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The return of the “Ashi Point” from its journey East and its modern theoretical reconstruction Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 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...
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To be canonic or scientific: a study of knowledge innovation of acupuncture and moxibustion in the Republican period of China Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2023-11-16 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 ...
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The system of government decision-making and its changes in the late Qing Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2022-09-13 LI Wenjie
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
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Extrajudicial deliberations in the late Qing local government: the case of Du Fengzhi Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2022-09-13 QIU Jie
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
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The mainstay of government finance: land tax and state revenue in the Qing (1730–1911) Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-12-22 ZHAO Siyuan (赵思渊)
(2020). The mainstay of government finance: land tax and state revenue in the Qing (1730–1911) Journal of Modern Chinese History: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 330-332.
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Kang Youwei and Confucianism in Canada and beyond, 1899–1911 Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Zhongping CHEN
Based on the new discovery of two of Kang Youwei’s writings composed in Canada in 1899, this article expands the historical research concerning his Confucian religious thoughts and movement within ...
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Kang Youwei’s propaganda adjustments after the Hundred Days Reform, 1898–1900 Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Xiaoye JIA
After the failed Hundred Days Reform, Kang Youwei launched a propaganda campaign in the newspapers under his control. In addition to casting himself in a favorable light, the campaign served two ot...
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Heeding the warnings: Deng Huaxi and Zheng Guanying’s Shengshi weiyan Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Ying-Kit CHAN
This article establishes a link between Qing-dynasty official Deng Huaxi (1826–1916) and comprador Zheng Guanying’s (1842–1922) political treatise Shengshi weiyan (Warnings to a Prosperous Age). It...
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Cross-cultural sexual narratives and gendered reception in Republican China Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rachel Hui-Chi HSU
This article examines nonfiction sexual narratives inspired by foreign thought in Republican China. It highlights female viewpoints to recover their hidden voices in history and shows the socio-cul...
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Discovering Republican history in diaries Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2019-07-03 LI Zhiyu
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When the rule of law met rule by the party: the conflicts between Baptist schools and the local Guomindang in Republican Suzhou Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2019-07-03 CHEN Bin
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between the Guomindang (GMD) and the courts by focusing on the 1929 conflicts between the Suzhou Baptist schools and the local GMD party apparatus. The GMD regime supported the principle of rule by the party. At the local level, the GMD’s rise was often stymied by the independent judiciary whose judgments were based on the principle of the rule of law.
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Was the enlightenment a continuous process from the late Qing to the May Fourth period? Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Fan-Sen WANG
ABSTRACT Intellectual development from the late Qing to the 1911 Revolution and then to the May Fourth New Culture Movement was generally a continuous process despite various ambivalent and hesitant zigzags. Within this overall continuity, new elements became salient. The new policies promulgated by the republican government soon after the success of the 1911 Revolution created an institutional legacy
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Tianshui’s three treasures: water and soil conservation in wartime northwest China Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Micah S. MUSCOLINO
ABSTRACT In addition to examining how wartime imperatives shaped the agricultural research, demonstration, and extension programs undertaken by the Nationalist government’s Tianshui Water and Soil Conservation Experiment Area (the Experiment Area) after its founding in 1942, this article assesses the rural populace’s responses to these conservation measures. While the Experiment Area’s plans to construct
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The relief campaign after the Eight-Nation Alliance’s invasion in 1900 Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Jie SHEN
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A Collection of Historical Documents on Taxation in the Republican Period Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Zhixiong JIN
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
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Surviving the Second World War in Manchukuo: memories of Korean experiences of the war in Manchurian farming villages Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Chong Eun AHN
ABSTRACT When the Second Sino–Japanese War broke out in 1937, it became increasingly important for the Japanese Empire to secure and exploit areas under its colonial control in order to strengthen the imperial forces. Focusing on the memories of the Chaoxian zu (ethnic Korean) peasants in Minle Chaoxian zu Township, Heilongjiang, this article examines how Korean migrant peasants in Manchukuo survived
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The United States government’s deliberations and actions on the status of the South China Sea Islands, 1943–1951: the formation of American policy towards South China Sea disputes Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Guang LI
ABSTRACT In 1943, the United States began to consider the issue of the world order after the end of World War II; at that time, the status of the islands in the South China Sea remained undetermined. Towards the end of the war, a US policy-planning document on this issue favored either returning the islands to one of the parties claiming sovereignty or placing the islands under international trusteeship
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Exploring a new frontier in history: Shanghai in the 1950s Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Wennan Liu
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Shanghai around 1949: continuity or rupture? Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Jishun Zhang
A City Displaced: Shanghai in the 1950s was inspired by my academic interest in revisiting the important historical juncture of 1949; it was a bid to bridge the pre- and post-1949 eras and restore ...
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The two starting points of World War II: a reexamination from a global perspective Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Haipeng Zhang
ABSTRACT Although the factual chronology of World War II is not in dispute, how to best make sense of these facts and how to objectively evaluate that history have always been limited by political circumstances and personal biases. Viewing WWII seven decades later, we need to move away from Eurocentrism and to stop seeing the war from the prism of a European war or Pacific war. The entire history of
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From scholar to bureaucrat: the political choice of the historical geographer Zhang Qiyun Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Fangyu He
ABSTRACT In the mid-1920s, under the guidance of his teacher, Zhu Kezhen, Zhang Qiyun established himself as a scholar by compiling middle school geography textbooks. He reached the peak of his early academic career when he joined the National Defense Planning Commission (Guofang sheji weiyuanhui) in 1932. His subsequent setbacks offered him a different kind of experience. During his tenure at Zhejiang