The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the "new" woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experience of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways.
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century.
... 1898. Judge, Joan. “Chinese Women's History: Global Circuits, Local Meanings ... Reform in Late Qing China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. ———. “Reforming the Feminine: Female Literacy and the Legacy of 1898.” In Karl and ...
... reform.6 In a sense, it brought the very role of government to the center of ... Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in the Late ... Reform, but also particular formats of knowledge and information gathering ...
This book examines the transformation of Japan’s attitude toward China up to the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904/5), when the psychological framework within which future Chinese-Japanese relations worked reached its erstwhile ...
'Tang Qunying yu nüzi canzheng tongmenghui' (Tang Qunying and the Chinese Women's Suffrage Alliance), Guizhou shehui kexue, no. 4 (1981): 30–37. Yao Shunsheng. Zhongguo funü dashi nianbiao (Chronological Table of Events Concerning ...
If East Asia could move toward Western-style “civilization” and modernity, this line went, they could win the battle for survival of the fittest. The advocacy of “civilization and enlightenment” was closely tied to national ...
"One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women’s writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.–1911 C.E.).
... rethinking” of the 1898 reforms resulted in substantial progress in the study of the period but unavoidably neglected certain aspects of the reform era.8 It is in this interpretive space that we seek to make a contribution, by focusing ...
Yun Zhang. men, and women share not even an iota of responsibility in providing for the family. Yan also echoed Liang's criticism of talented women and regarded their learning as nothing but the ability to “understand some proses or ...
This text provides fresh interpretations and keen insights into China's pivotal transition from dynasty to republic.