Author: Mary Clabaugh WrightPublisher: Stanford : Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism
Author: Mary Clabaugh WrightPublisher: Stanford : Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism
Author: Mary Clabaugh WrightPublisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism
Author: Mary C. WrightImperialism and Idealism
Author: David L. AndersonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253329189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Combining biography with foreign-policy analysis, David L. Anderson provides a fresh interpretation of Sino-American relations in the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the eight Americans who occupied the chief U.S. diplomatic post in China from 1861 to 1898 and personally shaped American policy toward China in the forty years before Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Notes. Their policies, as Anderson explains, were as varied as the eight individuals, and yet at the same time were characteristically American—expressing both idealistic altruism and imperialistic self-interest. Ultimately, John Hay merged the altruism and the self-interest in the Open Door Notes of 1899 and 1900, which influenced much of America's twentieth-century conduct in Asia. Anderson reemphasizes Hay's role in bridging the differences that have plagued U.S. policy in China.
Discovering History in China
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231151926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Sold People
Author: Johanna S. RansmeierPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A young woman as portable property -- The flow of trafficking in the Qing -- New laws and emerging language -- Fictive families and children in the marketplace -- Moving beyond the reach of the law -- The warlord's widow and the chief of police -- Domestic bonds -- Talking with traffickers
China Unbound
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134428375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. This is a strong collection which will be of enormous interest to scholars of East Asian history.
Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy
Author: Philipp R. RössnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317397401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization. Through an examination both of the roots of European industrialization and of the history of economic ideas, this book presents a uniquely broad examination of the origins of modern political economy. This volume asks what can we learn from ‘old’ theories in terms of our understanding of history, our economic fate today, and the prospects for the modern world’s poorest countries. Spanning across the past five hundred years, this book brings together leading international contributors offering comparative perspectives with countries outside of Europe in order to place the evolution of modern economic knowledge into a broader reference framework. It integrates economic discourse and the intellectual history of political economy with more empirical studies in economic history and the history of science. In doing so, this innovative volume presents a coherent and innovative new strategy towards a reconfiguration of the history of modern political economy. This book is suitable for those who study history of economic thought, economic history or European history.
Importing the European Army
Author: David B. RalstonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226703190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In a study that extends well beyond military history, David B. Ralston documents the ways in which five different countries—Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan—refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600. The appropriation of Western military institutions in countries outside of Europe was, Ralston argues, the major force driving these countries to adopt European administrative, economic, and cultural modes. Following the same format in his discussion of each country, Ralston makes this central theme in world history easily accessible to students while offering scholars a sophisticated understanding of the exact nature of the changes brought about by Europeanizing military reforms. David B. Ralston, associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of The Army of the Republic.
V.K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China
Author: Stephen G. CraftPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813157560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo (1888-1985) was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in twentieth-century China. After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Koo entered government service in 1912 intent on revising the unequal treaty system imposed on China in the nineteenth century, believing that breaking the shackles of imperialism would bring China into the "family of nations." His pursuit of this nationalistic agenda was immediately interrupted by Chinese civil war and Japanese imperialism during World War I. In the 1930s Koo attempted to use international law to force western powers to honor their treaty obligations to punish Japanese expansion. Koo also participated in creating the League of Nations and later the United Nations in the hope that collective security would become reality.