The Chinese Gazette in European Sources
Title | The Chinese Gazette in European Sources PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Standaert |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2022-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004505008 |
By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers.
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China
Title | The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Mokros |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 029574880X |
In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. This illuminating study presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state’s inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette’s evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power.
From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs
Title | From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Meyer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 662 |
Release | 2023-03-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004533001 |
This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
Title | Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China PDF eBook |
Author | Tian Yu Cao |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 459 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004175164 |
In the face of rapid and radical social changes since the late 1970s, contemporary China faces tremendous challenges. What is China transforming toward? What are the ideological positions and, more generally, cultural values that inform, question, and demand critical assessment of the social transformations in the reform era? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers in and outside of contemporary China, the essays, in different ways, examine the extent to which three major cultural resources, namely traditional, May Fourth, and socialist, have been (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and mobilized to address the challenges brought about by the changed and changing social and economic conditions of the reform era.
The Great Divergence
Title | The Great Divergence PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Pomeranz |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691217181 |
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.
Qing Travelers to the Far West
Title | Qing Travelers to the Far West PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Huangfu Day |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2018-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108471323 |
This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.
Europe in China
Title | Europe in China PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest John Eitel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 624 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | British |
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