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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Late imperial China"”.
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The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898
The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898 Cheng Yang Today’s enormous global disparities in national average income levels are overwhelmingly a product of differential rates of economic growth over the last 200 years. China was the world’s most developed economy at the beginning …
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Written gardens revisited: Gender and women’s garden poetry in late Imperial China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
… history, the diversity of local environments in China, I try to dispose of the (sometimes inadvertent) implication that these diverse locales were discrete. By highlighting the interconnectedness that was created by the movement of people, this dissertation brings out the social spaces created …
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Missionaries, reformers, and the beginnings of western music in late imperial China (1839-1911)
… reformers and the beginnings of Western music in late imperial China (1842-1911). It focuses on examining how Christian missionaries and Chinese reformers, in the process of advancing their goals, made use of aspects of Western musical culture and how their actions helped facilitate the …
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Remaking early poetic tradition: publication and reception of ancient-style poetry anthologies in late imperial China
… were shaped by and shaped literary tradition in late imperial China from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Specifically, by combining approaches from the fields of literary studies, book history, and digital humanities, this dissertation focuses on the practices of compiling, …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… which acculturated and dispersed Sino-Muslims in late imperial China came to develop a sense of collectivity through participating in a public culture they shared with other Chinese people from the 1600s to the 1900s. During the late imperial period, increasing mobility, deepening …
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昙阳子信仰的建立兼论晚明文人宗教的特点 = BUILDING THE CULT OF TANYANGZI: A DISCUSSION OF LITERATI RELIGION IN LATE MING DYNASTY
EXTENSIVE ACADEMIC RESEARCH ON RELIGION IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN, BUT SCHOLARS HAVE TENDED TO FOCUS MAINLY ON MAINSTREAM RELIGIONS AND SOME RELIGIOUS SECTS. THE LACK OF ATTENTION GIVEN TO CULTS OF THE LITERATI MAY HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF THE DISPERSION OF MATERIALS. THE CASE OF …
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Envisioning Morality in Times of Dynastic Change
… morality became increasingly remarkable during late imperial China, especially at the junctures of dynastic change. This thesis explores the problem of the construction of morality, and I focus on two plays in which the idea of morality is presented in complicated ways: the late Yuan play Pipa …
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Women and marriage in China during the period of disunion
… and familial freedom than their counterparts in late imperial China. Like her Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) predecessor, she was, to certain extent, free to express her emotional affection, to voice her preference in selecting a spouse, to initiate a divorce, and to remarry after she was widowed. More …
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Bowu and the Natural World in the Formation of Modern China
… by historians of science and technology in China as ‘broad learnings’ and which refers to knowledge with a great diversity of origins across Chinese history. Arguing for its enduring relevance in knowledge-making of the natural world in China, this thesis presents a first step in …
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Cult of laughter: Emotional refuge, commercial publishing, and humor culture in late Ming China (1573-1644)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… interwoven with religion and politics throughout late imperial China. The main objective of this dissertation is to examine the controversial yet overlooked villainess-warriors as a literary subgenre and to showcase the interaction of gender dynamics and popular theatre in the Qing dynasty. This …
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Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949
In late imperial China the forensic examination of dead bodies in homicide cases was a sophisticated field of technical practice which developed through the collaboration of coroners, legal specialists, and literati-officials. After the fall of the Qing empire (1644-1911), successive governments of …
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
<p>Although the history of China's contact with Christianity can be traced back much further, it is the "third wave" of contact initiated by the Jesuit missionaries in the second half of the sixteenth century that developed into a multi-faceted communication and interaction between the Catholic …
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Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: public culture, identities, and law, 1644—1911
… How were those organizations managed and regulated? How did they identify themselves in the Qing Empire? And what was the role of religious distinction in their identity? This thesis reveals that, for various practical purposes, Chinese Muslims in the Qing formed different publics based on a …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… dissertation argues that the Manchu conquest of China in the mid-seventeenth century transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences in the early modern period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from …