Book Review: Xiantao ZHANG, The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press: The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 178 pp. with notes and index. ISBN: 978-0-415-38066-9 (hc). Price: US$150.00

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-519
Author(s):  
Cynthia Brokaw
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Late Qing China

A Precious Mirror for Governing the Peace: A Primer for Empress Dowager Cixi

NAN Nü ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-244
Author(s):  
Ying-kit Chan
Keyword(s):  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Late Qing China ◽  
Chinese Historiography ◽  
Political Vocabulary

The vilified Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) of late Qing China remains a symbol of national humiliation and weakness in modern Chinese historiography. Scholars attribute Cixi’s “rule behind the curtains” responsible for the ultimate decline of the Qing dynasty and its capitulatory peace with foreign powers. This article revisits the conditions that enabled Cixi’s rise to power during the Tongzhi reign (1861–75) and argues that Hanlin academicians regarded her as a potentially capable regent upon whom they could count to manage state affairs in the best interests of the Tongzhi emperor. This article also argues that Cixi acquired her political vocabulary from her Hanlin lecturers who compiled a unique primer for their patroness – the Zhiping baojian (A precious mirror for governing the peace) – on female regency in China’s imperial past.


Book review

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Z. Berzsenyi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth And Yield ◽  
Madison Avenue

A. R. Overman and R. V. Scholtz III.: Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield. Marcel Dekker, 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. 2002. Hardcover, 344 pp., 150.00. ISBN 0-8247-0825-3.

Book review

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
G. Vida
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pest Management

D. Pimentel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Pest Management. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel, 2002. 929 pp. ISBN 0-8247-0632-0

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