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Transformations of Modern China

Herausgegeben von: Jennifer Altehenger, Daniel Leese, Nicola Spakowski und Sebastian Veg

ISSN: 2511-6029

e-ISSN 2511-6096

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The growing importance of China in the 21st century has increased public interest in the history of China and its complex political, economic and cultural entanglement with other regions in modern times. “Modern” here broadly refers to the period of growing encounters and interactions between China and the world, especially since the 19th century. This new series aims at offering fresh scholarly perspectives at both domestic and international developments during this period. It explicitly calls for proposals that trace processes of transformation, adaption or continuity within Chinese society, which often cross well-established political boundaries such as the 1911 or 1949 divides. Emphasis will be placed on works that explore novel questions and theoretical approaches or that utilize previously neglected sources.

If you are interested in submitting your manuscript to the editors, please write to: daniel.leese@sinologie.uni-freiburg.de

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Jennifer Altehenger, Kings College London; Sebastian Veg, EHESS Paris; Dong Guoqiang, Univ. Nanjing; Eugenia Lean, Columbia Univ., Daniel Leese/Nicola Spakowski, Univ. Freiburg

Fachgebiete

Buch 2021

From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism

Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China

Aymeric Xu

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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What does it mean to be a conservative in Republican China? Challenging the widely held view that Chinese conservatism set out to preserve traditional culture and was mainly a cultural movement, this book proposes a new framework with which to analyze modern Chinese conservatism. It identifies late Qing culturalist nationalism, which incorporates traditional culture into concrete political reforms inspired by modern Western politics, as the origin of conservatism in the Republican era. During the May Fourth period, New Culture activists belittled any attempts to reintegrate traditional culture with modern politics as conservative. What conservatives in Republican China stood for was essentially this late Qing culturalist nationalism that rejected squarely the museumification of traditional culture. Adopting a typological approach in order to distinguish different types of conservatism by differentiating various political implications of traditional culture, this book divides the Chinese conservatism of the Republican era into four typologies: liberal conservatism, antimodern conservatism, philosophical conservatism, and authoritarian conservatism. As such, this book captures – for the first time – how Chinese conservatism was in constant evolution, while also showing how its emblematic figures reacted differently to historical circumstances.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740189
ISBN:: 9783110740189
ISBN:: 9783110739909
ISBN:: 9783110740264
ISBN:: 9783111122205
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ostasien
Fachgebiet:: China
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Colonial und Postcolonial History
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a Post-War Settlement, 1942–1949

Treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet

Zhaodong Wang

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discussions over both the 1943 Sino-British treaty and the discarded Sino-British commercial treaty, the future of Hong Kong, and the political status of Tibet. These were dominated by two underlying themes: the elimination of the British imperialist position in China and the establishment of an equal and reciprocal bilateral relationship. The negotiations started promisingly in 1942–1943, but, by 1949, had failed to reach a satisfactory settlement. Behind the failure lay a complex set of domestic considerations and external factors, including the powerful infl uence of the United States. Even after seven decades, the failure still has a contemporary impact. Recent Sino-British disputes over the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement and incessant Indo-Chinese confl icts and skirmishes over their unsettled borders all attest to the enduring legacy of the years 1942–1949 as setting the scene for subsequent Sino-British and Sino-Indian relations. From this perspective, the history has never left us.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706659
ISBN:: 9783110706659
ISBN:: 9783111355689
ISBN:: 9783110706710
ISBN:: 9783110706420
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ostasien
Fachgebiet:: China
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Colonial und Postcolonial History
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2018

1919 – The Year That Changed China

A New History of the New Culture Movement

Elisabeth Forster, Knowledge Unlatched

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560718
ISBN:: 9783110560718
ISBN:: 9783110682731
ISBN:: 9783110558296
ISBN:: 9783110558135
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ostasien
Fachgebiet:: China
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2018

Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China

A Case-Study Approach

Daniel Leese, Puck Engman

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Eine erstmalige Analyse maoistischer Justiz auf Basis von Originalfallakten, die aufgrund ihrer plastischen Details einen tiefen Einblick in die chinesische Rechts-, Politik- und Sozialgeschichte geben. Durch die Betonung der Akteuersebene wird, jenseits von Metadiskursen, der totalitäre Charakter der frühen Volksrepublik China und der mehr oder minder großer Spielraum von Angeklagten, Richtern und politischer Führung ausgelotet.

Der Band versammelt chinesische, europäische und amerikanische Wissenschaftler, um gemeinsam eine Revision des bisherigen Forschungsstandes zu ermöglichen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110533651
ISBN:: 9783110533651
ISBN:: 9783110707786
ISBN:: 9783110531091
ISBN:: 9783110531046
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg