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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Modern Chinese History"”.
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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 …
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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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The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949
… its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949, a period characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political decentralization. During this period, foreign guns, along with their Chinese imitations, flooded society. In response to the …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… examines the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates over the …
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… explores the myriad ways the Imperial/Chinese Post Office contributed to the formation of the modern Chinese state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular, this is a study of how the nineteenth and twentieth century internal and external crises in China began a …
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The rooted state: Plants and power in the making of modern China’s Xikang Province
… plants and power as its primary lens on the history of Chinese state-building in the Kham region of eastern Tibet during the early twentieth century. Farming was central to the way nationalist discourse constructed the imagined community of the Chinese nation, and it was simultaneously a …
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Tuning In: Nationalist Radio in China, 1928–1937
… before 1949. As radio was a global medium, a history of one without the other would be incomplete. The third aim of this dissertation is to decentre Shanghai in the study of Chinese radio history. To this end, it introduces the history of the Central Broadcasting Station, i.e., Nationalist …