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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Qing China"”.
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Legal justice, medical authority, and madness in Qing China
This dissertation examines how the Qing state governed madness at the intersection of law and medicine. It maps the trajectory of the interface of law and medicine in the judicial practice involving homicides and madness. Between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, this legal-medical …
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Colonialism in contention: the 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots in Qing China
… of the riots, a rigid Sino-France dichotomy and China-centered approach seem to have been uncritically applied. Based upon voluminous multi-lingual primary sources housed in the Shanghai Municipal Archive and the Shanghai Library, this study, first and foremost, suggests that the 1874 and 1898 …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… women’s charitable activities in the late Qing period. Founding and operating private organizations or cooperating with the Qing government, the mercantile literati played a major role in public charity. The scope and types of charity women were involved, however, changed after 1898. By …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
This dissertation analyses the discursive process through which British famine relief advocates weighed competing claims to humanitarian assistance from famine-affected communities in different regions of the world in the 1870s: namely, during the famines in Bihar (1873–1874), Asia Minor …
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Protestant missions in late Qing China: George Leslie Mackay's proselytization strategies in Taiwan, 1872-1895
The student, Grace Chang, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-22 at 14:46.
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Staging modern statehood: world exhibitions and the rhetoric of publishing in late Qing China, 1851-1910
… dissertation examines how the objective of the Qing government to stage its modern statehood through participating in the world exhibitions and hosting the Nanyang Industrial Exposition of 1910, the first national / international exhibition of China, was challenged and transformed by various …
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Professional medicine and race: Medical missionaries in Qing China and global history of modern medicine, 1807-1912
The student, Yun Young Hur, accepted the attached license on 2019-11-27 at 15:29.
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… explores the issues of language and power in the Qing Empire’s (1644-1911) northeastern borderlands within the larger context of political reforms in late Qing China between 1890 and 1911. To the present, much research on the history of language in late Qing China continues to fall within the …
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… Confucian scholarship and artistic practice in China. Scholars used these inscriptions to establish meanings of Confucian classics, verify recorded historical events, and reconstruct lost sites of cultural legacy. This methodological trend, known as kaozheng, or Evidential Scholarship, stresses …
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Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850
… families of the Astronomical Bureau in Qing China. The research found several patterns and strategies that these hereditary mathematician families exhibited during their long careers at the Astronomical Bureau. It found that family networks remained the most important channel that the …
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An Analysis of Duan Yucai’s Theory of Shengyi tongyuan in his Annotations to the Shuowen jiezi
My dissertation studies the work of an eminent Qing dynasty (1644–1912) philologist Duan Yucai 段玉裁 (1735–1815). Duan is renowned for his annotations to the Shuowen jiezi 說文解字 (Explaining Simple Graphs and Analysing Compound Characters), titled the Shuowen jiezi zhu 說文解字注 (Annotations to the …
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Remaking early poetic tradition: publication and reception of ancient-style poetry anthologies in late imperial China
… 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, publishing, and …
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Toward an Extraordinary Everyday: Li Yu's (1611-1680) Vision, Writing, and Practice
… of the burgeoning market economy of early Qing China to engineer and market a new experience of the everyday. The world in which Li Yu's cultural products were best sellers was rife with novelty. The Ming dynasty had collapsed in 1644, yet many of its defining features remained: urban …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… 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 commercialization, and …
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Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: public culture, identities, and law, 1644—1911
… identities, and law of Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire (1644-1911). It goes beyond current scholarship which focuses on official and elite narratives of Chinese Muslims, and tries to explore the public culture in which ordinary Chinese Muslims participated in their daily life during the Qing …
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Do Globalization and China’s WTO Accession Affect Social Spending in Its Eleven Neighboring Countries? An Empirical Study of the China Shock
… investigates whether globalization and China’s WTO accession in 2001 have any impact on government expenditure to social security transfers and human capital of its eleven neighboring countries--Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, …