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The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans-even students and specialists of this era-have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History, Paul A. Cohen opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China's recent history. He connects the story to each of the major traumas of the last century, tracing its versatility as a source of inspiration and hope and elegantly exploring, on a more general level, why such stories often remain sealed up within a culture, unknown to outsiders. Labeling this phenomenon "insider cultural knowledge," Cohen investigates the relationship between past story and present reality. He inquires why at certain moments in their collective lives peoples are especially drawn to narratives from the distant past that resonate strongly with their current circumstances, and why the Chinese have returned over and over to a story from twenty-five centuries ago. In this imaginative stitching of story to history, Cohen reveals how the shared narratives of a community help to define its culture and illuminate its history.
HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Goujian, --- Kou-chien, --- 勾践, --- 勾踐, --- China --- History --- S04/0400 --- S04/0900 --- S11/0540 --- S16/0475 --- China: History--General works: China --- China: History--People's Republic: general --- China: Social sciences--The Chinese model --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends) --- 20th century chinese history. --- 5th century chinese history. --- antiquity. --- bai hua. --- chiang kai shek. --- china. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- collective memory. --- crisis and response. --- cross cultural perspectives. --- cultural narratives. --- cultural studies. --- folklore. --- folktales. --- history. --- hope. --- insider cultural knowledge. --- inspiration. --- king goujian. --- late qing years. --- national humiliation. --- nobility. --- past story. --- political allegory. --- political. --- present reality. --- privatizing china. --- republican years. --- royalty. --- taiwan. --- woxin changdan fever. --- xiao jun.
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What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910's and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative-and continually mischaracterized-products, the journal Funü shibao (The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years of China's first Republic. Redeeming both the value of the medium and the significance of the era, she demonstrates the extent to which the commercial press channeled and helped constitute key epistemic and gender trends in China's revolutionary twentieth century. The book develops a cross-genre and inter-media method for reading the periodical press and gaining access to the complexities of the past. Drawing on the full materiality of the medium, Judge reads cover art, photographs, advertisements, and poetry, editorials, essays, and readers' columns in conjunction with and against one another, as well as in their broader print, historical and global contexts. This yields insights into fundamental tensions that governed both the journal and the early Republic. It also highlights processes central to the arc of twentieth-century knowledge culture and social change: the valorization and scientization of the notion of "experience," the public actualization of "Republican Ladies," and the amalgamation of "Chinese medicine" and scientific biomedicine. It further revives the journal's editors, authors, medical experts, artists, and, most notably, its little known female contributors. Republican Lens captures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century.
Periodicals --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Journals (Periodicals) --- Magazines --- Library materials --- Mass media --- Serial publications --- Newspapers --- Press --- Publishing --- History --- Social conditions --- China --- 20th century asian history. --- 20th century chinese history. --- china. --- chinese revolution. --- commercial culture. --- commercial press. --- gender studies. --- gender trends. --- government and governing. --- historical. --- history. --- journal funu shibao. --- last imperial dynasty. --- modernization of china. --- national unity. --- nationalism. --- new national government. --- political power. --- qing dynasty. --- republic of china. --- republicanism. --- retrospective. --- revolution of 1911. --- revolution. --- revolutionaries. --- social change. --- womens eastern times. --- wuchang uprising. --- xinhai revolution.
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This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.
Working class --- Demonstrations --- Travailleurs --- Manifestations --- S11/0830 --- S10/0330 --- China: Social sciences--Labour conditions and trade unions: since 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Employment --- Demonstrations. --- Demonstrations - China - Guangdong Sheng. --- Demonstrations - China - Liaoning Sheng. --- Working class - China - Guangdong Sheng. --- Working class - China - Liaoning Sheng. --- Working class. --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Marches (Demonstrations) --- Political demonstrations --- Political marches --- Political rallies --- Public demonstrations --- Rallies (Demonstrations) --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment --- Collective behavior --- Crowds --- Public meetings --- Riots --- Social classes --- Labor --- E-books --- Working class - China - Guangdong Sheng --- Working class - China - Liaoning Sheng --- Demonstrations - China - Guangdong Sheng --- Demonstrations - China - Liaoning Sheng --- 20th century chinese history. --- 21st century chinese history. --- asian politics. --- capitalism. --- china. --- chinese apparel. --- chinese household appliances. --- chinese labor politics. --- chinese machinery. --- chinese manufacturing. --- chinese politics. --- chinese rustbelt. --- chinese sunbelt. --- chinese textile. --- dagong. --- danwei. --- ethnography. --- factory workers. --- factory. --- global sweatshops. --- historical. --- labor politics. --- labor struggle. --- labor unrest. --- legal authoritarianism. --- legal system. --- politics. --- revolution. --- socialism. --- state socialism. --- working class.
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In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society--were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of armies, the marching of protesters, the pontificating of intellectual, and the opening and closing of factories could change their lives. David Strand offers a penetrating view of the old walled capital of Beijing during these years by examining how the residents coped with the changes wrought by itinerant soldiers and politicians and by the accelerating movement of ideas, capital, and technology. By looking at the political experiences of ordinary citizens, including rickshaw pullers, policemen, trade unionists, and Buddhist monks, Strand provides fascinating insights into how deeply these forces were felt. The resulting portrait of early twentieth-century Chinese urban society stresses the growing political sophistication of ordinary people educated by mass movements, group politics, and participation in a shared, urban culture that mixed opera and demonstrations, newspaper reading and teahouse socializing. Surprisingly, in the course of absorbing new ways of living, working, and doing politics, much of the old society was preserved--everything seemed to change and yet little of value was discarded. Through tumultuous times, Beijing rose from a base of local and popular politics to form a bridge linking a traditional world of guilds and gentry elites with the contemporary world of corporatism and cadres.
NON-CLASSIFIABLE. --- Beijing (China) --- Beijing Shi (China) --- Begejing (China) --- Begejing Qota (China) --- Bėėzhin (China) --- Бээжин (China) --- Peiping (China) --- Peping (China) --- Pekin (China) --- Pei-ching shih (China) --- Pei-pʻing shih (China) --- Peking (China) --- Pukkyŏng (China) --- Beijing Municipality (China) --- Bei Jing Shi (China) --- Pei-ching (China) --- Pechino (China) --- Pequim (China) --- Peiping Municipal Administrative Area (China) --- Peiping Municipality (China) --- Peking Municipality (China) --- Bījīn (China) --- Dadu (China) --- Daidu (China) --- 北京 (China) --- Beiping Tebieshi zheng fu --- Beiping Shi zheng fu --- Beiping Shi di fang wei chi hui --- Beijing di fang wei chi hui --- Beijing Tebieshi zheng fu --- Beijing Tebieshi gong shu --- Beijing Shi ren min zheng fu --- Beijing Shi ren min wei yuan hui --- Beijing Shi ge ming wei yuan hui --- Politics and government. --- Social life and customs. --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- 20th century chinese history. --- aggression. --- army. --- asian history. --- beijing. --- buddhism. --- buddhist monks. --- china. --- chinese history. --- civil peace. --- corporatism. --- factory. --- group politics. --- guangzhou. --- imperialism. --- mass media. --- mass movements. --- military. --- modern chinese society. --- national sovereignty. --- newspapers. --- policemen. --- political science. --- politics. --- popular sovereignty. --- protest. --- revolution. --- rickshaw pullers. --- shanghai. --- social peace. --- teahouse socializing. --- technology. --- trade unions. --- upheaval. --- urban culture. --- urban mentality. --- urban. --- war.
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