Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period : Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China / Rebecca E. Karl, Peter Zarrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karl, Rebecca E., editor.

Zarrow, Peter, editor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 214.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 214

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political and social economy.

Social change.

China--History--Reform movement, 1898.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow

Introduction / Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow

The Reform Movement, the Monarchy, and Political Modernity / Peter Zarrow

Literati-Journalists of the Chinese Progress (Shiwu bao) in Discord, 1896-1898 / Seungjoo Yoon

Zhang Zhidong's Proposal for Reform: A New Reading of the Quanxue pian / Tze-ki Hon

The Founding of the Imperial University and the Emergence of Ghinese Modernity / Timothy B. Weston

Placing the Hundred Days: Native-Place Ties and Urban Space / Richard Belsky

Reforming the Feminine: Female Literacy and the Legacy of 1898 / Joan Judge

Naming the First 'New Woman' / Hu Ying

'Slavery,' Citizenship, and Gender in Late Qing China's Global Context / Rebecca E. Karl

'Poetic Revolution,' Colonization, and Form at the Beginning of Modern Chinese Literature / Xiaobing Tang

Index / Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

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

ISBN:

9781684173747

9780674008540

OCLC:

1001537176

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173747 DOI

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