One Hundred Years of Modern Chinese Historiography: Reading Wang Xuedian’s Chronology of Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Historiography

Recent Studies of Modern Chinese History

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans van de Ven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Western Scholarship

Some time ago the Commonwealth and Overseas History Society of Cambridge University asked me to provide an overview of recent scholarship on modern Chinese history. What follows is a written version of this ‘public service’ lecture aimed at non-specialist historians. It discusses Western scholarship on China from the eighteenth until the twentieth century.

Chinese Muslims in Transregional Spaces of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Beyond in the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-155
Author(s):  
Wlodzimierz Cieciura
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Chinese Muslims ◽  
History Of

This article examines the modern social history of Chinese Hui Muslims in the context of transregional connections within and beyond the borders of the two modern Chinese nation-states, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan. The article applies Engseng Ho’s concepts for the study of Inter-Asia to the biographical study of several prominent Hui religious professionals and intellectuals. The experiences and personal contributions to the development of modern Chinese Muslim culture of people like Imam Ma Songting are scrutinized, along with political and ideological conflicts over different visions of Chineseness and “Huiness” during the turbulent twentieth century. It is argued that when studying the social history of Chinese Muslims, researchers should not limit themselves to the religious activities of Hui elites that occurred within the confines of the two Chinese nation-states, but should also take into consideration the expansion of those elites’ religious activities abroad and the intensive circulation of knowledge across Inter-Asian spaces in which they participated.

A Note on Historical Periodicals of Twentieth-Century China

1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-590
Author(s):  
Ping-Kuen Yu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Chinese Historiography

China is known for a long and outstanding tradition of historical writing, but it has been only in this century that an examination of history has developed in periodicals. The earliest of these periodicals was Hsin-min Ts'ung-pao, which was published in 1902 in Yokohama, under the chief editorship of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao. Since that time, there have been numerous other periodicals, the most recent being Wen Shih, first published in October 1962, in Peking. Little effort seems to have been made to study the development of these historical journals. There have been many discussions of Chinese historiography, by Ku Chieh-kang, Chin Yü-fu, Wei Ying-ch'i, Teng Ssu-yü, and J. Gray, to name a few, but these scholars have largely overlooked periodical writings.

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.


Gu Jiegang: His Last Thirty Years

1982 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Richter
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
New Culture Movement ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Historiography ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
Annotated Translation ◽  
The New Culture Movement

When in 1931 the late Arthur W. Hummel published his annotated translation of Gu Jiegang's Preface to the Gushi-bian, only the first two volumes of this opus magnum in modern Chinese historiography had appeared. Yet, Hummel recognized the nascent work as “an admirable introduction to the technique and temper of Chinese scholarship” of the post-May-Fourth “Chinese Renaissance” era, and its then youthful editor as an historian who, although he had never studied abroad or with a western teacher, was able to conduct such a large-scale disputation on ancient Chinese history “in the most rigorous scientific manner” owing to his “firm grasp of the best traditions of native scholarship, together with what he had learned of western methods.” Most of the leaders of the “New Culture Movement” (yet another name for the intellectual tide around May Fourth) subsequently contributed to the Gushi-bian, the spiritus rector of which Gu remained, although he had to ask colleagues for help with the editing.

1911 in Chengdu

boundary 2 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-199
Author(s):  
Yi Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Chinese Revolution ◽  
Modern Chinese

With a narrative scheme of manifold plots and characters, cumulating in the eruption of a communal crowd, Li Jieren’s trilogy on the Chinese Revolution of 1911 scales history from individual to mass experience with an ethnohistorical perspective. In this spatially and scenically structured ethnohistorical novel series, Li locates what he calls the “historical real” in the intertwining of political upheavals and the “stirrings in people’s lives and feelings” of a particular place, where local characters become makers and riders of historical “great waves” through processes of socialization within an inherited but changing communal network. The essay argues that in Li’s gazetteer-style account, the geographically rooted multifariousness of human feelings and actions escalates into an ending that belies the claims of a bourgeois national revolution. Its narrative heralded a modern Chinese historical novel with formal and affective possibilities that becomes all the more significant because of its loss in the second half of the twentieth century.

What is Behind Yinshun’s Re-statement of the Nature of the M?lamadhyamakak?rik?? Debates on the Creation of a New Mah?y?na in Twentieth-century China

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Travagnin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Textual Scholarship ◽  
Textual Study ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Chinese Buddhists ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Yinshun (1906–2005) is regarded as one of the most eminent monks in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. Previous research has argued that Yinshun especially undertook the mission of writing new commentaries on Madhyamaka texts. His efforts provoked a revival of interest towards the Madhyamaka school among contemporary Chinese Buddhists, and a re-assessment of the position of the writings of N?g?rjuna within the history of Chinese Buddhism. This article focuses on Yinshun’s restatement of the nature of the M?lamadhyamakak?rik?, a text that has always been regarded as fundamental in the Madhyamaka/San-lun tradition in China. The first part analyzes Yinshun’s textual study of the M?lamadhyamakak?rik?, examining his approach to the text, and how he came to terms with previous Chinese traditional textual scholarship and canonical scriptures. The second part discusses Yinshun’s interpretation of the text by moving away from the micro-context of Chinese San-lun scholarship, and addressing the macro-context of the modern Chinese understanding of the Mah?y?na.

Performing Gender at the Beginning of Modern Chinese Theatre

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
New School ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Female Impersonators ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
Spoken Drama

In the early twentieth century, female impersonators in Japan's first Western-style theatre, shinpa (new school drama), employed gender performance conventions based on kabuki onnagata and European melodramatic techniques. Shinpa performers influenced the performance of gender in early Chinese spoken drama. Chinese student actors emulated shinpa conventions in Tokyo and popularized them in Shanghai in the 1910s, where they were accepted as being accurate enactments of modern women.

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