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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Chinese history"”.
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Evaluating General Histories of China: A Comparative Analysis of Textbook Treatments of the Taiping Rebellion
John King Fairbank has called the field of Chinese history "still profoundly underdeveloped." Specialists are in short supply while misinformation abounds. The American public have alternately loved and feared the Chinese, but the time is long overdue for education leading to more rational than …
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A Museum of the Illustrations of the Hall Encircled by Jade
… Jade (1602-1605), the longest woodblock print in Chinese history, which is to explore the representation of painting, space, culture, story, and literature through architectural methods.
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… from 1900 to 1930s. This thesis recovers the history of initiating gendered healthcare and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal memoirs. In addition, this thesis analyzes the challenges and breakthroughs of women in medicine, …
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Remaking Chineseness: The Transition Of Inner Asian Groups In The Central Plain During The Sixteen Kingdoms Period And Northern Dynasties
… Sinicization theory evolves in the intellectual history of modern times. This chapter, in one hand, offers a different explanation on the origin of the Sinicization theory in both China and the West, and their relationships. In the other hand, it incorporates Sinicization theory into the …
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A Pragmatic Experiment of Rural Construction Movement: The Self-Government of Wanxi in Southwestern Henan, 1930 -1940
… of Wanxi had two-fold significance for modern Chinese history study. First, it could be regarded as a vivid case of Guomindanga??s failure in extending the state power to the rural society. Second, the local self-government of Wanxi was one successful rural reconstruction experiment in the …
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The Armpit Sage V. the Golden Barbarian: Zhen Luan's Response to the Taoist Conversion Narrative
… a single line of argument from a medieval Chinese dispute between the supporters of Taoism and Buddhism. Western rhetorical scholars have generally ignored Chinese argumentation. It seems that the Western understanding of China as a rigidly hierarchical society has lead to the conclusion …
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Stories of Self and Other: Four In-Service Social Studies Teachers Reflect on Their International Professional Development
… the contexts in which these teachers learn about Chinese history and culture supports the analyses of their narratives. The participants' narratives indicate that a variety of elements of the study tour reinforced the notion that they were innocent observers of China. With few exceptions, they …
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Twentieth century Chinese architecture : examples and their significance in a modern tradition
… in this relatively short period of a modern Chinese tradition, it might be surprising to find that amidst the jolts of passing out of a feudal era into the twentieth century, the ancient principles of yin and yang still provide the jagged thread with which to attach the modern Chinese culture …
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Voltaire: From Sacrificial to Judicial System in the Play The Orphan of China
… The Orphan of China, was an adaptation of a Chinese play, The Orphan of the Mansion Tchao. Many critics contend that in this play Voltaire is: 1. Propagating the spirit of the Enlightenment to the Europeans via his representation of the Chinese; 2. Refuting Rousseau because he condemns …
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Shanshuihua: ‘Mountain-water-painting’ for an ecological age
… painting’, within broader traditions of Chinese ink painting, or shuimohua, and, through links with ancient Chinese philosophies, considers its continuing relevance to contemporary painting, and modern ecological themes, both in China and beyond. The research initially assesses historical …
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The politics and identity of fashion changes in early-twentieth century China
… an important site of normative prescription in Chinese history. In the beginning of the twentieth-century, China was beleaguered by the threat of foreign invasion, territorial loss, economic depression, a collapsing empire and the pressing need for industrialization and modernization. The task …
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China's Political Game Face
… is discussed and reviewed within the context of Chinese history following the political evolution of Chinese governance, and examined specifically in the post-1949 period. The durability of these various influences are then evaluated in conjunction with three critical elements of modern China’s …
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Colonialism in contention: the 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots in Qing China
… were the greatest popular disturbances in the history of foreign concessions in Shanghai. Although previous scholarship has shed light on the reasons for and the repercussion of the riots, a rigid Sino-France dichotomy and China-centered approach seem to have been uncritically applied. Based …
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A study of the Zhiqing identity
More than seventeen million Chinese urban youth (Zhiqing in Chinese) went to the countryside, lived and engaged in agricultural work there during the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement (1967-1981). Although this movement was officially terminated in 1981, it has left an …
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Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
… Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped stones now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. These drum-shaped stones with seal scripts were originally made before the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC), and were first discovered in 627CE. The …
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(What is not written on) The Wall : a choreographic exploration of censorship and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
… system of revision rather than preservation of Chinese cultural history particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries. To conduct my research, I studied articles written by Chinese scholars and artists living outside of China discussing China’s cultural history, reviews of performances of Chinese …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… of different aesthetic and poetic traditions in Chinese history can be readily observed. Through a detailed analysis of literary devices including the juxtaposition of time-space configurations, the interactions of diversified linguistic elements and the micro-histories involved in the …
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The examination of the traditional femininity and women’s lives in ancient China
… the evolution of the concept of traditional Chinese femininity in relation to women’s lives in ancient China (221 BCE – A.D.1840). It proposes that the traditional Chinese femininity had been trying to seek a balance between the permanent principles and contingency plans for the stability and …
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Confronting the “European War” in Early Republican China: ROC’s Constitutional Process and the First World War
… topics: the war participation debate, the Chinese Labour Corps, and the May Fourth Movement. This dissertation argues that the First World War was a transformative event that significantly shaped the constitutional trajectory of the nascent Republic of China. The outbreak of the First World …
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