From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise

F. Assandri, Dora Ma``rtins

Amsterdam University Press, 2009 - History - 158 pages

Contributors to this insightful volume on topics in Chinese history from the past 1,400 years highlight the complexity at hand inside and outside modern China, while exploring issues related to political and social dynamics, economic structures, modernization, identity building, and Chinese interaction with the outside world. The articles presented here provide new insight on events as broad-ranging as the interreligious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the Chinese display at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, China's rise, and its current Internet regulation, making this highly interdisciplinary collection an important contribution to current scholarship on the nation of China.

Contents

• Introduction: 9
• An Introduction to Daoxuans Ji gujin Fo Dao lunheng: 15
• 2 Social Crises and Political Reform during the Jiaqing Reign of Qing China 17961810s: 33
• Faces of Modernization in the Contact Zone: 53
• 4 Christianity and StateBuilding in Republican Chaozhou South China: 67
• 5 The Structure of Salt Distribution in Taiwan 18951945: 89
• Chinese Indentured Labor in World War One France and the SinoFrench Connection: 111
• Some Considerations: 121
• Censorship Profitability and Responsibility: 141
• List of Contributors: 153
• Index: 155

About the author

Friedrike Assandri is research associate in the Department of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg and at the Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Its Application in Shanghai. Dora Martins is coordinator at the Centre for Politics and International Relations at the Portuguese Institute of Sinology.

Contributors include:

Dora Martins

Coordinator of the Centre of Politics and International Relations

Portuguese Institute of Sinology, Lisbon, Portugal

Friederike Assandri

Research Associate

Department of Sinology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and its application ECNU, Shanghai, China

Jinqiu Zhao

Associate Professor

Communication University of China, Beijing, China

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Professor

Department of History, Pace University, New York, USA

Ooi Yuki

Research Fellow

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Paul Bailey

Professor of Modern Chinese History

School of History, Classics and Archeology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Tsu-yu Chen

Research Fellow

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wensheng Wang

Assistant Professor

Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA

Bibliographic information

• Title: From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise; Volume 7 of ICAS publication series. 7; Volume 7 of ICAS publications series. Edited volumes
• Editors: F. Assandri, Dora Ma``rtins
• Contributor: F. Assandri
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 905356795X, 9789053567951
• Length: 158 pages
• Subjects: History / Asia / China