Approaches to Modern Chinese History

History

Feuerwerker, Albert

Asia

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Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History (East Asian Monographs Ser. : No. 11)

Cheng, S.

Harvard University Asia Center

Chinese Economy Ca. 1870-1911 (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies : No. 5)

Business & Money

Economics

Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

<p><div>Popular rebellion in China was usually the undertaking of the mostly illiterate lower classes, sometimes inspired or assisted by a handful of disaffected intellectuals. The written record of these events is, on the other hand, overwhelmingly the product of literate men of power and wealth who suppressed these challenges to their authority and status. Added to this imbalance in the written record, an inverse problem has emerged in twentieth-century characterizations by historians in the People's Republic of China. Communist historiography classifies these events as peasant uprisings (<i>nung-min chi'i-i</i>, literally "righteous uprisings of the peasantry") in an attempt to construct a new, popular, and progressive past.</div> <div>Charting a course between these two modes, <i>Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century China</i> discusses domestic disorder with more nuance, considering the sources of social dissidence, the varieties of domestic rebellion, the responses of the state and society to such uprisings, and the consequences of rebellion and suppression for a dynasty already shaken by foreign invasion. Emphasizing the number and variety of these uprisings, Feuerwerker places them within a hierarchy of dissidence that distinguishes between 1) spontaneous, usually small-scale and local antiofficial or antilandlord actions, 2) interlineage and communal "feuds", 3) the religion and secular "underworld", 4) banditry, 5) rebellion, and 6) revolution. By distinguishing their contexts and causes, Feuerwerker describes and analyzes as one broad social phenomenon a remarkable number and variety of unsuccessful challenges to the Manchu regime.</div></p>

Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century China (Volume 21) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

Center for Chinese Studies/University of Michigan

State and Society in Eighteenth-Century China: The Ch'ing Empire in Its Glory (Volume 27) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

<p><div>The foreign establishment in early republican china had many facets: territory people, rights established by treaty or unilaterally asserted, armed force, diplomacy, religion, commerce, journalism, freebooting adventure, racial attitudes. <i>Foreign Establishment in China in the Early Twentieth Century</i> describes the dimensions of each of the principle guises in which the foreigner impinged upon the polity, economy, society, and mind of China. [1]</div></p>

The Foreign Establishment in China in the Early Twentieth Century (Volume 29) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

<p><div>Albert Feuerwerker fashioned a distinguished legacy as a scholar of Chinese history. His publications on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese economy often became the starting point for any further work and staples for graduate training in modern Chinese history.</div> <div><i>Studies in the Economic History of Late Imperial China</i> gathers seven foundational writings in one place for the first time, and adds one new piece on handicrafts in the sixteenth century to the list. Included is Feuerwerker's "Handicraft and Manufactured Cotton Textils in China, 1871-1910," which immediately after its publication in 1970 became the standard for research and argument about economic change in the late Qing. In this classic essay, Feuerwerker addresses the scarcity of quantitative data on the textiles industry in this time period, which prevented historians from interpreting qualitative sources. Along with a descriptive analysis, he presents several quantitative alternatives and weighs them to find which best protrays the fortunes of cotton textile handicrafts during the last four centuries of the Qing.</div> <div>Taken together, the chapters in <i>Studies in the Economic History</i> represent a cross-section of the enormous contributions Feuerwerker made to China scholarship.</div></p>

Studies in the Economic History of Late Imperial China: Handicraft, Modern Industry, and the State (Volume 70) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

<p>An economic history of China's last imperial dynasty and through the first half of the 20th century, originally published in The Cambridge History of China, v.11 and v.12, 1980 and 1983 respectively. Feuerwerker (U. of Michigan) summarizes the states of agriculture and industry in the Ch'ing Empire, and economic trends in the Republic, including fo</p>

The Chinese Economy, 1870–1949 (Volume 71) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

Chinese Communist Studies Of Modern Chinese History

Literature & Fiction

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