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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"modern China"”.
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Jokes on the Four Books: Cultural criticism in early modern China
Jokes were considered low and insignificant in traditional Chinese literature. Ssu-shu hsiao is witty and provocative, different from other conventional and contemporary jestbooks for its parodic relationship with the Four Books, which were the core-texts of Neo-Confucianism and civil service …
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Individualism and Sport in Modern China Beyond the Myth of Collectivism
… relationship between individualism and sport in China is discussed and implications for theory and practice as well as for future study are indicated."
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… 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 process in which the Post Office played an instrumental …
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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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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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War Heroes: Constructing the Soldier and the State in Modern China, 1924-1945
<p>The frequency of wars in modern China between 1924 and 1945 was accompanied by the phenomenon that the soldier figure played an important ideological role in state rhetoric and social discussions. Different political, social and cultural forces, such as Jiang Jieshi (1887-1975)’s Nationalist …
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Physicians, pharmacists, and merchants: Professionalization of medicine in early modern China, 1500-1900
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… formation and differentiation in Xiangxi, China. A range of scholars have demonstrated that the modern novel is one of the main tools for propagating the practices and ideologies of standardized language under nationalism. In this dissertation I examine the nature of the nationalist …
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On the Changes and Influences of the Absolute Truth of Neo-Confucianism in Pre-Modern China
… of the absolute truth of Neo-Confucianism in pre-modern China. First of all, Li of Neo-Confucianism attempted to replace the highest divine of Tian/Shangdi but actually became the amalgamation with the divine and the absolute truth. Through the resistance against Li by Chinese thinkers, the …
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Visualising Lung Disease in Modern China: Body, Nation, and Environment from the Nanjing Decade to the Cultural Revolution
… causes of death and disease in twentieth-century China. This thesis analyses lung disease in public health images from the advent of national public health services in the Republic of China in the 1920s, to the official recognition of the People’s Republic of China in intergovernmental health work …
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Conservative social attitudes in modern China : a study exemplified by cases in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Hong Kong, 1917-1932
The modernization of China is a perpetual problem confronting Chinese politicians and intellectuals alike. This problem involves the question of defining and implementing changes in Chinese politics, economy and society. Because of the diversity and disparity of these changes, modernization is not …
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Conservative social attitudes in modern China : a study exemplified by cases in Shanghai, Tientsin, and Hong Kong, 1917-1932
The modernization of China is a perpetual problem confronting Chinese politicians and intellectuals alike. This problem involves the question of defining and implementing changes in Chinese politics, economy and society. Because of the diversity and disparity of these changes, modernization is not …
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A public choice analysis of developing constitutional review in contemporary China
… is no constitutional review in contemporary China. This dissertation uses the methodology of public choice theory to examine the feasibility of developing constitutional review in modern China.
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The Chinese colonization of Tongking, first century AD to sixth century AD
… which was based in the Kuangtung region of modern China and extended south to include Tongking in northern Vietnam. After Wu-ti's conquest, Nan-yüeh was divided into 9 commanderies, one of which - Chiao-chih - was to administer Tongking. This was the beginning of a political and cultural in …
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The Chinese colonization of Tongking, first century AD to sixth century AD
… which was based in the Kuangtung region of modern China and extended south to include Tongking in northern Vietnam. After Wu-ti's conquest, Nan-yüeh was divided into 9 commanderies, one of which - Chiao-chih - was to administer Tongking. This was the beginning of a political and cultural in …
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Nanjing Library: A Study of Intangible Contents of Architecture
… between traditional Chinese architecture and modernization patterned after the West. It is an attempt to respond to the question: how can these two different cultural and architectural issues be successfully balanced to support architectural environment in modern China? Instead of using …
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Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican China
… as 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 …
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The embodiment and enactment of shen 神 in the Huangdi neijing 《黃帝內經》 by contemporary healers (yi 醫)
The modern history of medicine in China is disposed to position Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a feudal tradition if not an afterthought. If the republicans of modern China had their way, Traditional Chinese Medicine would have been relegated to the various curios in museums (Hsu 2008; Lei …
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