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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Xiamen's pursuit of World Heritage Site designation from UNESCO stimulated considerable interest in the city's Christian past. History enthusiasts, both Christian and non-Christian, devoted themselves to reinterpreting the legacy of missionaries and challenged official narratives of Christianity's troubled associations with Western imperialism. In this book, Jifeng Liu documents the tension that has inevitably emerged between the established official history and these popular efforts.This volume elucidates the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a Chinese city profoundly influenced by Western missionaries. Drawing on extensive interviews, locally produced histories, and observations of historical celebrations, Liu provides an intimate portrait of the people who navigate ideological issues to reconstruct a Christian past, reproduce religious histories, and redefine local power structures in the shadow of the state. Liu makes a compelling argument that a Christian past is being constructed that combines official frameworks, unofficial practices, and nostalgia into social memory, a realm of dynamic negotiation that is neither dominated by the authoritarian state nor characterized by popular resistance. In this way, Negotiating the Christian Past in China illustrates the complexities of memory and missions in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.This groundbreaking study assumes a perspective of globalization and localization, in both the past and the present, to better understand Chinese Christianity in a local, national, and global context. It will be welcomed by scholars of religious studies and world Christianity, and by those interested in the church-state relationship in China.

Christianity --- Missions --- Social aspects --- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China) --- Church history. --- Asian Christianity. --- Chinese Christianity. --- Chinese politics. --- Chinese religion. --- Church-state relations. --- Memory. --- Missions. --- Xiamen. --- missionaries. --- nostalgia.

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Confucianism --- Confucius --- 550 B.C. --- the Chou Dynasty --- Confucian concepts --- the Analects --- morality --- Li --- Jen --- filial piety --- the role of women --- Chinese politics --- Chinese society --- Confucian thought --- Mencius --- Xunzi --- Japan --- Korea --- Vietnam --- Chinese Americans --- East Asia

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It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened-and why-during the 1950's. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.

HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- History. --- S24/0500 --- Tibet--History (incl. Relations with China and England) --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History. --- 1950s. --- archival. --- beijing. --- chinese communists. --- chinese government. --- chinese history. --- chinese politics. --- cold war. --- communist party. --- contemporary. --- dalai lama. --- illustrated. --- interviews. --- korean war. --- midcentury. --- modern world. --- peoples liberation army. --- political. --- politics. --- public policy. --- sino soviet alliance. --- socioeconomic reform. --- tibet. --- tibetan history. --- volume 2.

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In this cogent and insightful reading of China's twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life-one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China's social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a stance familiar to republics worldwide. This shift in political posture was accompanied by considerable trepidation as well as excitement. Profiling three prominent political actors of the time-suffragist Tang Qunying, diplomat Lu Zhengxiang, and revolutionary Sun Yatsen-Strand demonstrates how a sea change in political performance left leaders dependent on popular support and citizens enmeshed in a political process productive of both authority and dissent.

Political activists --- Political oratory --- Political leadership --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Political culture --- History --- Sun, Yat-sen, --- Tang, Qunying, --- Lu, Zhenxiang, --- China --- Politics and government --- activism. --- chinese history. --- chinese politics. --- chinese revolution. --- chinese women. --- citizens. --- class. --- diplomacy. --- diplomat. --- east asian history. --- feminism. --- history. --- inequality. --- lu zhengxiang. --- modernity. --- national language. --- nonfiction. --- political culture. --- political history. --- political performance. --- politics. --- poverty. --- rebellion. --- republican china. --- revolution. --- revolutionary. --- revolutions. --- right to vote. --- social change. --- suffragist. --- sun yatsen. --- tang qunying. --- womens rights.

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The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic "Great Han" and corresponding "real China" through pseudotraditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Analyzing the movement's ideas and practices, this book argues that the vision of a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society is in fact a fantasy constructed in response to the challenging realities of the present. Yet this national imaginary is reproduced precisely through its own perpetual elusiveness. The Great Han is a pioneering analysis of Han identity, nationalism, and social movements in a rapidly changing China.

Costume --- Nationalism --- Racism --- Race --- Ethnicity --- Politics and culture --- S02/0200 --- S11/1200 --- Physical anthropology --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Fancy dress --- Motion pictures --- Opera --- Stage costume --- Theater --- Theatrical costume --- Decorative arts --- Clothing and dress --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- History --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- Political aspects --- Costume. --- Ethnicity. --- Ethnische Identität. --- Nationalism. --- Nationalismus. --- Politics and culture. --- Race. --- Racism. --- Rassismus. --- Soziale Bewegung. --- 2000-2099. --- China. --- 2000s. --- 2001. --- activism. --- anti foreign. --- chinese politics. --- cities. --- confucian ritual. --- digital space. --- digital world. --- ethics. --- ethnic dress. --- ethnographic study. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- foreign sentiment. --- han clothing movement. --- nationalism. --- neotraditionalist. --- online. --- political activism. --- political movement. --- racial nationalist. --- social movements. --- social science. --- social studies. --- urban. --- utopian. --- xenophobic.