Author: Paul HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Guide to Important Mission Stations in Eastern China
Author: Paul HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Guide to Important Mission Stations in Eastern China
Author: Paul HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Modern Erasures
Author: Pierre FullerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009027921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement of 1919 and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969 to shed light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book burning and bloodletting, during China's revolutions. Focusing on communities in remote Gansu province and the wider region over half a century, Fuller argues that in order to justify the human cost of revolution and the building of the national party-state, a form of revolutionary memory developed in China on the nature of social relations and civic affairs in the recent past. Through careful analysis of intellectual and cultural responses to, and memories of, earthquakes, famine and other disaster events in China, this book shows how the Maoist evocation of the 'old society' earmarked for destruction was only the most extreme phase of a transnational, colonial-era conversation on the 'backwardness' of rural communities.
Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal
Author: Millard's Review of the Far East
Author: The China Mission Year Book
Author: Fukien
Author: Anti-Cobweb Club, FoochowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fujian Sheng (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Railroads and the Transformation of China
Author: Elisabeth KöllPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674916425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Chinese Affairs ...
Author: Scholars' Guide to China Mission Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States
Author: Archie R. CrouchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description