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Author Hammond, Kenneth J.

Title The Human Tradition in Modern China.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages).
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Series The Human Tradition around the World series
Human tradition around the world.
Contents The Human Tradition around the World Series Editors: William H. Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE -- Li Shizhen: Early Modern Scientist; Further Reading; CHAPTER TWO -- Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in Late Imperial China; The Pleasure Quarters of Late Imperial China; The Chinese Courtesan; Girls in Gaily Painted Boats; Bohemian Beauty; Flowers and Flute: The Courtesan Painter; Amazon and Archer; In the Literati's Eyes; Culture and Commerce; The Gentlewomen's Gaze; Emancipation, Power, and Politics.
The Female Knight-ErrantParadoxes; Further Reading; Notes; CHAPTER THREE -- Zou Boqi on Vision and Photography in Nineteenth-Century China; Zou Boqi's Life and Intellectual Outlook; The Rise of Photography; Camera Vision in Nineteenth-Century China; A New Construction of Vision; A Chinese History of Photography; Zou Boqi and Modernity; Conclusion; Further Reading; Notes; CHAPTER FOUR -- Ho Kai: A Chinese Reformer in Colonial Hong Kong; Ho Kai's Colonial Context; Colonial Hong Kong and Chinese Nationalism; Ho Kai and the Chinese Reform Movement.
The Role of the West: Hong Kong as a Model for ChinaConflicting Interests: Ho Kai the Capitalist; The Tram Boycott of 1912-1913 and Ho Kai's Forced Retirement; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER FIVE -- Der Ling: Manchu Princess, Cultural Advisor, and Author; Childhood (1884-1894); Living Overseas (1895-1902); Two Years in the Forbidden City (1903-1905); Leaving the Palace and After; Further Reading; Notes; CHAPTER SIX -- Li Chenggan: Patriot, Populist, and Factory Patriarch; Further Reading; Notes; CHAPTER SEVEN -- The Beijing University Students in the May Fourth Era: A Collective Biography.
An Event and a TraditionThe Place; Testing In; Living; Bohemian Attitudes; Teaching and Learning; Culture and Politics; Notes; CHAPTER EIGHT -- The Reluctant Mendicant; Fortune-Telling; The Hopkins Paradigm; An Unforgivable Crime; Jazz and Epidemic Disease; Beijing in Turmoil; Striking an Aunt; A Prestigious Middle School; Military Training and Opium; Warlords with Modern Weapons; Organized Murder; Under Fire at the Front; Shot in the Chest; National Weakness; Global Power Shifts; Amassing Firepower; A School and Model Factory; Public Service and Graft; Squandering the Family Fortune.
Death in ShanghaiCollecting Money for Tibetan Buddhism; A Buddhist Revolution; In the Cave; Crossing Burnt Bridges; Charitable Institutions; Diagnosis; Extracting the Final Resource; On the Cusp; Further Reading; Notes; CHAPTER NINE -- Hu Lanqi: Rebellious Woman, Revolutionary Soldier, Discarded Heroine, and Triumphant Survivor; Ideals for Women and Men in Early Twentieth-Century China; The Impact of War on Chinese Life; The Complications of Revolutionary Politics; Memory, History, and the Individual in the People's Republic of China; Further Reading; Notes.
CHAPTER TEN -- Zhao Ruiqin: A Peasant Woman in Gansu and Domestic Worker in Beijing.
Summary Through compelling biographies of a wide range of historical figures, this engaging text presents a panorama of modern Chinese history that illustrates the great social and political changes that have occurred over the past 500 years. Through the lives of both the famous and the obscure, the contributors explore such enduring themes of the flexibility of the definition of 'Chinese' in an era of imperialism and revolution, the tremendous transformations in gender relations, and the wide gap between the lives of urban and rural Chinese. Richly researched, these biographies are written in an acce.
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Subject China -- Biography.
China.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Stapleton, Kristin, 1963-
Berg, Daria.
Carroll, John.
Howard, Joshua H.
Lanza, Fabio.
Moore, Oliver.
Pan, Yihong.
Shapiro, Hugh.
Wang, Shuo.
Other Form: Print version: Hammond, Kenneth J. Human Tradition in Modern China. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007 9780742554665
ISBN 9781461644361 (electronic book)
1461644364 (electronic book)