Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1990535
Zhi-Yi Yang
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1990528
Orazio Coco
At the end of the nineteenth century, China presented the characteristics of a stationary economy, rich in resources but weakened by a traditional society and a lack of understanding of economic dynamics. The extraordinary fact was that until the eighteenth century, China was equal to, if not more advanced than, Europe in scientific, technological knowledge and manufacturing processes. Scholars in the second half of the twentieth century underlined that China’s traditional society failed to create endogenous factors that would have encouraged the rise of capitalism and drew attention to ineffective institutions and government policies. More recently, modern scholars have explained that “divergence” was caused by the lack of available commodities. The empire barely stayed ahead of a soaring population and could not cope with the higher demand for natural resources. This article proposes an overview of this debate and examines arguments that are still open to intellectual contribution.
{"title":"China’s Early Industrialization in the Age of the European Colonial Powers: A Controversial Beginning","authors":"Orazio Coco","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2021.1990528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2021.1990528","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the nineteenth century, China presented the characteristics of a stationary economy, rich in resources but weakened by a traditional society and a lack of understanding of economic dynamics. The extraordinary fact was that until the eighteenth century, China was equal to, if not more advanced than, Europe in scientific, technological knowledge and manufacturing processes. Scholars in the second half of the twentieth century underlined that China’s traditional society failed to create endogenous factors that would have encouraged the rise of capitalism and drew attention to ineffective institutions and government policies. More recently, modern scholars have explained that “divergence” was caused by the lack of available commodities. The empire barely stayed ahead of a soaring population and could not cope with the higher demand for natural resources. This article proposes an overview of this debate and examines arguments that are still open to intellectual contribution.","PeriodicalId":41429,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Historical Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"113 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47460845","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}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402x.2021.1923215
Guotong Li
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1924927
Xiaojia Hou
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party established a new province called Pingyuan among the borders of Hebei, Henan and Shandong provinces, then abolished it in 1952. Since then, Pingyuan has been forgotten in history. This article brings to our attention the failed Pingyuan province and examines the region in a longer span of time. The fate of the Pingyuan region was intertwined with factors such the Yellow River floods, railways, and the modern governments’ ever-mounting capacity, or the illusional capacity, to utilize nature. As a case study this article illuminates how the ecological changes had impacted the development of local politics and economy in the transitioning age from pre-modern to modern China.
{"title":"Elapsed Century of a Forgotten Province—Pingyuan in Light of Ecological Changes and Communist Rule","authors":"Xiaojia Hou","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2021.1924927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2021.1924927","url":null,"abstract":"In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party established a new province called Pingyuan among the borders of Hebei, Henan and Shandong provinces, then abolished it in 1952. Since then, Pingyuan has been forgotten in history. This article brings to our attention the failed Pingyuan province and examines the region in a longer span of time. The fate of the Pingyuan region was intertwined with factors such the Yellow River floods, railways, and the modern governments’ ever-mounting capacity, or the illusional capacity, to utilize nature. As a case study this article illuminates how the ecological changes had impacted the development of local politics and economy in the transitioning age from pre-modern to modern China.","PeriodicalId":41429,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Historical Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"27 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1547402X.2021.1924927","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46471756","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}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923220
Mao Lin
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402x.2021.1924929
Q. Edward Wang
society without a complementary democratic polity and the mismatch will eventually require the state to democratize in order to preserve its legitimacy. Referring to what has happened from the beginning of 2020 to the end of the US presidential election, one can agree more with the author’s conclusion in his research. He offers a new angle to observe China’s way to democratization and assures us all that China’s democratization will reflect its own characteristics and will be definitely a source attracting more detailed study and an incentive for many people to dig further and deeper into Chinese history, culture, and social and political tradition.
{"title":"The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture","authors":"Q. Edward Wang","doi":"10.1080/1547402x.2021.1924929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402x.2021.1924929","url":null,"abstract":"society without a complementary democratic polity and the mismatch will eventually require the state to democratize in order to preserve its legitimacy. Referring to what has happened from the beginning of 2020 to the end of the US presidential election, one can agree more with the author’s conclusion in his research. He offers a new angle to observe China’s way to democratization and assures us all that China’s democratization will reflect its own characteristics and will be definitely a source attracting more detailed study and an incentive for many people to dig further and deeper into Chinese history, culture, and social and political tradition.","PeriodicalId":41429,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Historical Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"106 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1547402x.2021.1924929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42931920","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}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923218
Xiaoxiao Li
Confucian ritual, to compare and contrast with the filial narratives of Yan Yuan and Li Gong, two ritualism advocates, and concludes that “the authors of the mourning texts were able to embed affective details that resonated with and spoke for their interior moods” (314). Finally, Epstein brings an inspiring conversation with Hiayan Lee and Patrick Hanan centered on the reading of Sea of Regret. Considering their critiques that the author of Sea of Regret failed to embrace romantic love or sexuality in a modern sense, Epstein rather focuses on the fiction’s depiction of filial love as central to the protagonist’s interiorized subjectivity, by borrowing David Der-wei Wang’s concept of “repressed modernities.” Further, Epstein concludes that the new way reading of Sea of Regret, “taking filial piety seriously as a subjective expression of emotion,” counters the May Fourth paradigm of dismissing the accounts of filial sons and daughters in premodern local gazetteers, fiction, and auto/biographical writings as “nothing more than instrumental responses to state attempts to promote filial piety as a tool of social control” (324). Overall, this interdisciplinary and revisionist study challenges the May Fourth paradigm of seeing filial piety and its associated ritual as “an oppositional relationship to the sincere expression of emotions.” It further advocates a new way rereading the eighteenth-century texts by decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, and calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.
{"title":"Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis","authors":"Xiaoxiao Li","doi":"10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923218","url":null,"abstract":"Confucian ritual, to compare and contrast with the filial narratives of Yan Yuan and Li Gong, two ritualism advocates, and concludes that “the authors of the mourning texts were able to embed affective details that resonated with and spoke for their interior moods” (314). Finally, Epstein brings an inspiring conversation with Hiayan Lee and Patrick Hanan centered on the reading of Sea of Regret. Considering their critiques that the author of Sea of Regret failed to embrace romantic love or sexuality in a modern sense, Epstein rather focuses on the fiction’s depiction of filial love as central to the protagonist’s interiorized subjectivity, by borrowing David Der-wei Wang’s concept of “repressed modernities.” Further, Epstein concludes that the new way reading of Sea of Regret, “taking filial piety seriously as a subjective expression of emotion,” counters the May Fourth paradigm of dismissing the accounts of filial sons and daughters in premodern local gazetteers, fiction, and auto/biographical writings as “nothing more than instrumental responses to state attempts to promote filial piety as a tool of social control” (324). Overall, this interdisciplinary and revisionist study challenges the May Fourth paradigm of seeing filial piety and its associated ritual as “an oppositional relationship to the sincere expression of emotions.” It further advocates a new way rereading the eighteenth-century texts by decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, and calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.","PeriodicalId":41429,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Historical Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"103 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45739087","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}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402x.2021.1923221
M. Rodríguez
sition and democratization. However, most the essays fall into the category of linear history, as the authors approach Taiwan’s nation building and democratization as evolving toward a certain end. Most essays also seem to share a circular reasoning. Taiwan should become a nation because Taiwan has become a democracy. And Taiwan has become a democracy because Taiwan is already a de facto nation. Overall, the book is still a useful contribution to the scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2021.1923213
Cyril Cordoba
During the Cold War, the Sino-Belgian writer Han Suyin was one of the People’s Republic of China’s most famous propagandists in the West. Originally known as an author of autobiographical romance novels, she used her renown to promote and defend Beijing’s radical politics from the 1950s to the 1990s. Her controversial analyses and her oratory skill attracted diverse audiences to her lectures throughout the world. This article investigates multiple facets of this charismatic figure and aims to deconstruct the public persona of Han Suyin in order to understand how she came to embody the political concept of “friendship with China.”
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