders. Then the monarch’s decision-making power became void, and the Qing was actually turned into a constitutional monarchy.
清代中后期的政府决策,主要表现在政府公文和御书的处理过程中。被授予给皇帝上书权的官员们起草国家大事的报告,请求允许或提出自己的意见,皇帝以绝对的权力回答他们。晚清皇太后“幕后施政”的两个时期,军机处、六部、宗理衙门等机构经常被征询意见,高层官员在处理国家事务中的作用逐渐增强。君主对上级官员建议的例行批准使这些机构在很大程度上参与了日常决策。这时君主的决策权就失去了效力,清朝实际上变成了君主立宪制国家。
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Changes in China’s fiscal system in the late Qing 晚清中国财政制度的变迁
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2022.2101793
Zenghe Liu
ABSTRACT In the late Qing, due to frequent large-scale wars, the Board of Revenue (hubu) and provincial treasuries were often in a state of great difficulties, struggling to support the wartime needs. After the central government was forced to delegate the authority of fundraising, tax collection and expenditure to the provinces, the provincial governments had to rely on themselves to relieve financial difficulties. Hence, within the centralized and unified traditional fiscal system, the provincial finance was getting stronger, forming the new pattern that the central and provincial governments had equal control of finance. The allocation system of the national financial resources changed from the direct appropriation of funds from the Board of Revenue to the appropriation according to needs of provinces based on consultations with the provinces. In the later period of the Guangxu reign, the central government actively introduced the western fiscal budget system in order to solve the financial problems and prevent chaos. In revenue and expenditure, the Qing government adhered to the traditional principle of “adjusting expenditure according to the income” (liang ru wei chu), while in the wartime or when the demand of funds substantially increased due to the enforcement of the New Policy Reform, it became trapped in the predicament between the traditional principle and the new principle of “adjusting income according to the expenditure” (liang chu wei ru). When the modern budget system was implemented in the late Qing, the central government resolutely put into effect the above two principles into practical budgetary planning, trying to balance between the steady and the positive policies for expanding financial resources. However, the fiscal reform failed to save the Qing government from ultimate falling after the 1911 Revolution started.
晚清时期,由于频繁的大规模战争,税务府和各省的国库常常处于极度困难的状态,难以支撑战时的需要。在中央政府被迫将筹资、收税和支出的权力下放给各省后,各省政府不得不依靠自己来缓解财政困难。因此,在集中统一的传统财政体制下,省级财政实力不断增强,形成了中央与省级政府平分财政大权的新格局。国家财政资源的分配制度由税收局直接拨付改为在与各省协商的基础上根据各省的需要拨付。光绪后期,中央政府为了解决财政问题,防止混乱,积极引进西方财政预算制度。在收支方面,清政府坚持“按收入调整支出”的传统原则,而在战时或由于新政的实施,资金需求大幅增加时,它陷入了“按支出调整收入”的传统原则与“按支出调整收入”的新原则之间的困境。清末实行现代预算制度时,中央政府果断地将上述两项原则落实到实际的预算规划中,力图在稳健与积极的政策之间取得平衡,以扩大财政资源。然而,辛亥革命爆发后,财政改革未能挽救清政府的最终垮台。
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The “Bipolar disorder” of civilization: the entanglement of disasters and history 文明的“躁郁症”:灾难与历史的纠缠
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17535654.2021.2100608
Qing-Ping Zhu
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