Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China

Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China
ISBN-10
1684173744
ISBN-13
9781684173747
Category
History
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2020-03-23
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Rebecca E. Karl, Peter Zarrow

Description

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.

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