... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Puerperal fever was claimed to be the most common cause of maternal mortality in Republican China. According to a study on 2,150 consecutive...

...This chapter highlights the deep impact of the intellectual constructs of nation building on the political life of Republican China. It also explores how different visions of nation led to two dramatically different defensive strategies after the eruption of full war with Japan. Wang Jingwei...

... images and the final forms of missionary visual practices in late Republican China. To understand the full trajectory of the missionary enterprise's decline in China, however, the chapter starts by looking at the beginning of the end. It then analyzes the contrasting perspectives of two California...

... qiaopi qiaopi trade Chinese international migration Chinese transnationalism Qing Republican China People’s Republic of China From one of the world’s largest diasporas, Chinese migrants and their descendants have maintained close ties with their families and their ancestral homeland. Scholars have...

...Stefan Zweig’s works were first introduced in Republican China after the fall of the Qing Empire (1644-1911) during a period of transition, re-orientation, and civil war. This chapter focuses on two cases, Geng Jizhi’s (1899-1947) translation of the novella The Governess of 1927...

... of Republican China, stirring deep cultural recollections amidst Taiwan's complex socio-political landscape. The strategies in Lai's works not only navigated the Taiwan Strait but also sought to heal internal conflicts. Chang Hsiao yen Lai Sheng chuan Stan Lee Chris Lin Ching hsia Brigitte Night We Became...

... Meyer Arnold Julean Booker Edna Lee Cunningham Edwin Cunningham Rhoda Madame Chiang Kai shek Chinese New Year Pedersen Thyra sexuality Shanghai cosmopolitism 1920s Qing Republican China courtesans British bridge games gambling “visitors to shanghai who ride past any...

...This chapter examines the geography of power, particularly the political legitimacy in Republican China. It notes the advancement of the globalization of law and the internationalization of norms. The Chinese trials of Japanese war crimes were, at worst, a microcosm reflecting the horrors...

... that illustrates a line of mercantilist-reformist politics at the eve of Republican China. colonialism colonized Dirlik Arif Eitel Ernest John English language Fanon Frantz Hennessy John Pope Ho Kai In between In betweenness Legge James Cohen Paul colonizer Comprodor Esherick Joseph Republican China...

... of the Bureau of Legal Affairs (Fazhi ju) and one of the most prominent legal specialists in Republican China. The chapter demonstrates Wang's interest in and knowledge of Western laws and his vision in China as an egalitarian republic. It also sheds light on the institutionalization of martyrdom during...

...This concluding chapter focuses on the legacy of the Lower Yangzi chambers of commerce. The network revolution led by these chambers of commerce and other new associations in late Qing and early Republican China constituted one of the most substantial and significant aspects of sociopolitical...

... Shanghai Republican China I still remember this great ten-mile-foreign-place [Shanghai] as it was a decade ago, with its unending flood of horses and cars and its rampant competition for ostentatious display. There was no evil it did not possess, no curiosity it did not have. Deceitful and dishonest...

... prostitution masochism psychology Lu Xun Zhang Yiping Letter from an Unknown Woman Qingshu Love-letter Republican China Modernity Feud In November 1933 Huatong Bookshop (Huatong shuju) in Shanghai published the first Chinese translation of Stefan Zweig’s most famous novella, Letter from...

... future avenues for research are opened up in all chapters. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given. Communism and, ironically, nationalism have seen openness as a cause of decline in republican China. Boxer Rebellion Cold War Communist Party Japan Nationalist Party Opium Wars...

...Unearthing the Nation uses the development of modern geology to explore the complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. While social commentators of the time could link science, modernization and national empowerment in abstract terms, Chinese...

... in the context of rising interest in Republican China in issues of gender differences, sex, and (homo)sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. Ellis's Chinese translators such as Zhou Zuoren, Zhang Jingsheng, and Pan Guangdan adapted his ideas to validate their own perspectives regarding social and sexual...

...This chapter shows that even if the central government is often believed to have been weak in republican China, it displayed considerable elements of continuity in terms of political vision, administrative practice, and government personnel. It also explores the growth of participatory politics...

...This chapter presents the text of a lecture on Buddhist archaeology in Republican China given at the British Academy's 2008 Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture. This texxt explains that Chinese archaeologists have transformed the notion of the nation and its artistic history...

... Convention of Peking’ ‘Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory’ nationalism Records of Yuan Yimin in Canton Yuan Guangdong yimin lu Republican China Chen Shuren geopolitics Hu Hanmin May Fourth Movement University of Hong Kong Yu Youren malleable materiality rhetoric handover Japan...