Yuan Shikai

Author : Patrick Fuliang Shan
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774837810
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yuan Shikai written by Patrick Fuliang Shan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been both hailed as China’s George Washington for his role in the country’s transition from empire to republic and condemned as a counter-revolutionary. Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal sheds new light on the controversial history of this talented administrator and modernizer who endeavoured to establish a new dynasty while serving as the first president of the republic, eventually declaring himself emperor. Drawing on untapped primary sources and recent scholarship, Patrick Fuliang Shan offers a lucid, comprehensive, and critical new interpretation of Yuan’s part in shaping modern China.

Author : Sheau-yeau J. Chao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495507922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five-Hundred-Year History of the Yuan Shikai Family of China written by Sheau-yeau J. Chao and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Qiang Fang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498574327
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China written by Qiang Fang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines corruption and abuses of power in China from the end of the imperial period to the present. The interdisciplinary group of contributors examines how the Chinese Communist Party has adapted to economic and social changes while continuing to control the law, state, and mass media.

Author : Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113461215X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by Joseph W. Esherick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic fuelled further revolutionary movements, each intended to be more thoroughgoing than the last, from the National Revolution of the 1920s, to the Communist Revolution, and finally the Cultural Revolution. On the centenary of the 1911 Revolution, Chinese scholars debated the causes and significance of the empire’s collapse, and this book presents twelve of the most important contributions. Rather than focusing on Sun Yat-sen’s relatively weak and divided revolutionary movement, as much previous scholarship has, these studies examine the internal dynamics of political and socio-economic change in China. The chapters reveal how reforms in education, army organization, and constitutional rule created new social forces and political movements that undermined dynastic legitimacy within China and on its frontiers. Through detailed analyses, using new archival, memoir, diary, and newspaper sources, the authors cast new light on the sudden collapse of an empire that many thought was at last embarked on a road to reform and national rejuvenation. China: How the Empire Fell will be of huge interest to students and scholars of modern Chinese history as well as those of contemporary China.

Author : Kirk W. Larsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174678
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Treaties, and Trade written by Kirk W. Larsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relations between the Chosŏn and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operation of the “traditional” Chinese ”tribute system.” In contrast, this work contends that the motivations, tactics, and successes (and failures) of the late Qing Empire in Chosŏn Korea mirrored those of other nineteenth-century imperialists. Between 1850 and 1910, the Qing attempted to defend its informal empire in Korea by intervening directly, not only to preserve its geopolitical position but also to promote its commercial interests. And it utilized the technology of empire—treaties, international law, the telegraph, steamships, and gunboats.Although the transformation of Qing–Chosŏn diplomacy was based on modern imperialism, this work argues that it is more accurate to describe the dramatic shift in relations in terms of flexible adaptation by one of the world’s major empires in response to new challenges. Moreover, the new modes of Qing imperialism were a hybrid of East Asian and Western mechanisms and institutions. Through these means, the Qing Empire played a fundamental role in Korea’s integration into regional and global political and economic systems."

Author : Stephen R. MacKinnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Politics in Late Imperial China written by Stephen R. MacKinnon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442210060
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Miles of Dreams written by Sasha Su-Ling Welland and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction. Shuhua's tumultuous affair with Virginia Woolf's nephew during his years in China eventually drew her into the orbit of the Bloomsbury group. The sisters were Chinese "modern girls" who sought to forge their own way in an era of social revolution that unsettled relations between men and women and among nations. Daughters of an imperial scholar-official and a concubine, they followed trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation. Biographer Sasha Su-Ling Welland stumbled across their remarkable stories while recording her grandmother's oral history. She discovered the secret Amy had jealously hidden from family in the United States—her sister's fame as a Chinese woman writer—as well as intriguing discrepancies between the sisters' versions of the past. Shaped by the social history of their day, the journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle. Visit the author's website for more information and upcoming events. http://www.sashawelland.com/index.html

Author : Ji Lu
Publisher : DeepLogic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Biographies of Corrupt Officials in Ancient China written by Ji Lu and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the volume of "Selected Biographies of Corrupt Officials in Ancient China" among a series of books for "100 Biographies on Chinese Historical Figures".

Author : Roger R. Thompson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674119734
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911 written by Roger R. Thompson and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a wealth of previously unexamined material, Roger R. Thompson demonstrates the energy and significance of late-Qing local-self-government movement, making a compelling case that it was separate from the well-studied phenomenon of provincial assemblies and constitutionalism in general.

Author : Ernest P. Young
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidency of Yuan Shih-kʻai written by Ernest P. Young and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of reformer Yuan Shih-k'ai, who was later seen as the "betrayer of the republic" and the "father of warlordism."