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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Republican China"”.
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Commodifying and Consuming Endocrine Drugs in Republican China (1920s–1940s)
… the introduction of hormone pharmaceuticals into China during the early twentieth century, these substances became objects of fascination for a growing urban elite class. Drawing from newspapers, medical journals, and advertisements, this article examines the unique trajectories of hormone …
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Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican China
… a catalyst for change among Buddhists in modern China. Through examining major publication institutions, publishing projects, and their managers and contributors from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, I show that the expansion of the scope and variety of printed works, as well as new the …
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From the pages of three ladies : Canadian women missionaries in Republican China
… as United Church of Canada missionaries in China in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing principally on their diaries and letters, the thesis examines the China experiences and impressions of Margaret Helen Brown (1887-1978) who spent 39 years in China as an educator and editor, …
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Syncretic and engaged Buddhist thought in early republican China: Tang Dayuan’s vision (1910-1930s)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Seminal modernity: masturbation and the politics of abstinence in early Republican China (1912-1937)
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-07-19 at 09:56.
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Confronting the “European War” in Early Republican China: ROC’s Constitutional Process and the First World War
… study of the First World War (WWI), research on China’s experiences in WWI is still largely limited to the discussion of several discrete topics: the war participation debate, the Chinese Labour Corps, and the May Fourth Movement. This dissertation argues that the First World War was a …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… of the socio-historical background of Pai's Republican China and Williams's American South, a general analysis of previous scholarship on Pai and Williams's works follows. The analysis of the selected works focuses on the stylistic and symbolic features in Pai and Williams's …
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The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
For thousands of years, libraries in China were treated as book repositories and remained closed to the public. It was not until the end of Imperial China and the establishment of a Republican China (1911) that the first public libraries became available. The Republic of China Era (1912-1949) …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
The (re)construction of female identity in modern China has attracted much academic attention in recent years. While these studies usually highlight such key terms as “women” (<italic>fun├â┬╝</italic> 妇女 or <italic>n├â┬╝xing</italic> 女性) “women's rights” (<italic>n├â┬╝quan</italic> 女權), “new women” …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
… modern discipline of archaeology developed in China, as it had elsewhere in the world, in tandem with modern nationalism. Many intellectuals in Republican China hoped that archaeology would prove a useful tool in their efforts to construct a new national history, one that did away with myths …
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Anthropology in the People's Republic of China: 1945-1957
… is given to the research which was undertaken in China during the first decade of Communist rule. The years from 1949 to 1957 were chosen because this time span serves as an exemplary and workable period through which a full cycle of government policy changed and adapted to the needs of the new …
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“Obstructed embrace”: The ID card institution in Shanghai, 1945-1949
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Inheritance, Family Structure, and Economic Development in the Lower Yangzi Region, c.1650-1950
… This dissertation uses historical data from China’s economic core, the Lower Yangzi Region, to analyse the relationships between inheritance practices, social structure, and economic development between 1650 and 1950. It describes this set of relationships as the “inheritance complex” and …
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… century internal and external crises in China began a process in which the Post Office played an instrumental role in transforming the presiding state of an agrarian empire into a centralizing nation-state. In the midst of that transformation, the Post Office contributed to the shift of …