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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Qing Dynasty"”.
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… engravings, painters and calligraphers of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) deployed prodigious efforts to interpret them in different media in pursuit of aesthetic originality. This stylistic revolution, later termed beixue, or the “stele tradition,” advocates the engraved calligraphy on early …
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Pastoralism, Agriculture, and Stress: A Comparative Analysis of Two 19th Century Qing Dynasty Populations
… two historic 19th century populations from the Qing Empire (1644 – 1912) of China. Samples included crania from a mobile and relatively diffuse pastoralist population from Urga, Mongolia (n=40) and crania from a group of southern Chinese laborers (n=40) interred in Karluk, Alaska who represent a …
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On Quanzhen Daoism and the Longmen Lineage: An Institutional History of Monasteries, Lineages, and Ordinations
… the Longmen lineage in particular, during the Qing dynasty in China from an institutional perspective. By critically analyzing monasteries, lineages, and texts, this study sheds light on why the notion of lineage is crucial for understanding Qing Daoism. Furthermore, this study challenges the …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… by the growth and decline of Yangzhou in the Qing dynasty. Chapter 1 is devoted to a survey of the city's earlier history up to the beginning of the Qing dynasty, and illustrates the historical dependence of the city on geo-political factors related to the nature of imperial power. In Chapter …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… by the growth and decline of Yangzhou in the Qing dynasty. Chapter 1 is devoted to a survey of the city's earlier history up to the beginning of the Qing dynasty, and illustrates the historical dependence of the city on geo-political factors related to the nature of imperial power. In Chapter …
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"Since Time Immemorial": China's Historical Claim in the South China Sea
… of time examined is from 1644 to 2013; from the Qing Dynasty to the present.
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The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind
… two periods of xenophobia and stagnation, late Qing dynasty China, and the PRC under Mao, with a genuine market place of ideas, Shanghai and the other foreign treaty ports in the period 1849 to 1949, and explain how this period of cosmopolitan ferment has had beneficial effects on China today. …
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Envisioning Morality in Times of Dynastic Change
… Lute) which primarily circulated during Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the early Qing play Taohua shan µíâΦè▒µëç: The Peach Blossom Fan) which deals with the late Ming period. In this thesis, I primarily treat these two plays as texts, and I try to answer how ideas of morality are constructed in …
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Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang
… implemented, the changing strategies that the Qing Empire employed to govern Xinjiang from 1759, when this area was annexed into the empire, to 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed. Focusing on the changes in the applicability of the two legal systems--Qing state law and indigenous Islamic …
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The investigation into the development of glass as an expressive medium in China through direct contact with Western methods of making, decoration and forming
… history of glassmaking from 1696 to 1795 in the Qing dynasty with Western influences; 2) the analysis of Contemporary Chinese studio/academic glass within the imported UK model; 3) the development of my personal glass practice within this matrix. Practical work is of two components: reproductions …
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The Impact of Human Capital and Social Capital on Economic Growth in China
… a commercial group originating from the Ming or Qing dynasty is used as a proxy for the quality of social capital. Zhejiang has two commercial groups ranked in the top 10 in China. Zhejiang’s more entrepreneurial culture and its increasing proportion of population who are CEOs of private …
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Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)
… Bank (DAB) during the last two decades of the Qing dynasty and the first years of the Chinese republic, this dissertation shows how the interaction between foreign bankers and Chinese officials, bankers and entrepreneurs led to the rapid internationalisation of Chinese finance, both in terms of …
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… Beijing theatre during the second half of the Qing dynasty (1774-1911) when miscellaneous local performing arts (Flowery operas) flourished in the city. The visual-audio effect of martial performance, featuring acrobatic fighting scenes and boisterous percussions influenced by Flowery operas, …
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
… and intersectional interpretative framework: Qing Dynasty anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen’s gendering category of nannü; Ella Shohat’s notion of ‘subterranean feminisms’ operating in contexts outside Euro-America; and the ‘alternative’ feminist travelling and translation theory proposed by Min …
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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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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from northeast Asia—was experienced first-hand by several Jesuit missionaries proselytising in China. During the unstable interregnum, Jesuits sought patronage from …
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China’s Last Warlord: Gao Gang and The Northeast People’s Government (1948-1954)
… realm of China proper since the end of the Qing Dynasty, was quickly absorbed and transformed by the Chinese Communists. This process was spearheaded by Gao Gang, the leader of the Northeast People’s Government (1948-1954) and who by the Korean War reached his pinnacle of personal power and …
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