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Book An Estimate of the Land Tax Collection in China  1753 and 1908

Download or read book An Estimate of the Land Tax Collection in China 1753 and 1908 written by v Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, resulting from extensive research on the land tax in China during the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), is based on the multivolume Ts'ai-cheng shuo-ming-shu (Financial reports) produced from a nationwide survey of public finance, 1908-1910, and numerous local gazetteers. It reveals in detail the complexity of surcharges levied with tax quotas, and so provides the first realistic estimate of the land tax actually collected in different provinces and districts.

Book Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China

Download or read book Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China written by R. David Arkush and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical study of one of China's leading social scientists follows his life history, and includes a bibliography of his books and articles. Trained in London under Malinowski, Fei Xiaotong achieved eminence in the 1930s and 1940s for his pioneering studies of Chinese peasant life and for his popular articles, which stirred a wide audience in China to an awareness of social and political problems. A non-Marxist who came to sympathize with the Communists, Fei was gradually constrained in his activities after the Revolution until, in the 1950s, a massive propaganda campaign vilified him as a bourgeois rightist intellectual. Almost twenty years of silence and disgrace followed. Following the death of Mao, Fei suddenly reemerged as a leader in the effort to revitalize the social sciences in China. The story of Fei's life told here is, in a sense, the story of Westernized intellectuals in China at a time of peasant revolution. His writings enunciate the views of a sensitive observer of Chinese and Western society during that period of dramatic change.

Book Local Government in China Under the Ch ing

Download or read book Local Government in China Under the Ch ing written by T’ung-tsu Ch’ü and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. It contains an introduction, ten chapters, conclusion, notes, index, bibliography, and glossary.

Book Vietnam and the Chinese Model

Download or read book Vietnam and the Chinese Model written by Alexander Barton Woodside and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why did the Vietnamese accept certain Chinese institutions and yet explicitly reject others? How did Vietnamese cultural borrowings from China alter the dynamics of traditional relations between Vietnam, Siam, Laos, and Cambodia? How did Vietnam’s smaller Southeast Asian environment modify and distort classical East Asian institutions? Woodside has answered these questions in this well-received political and cultural study. This first real comparison of the civil governments of two traditional East Asian societies on an institution-by-institution basis is now reissued with a new preface."

Book Wei Y  an and China   s Rediscovery of the Maritime World

Download or read book Wei Y an and China s Rediscovery of the Maritime World written by Jane Kate Leonard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revises earlier views of statecraft reformer Wei Yuan and of Chinese foreign relations during the nineteenth century. Approaching the history of nineteenth-century China from the perspective of Southeast Asian history, the author demonstrates the interaction, from Ch'in times onwards, between China and the Southern ocean or Nan-yang.

Book China Marches West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter C. Perdue
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 067401684X
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book China Marches West written by Peter C. Perdue and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perdue illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China's frontier expansion.

Book Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

Download or read book Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953 written by Noriko Kamachi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliographical guide to Japanese research published between 1953 and 1969 on the topic of Modern China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Book Re examining the Cold War  U S  China Diplomacy  1954   1973

Download or read book Re examining the Cold War U S China Diplomacy 1954 1973 written by Robert S. Ross and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other’s policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.–China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart’s policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

Book China Charts the World

Download or read book China Charts the World written by Fred W. Drake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Ying huan chih lueh, a work on world geography written by the Chinese official Hsu Chi-yü and published in 1848. Provides an account of Hsu's life and career and includes a translation of much of Ying huan chih lueh as well.

Book The Dewey Experiment in China

Download or read book The Dewey Experiment in China written by Barry Keenan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines John Dewey's lectures in China between 1919 and 1921 and the impact of his progressive ideas on educational reform in that country.

Book Rural Industrialization in China

Download or read book Rural Industrialization in China written by Jon Sigurdson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main development strategies. One involves technology choices in a number of industrial sectors, most of which were initiated during the Great Leap Forward in the late fifties. The scaling down of modern large-scale technology through a product or quality choice, combined with changes in the manufacturing processes, is discussed at some length for nitrogen chemical fertilizer and cement. The other approach is the integrated rural development strategy where a number of activities are integrated within or closely related to the commune system. This strategy includes industry as only one component of many instruments where improved public health, education, and improved agricultural technology contribute to achieving such policy objectives as increased employment and productivity."

Book Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China

Download or read book Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China written by Jing Su and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the sixteenth century, commercial and handicraft towns linked to national and local markets had already begun to emerge. Urban growth was made possible by increased agricultural production, which in turn stimulated specialization and increased commercialization in the agricultural sector. Another important change in rural society at this time was the emergence of a new stratum of wealthy landlords who managed their estates with wage labor. Case studies of managerial landlords, who form the main focus of this study, are included as well as generalizations drawn from questionnaire materials. Luo Lun and Jing Su wrote this book while they were young researchers at Shandong University in the late 1950s, using data they had gathered in the culturally relaxed period of the Hundred Flowers. In his introduction, Endymion Wilkinson analyzes the authors’ thesis and concludes that their Leninist model is inapplicable to premodern Chinese history. The value of this study lies not so much in its conclusion that even without the impact of Western imperialism China would of itself have developed a capitalist society, but rather in the wealth of data the authors present, in this first in-depth study of a relatively advanced region in north China."

Book The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China

Download or read book The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China written by Kang Chao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many studies of the Chinese cotton textile industry for various time periods. But most of them are rather limited in the scope of inquiry, and, occasionally, their interpretations cannot stand rigorous economic reasoning. The present study is an attempt to reorganized the data, which are widely scattered in an extremely large number of Chinese historical documents and modern writings, in a systematic fashion, and to provide an economic analysis. This study covers the entire history of the industry.

Book The Home Base of American China Missions  1880 1920

Download or read book The Home Base of American China Missions 1880 1920 written by Valentin H. Rabe and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, approximately two dozen Protestant mission societies expanded their operations with unprecedented urgency and efficiency. Rabe focuses on the recruitment of personnel, fundraising, administration, promotional propaganda, and other logistical problems faced by the agencies in the United States.

Book Land Taxation in Imperial China  1750 1911

Download or read book Land Taxation in Imperial China 1750 1911 written by Yeh-chien Wang and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama

Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama written by George A. Hayden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides full annotated translations of three previously untranslated Yuan-Ming Judge Pao courtroom dramas.