Qing Ji Zi Qiang Yun Dong Yan Tao Hui Lun Wen Ji

Author : Philip Thai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231546362

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China’s War on Smuggling by Philip Thai Pdf

Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but crucial influence on the political economy of modern China. Seeking to consolidate domestic authority and confront foreign challenges, states introduced tighter regulations, higher taxes, and harsher enforcement. These interventions sparked widespread defiance, triggering further coercive measures. Smuggling simultaneously threatened the state’s power while inviting repression that strengthened its authority. Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power. China’s War on Smuggling shows that the fight against smuggling was not a simple law enforcement problem but rather an impetus to centralize authority and expand economic controls. The smuggling epidemic gave Chinese states pretext to define legal and illegal behavior, and the resulting constraints on consumption and movement remade everyday life for individuals, merchants, and communities. Drawing from varied sources such as legal cases, customs records, and popular press reports and including diverse perspectives from political leaders, frontline enforcers, organized traffickers, and petty runners, Thai uncovers how different regimes policed maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed. China’s War on Smuggling traces how defiance and repression redefined state power, offering new insights into modern Chinese social, legal, and economic history.

Author : Edward J. M. Rhoads
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295997483

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Manchus and Han by Edward J. M. Rhoads Pdf

China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China�s Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and complicated question in Manchus and Han, analyzing the evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste (the �banner people�) to a distinct ethnic group and then detailing the interplay and dialogue between the Manchu court and Han reformers that culminated in the dramatic changes of the early 20th century. Until now, many scholars have assumed that the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. But Rhoads demonstrates that in many ways Manchus remained an alien, privileged, and distinct group. Manchus and Han is a pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Likewise, it will clarify for ethnologists the unique origin of the Manchus as an occupational caste and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, sponsored by The China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Author : Jennifer Rudolph
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942242376

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Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China by Jennifer Rudolph Pdf

Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134759255

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War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945 by Hans van de Ven Pdf

In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an independent and modern nation; yet this image was quickly tarnished. The Nationalists were soon denounced as militarily incompetent, corrupt, and antidemocratic and Chiang Kaishek, the same. In this book, van de Ven investigates the myths and truths of Nationalist resistance including issues such as: the role of the US in East Asia during the Second World War the achievements of Chiang Kaishek as Nationalist leader the respective contributions of the Nationalists and the Communists to the defeat of Japan the consequences of the Europe First strategy for Asia. War and Nationalism in China offers a major new interpretation of the Chinese Nationalists, placing their war of resistance against Japan in the context of their prolonged efforts to establish control over their own country and providing a critical reassessment of Allied Warfare in the region. This groundbreaking volume will interest students and researchers of Chinese History and Warfare.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106016709583

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Qing ji zi qiang yun dong yan tao hui lun wen ji by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684176403

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A Path Twice Traveled by Paul A. Cohen Pdf

In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir’s final chapter, appropriately titled “Then and Now: The Two Histories.”

Author : Erik Baark
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040687991

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Lightning Wires by Erik Baark Pdf

Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an inconvenient technology contributed to violent conflicts between foreigners and the Chinese, but that this resistence gradually gave way to an assimilation of the telegraph into Chinese society. The transfer and assimilation of advanced technology has been an important challenge for China's modernization for more than a century. Baark examines some of the dilemmas faced by Chinese modernizers of the yangwu (Western affairs) movement from the 1860s to the 1890s. Telegraph technology emerged in the West on the basis of scientific discoveries in electricity in the early nineteenth century, and was greeted with enthusiasm by governments and the public alike. The Chinese attitudes to the telegraph, however, were informed by entirely different political and cultural priorities. Baark examines the tensions which existed between the Chinese and the foreign companies seeking to extend telegraph technology to East Asian cities, and he shows how the domestic network was shaped by indigenous social and cultural forces. This book will be of considerable interest to historians of modern China, technology, and economic development.

Author : Robert Gardella,Jane Kate Leonard,Andrea Lee McElderry
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 0765603462

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Chinese Business History by Robert Gardella,Jane Kate Leonard,Andrea Lee McElderry Pdf

This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature and identifies the major issue in this subfield of modern Chinese history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015051893785

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Chinese Studies in History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yi Li
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110441347

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Chinese Bureaucratic Culture and Its Influence on the 19th-century Steamship Operation, 1864-1885 by Yi Li Pdf

Author : Yuming He
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170661

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Home and the World by Yuming He Pdf

China’s sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era’s print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts, but as material objects and economic commodities designed, produced, and marketed to stand out in the distinctive book marketplace of the time, and promising high enjoyment and usefulness to readers. Although many of the mass-market commercial imprints studied here might have struck scholars from the eighteenth century on as too trivial, lowbrow, or slipshod to merit serious study, they prove to be an invaluable resource, providing insight into their readers’ orientations toward the increasingly complex global stage of early modernity and toward traditional Chinese conceptions of textual, political, and moral authority. On a more intimate scale, they tell us about readers’ ideals of a fashionable and pleasurable private life. Through studying these works, we come closer to recapturing the trend-conscious, sophisticated, and often subversive ways readers at this important moment in China’s history imagined their world and their place within it. 2015 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Author : Jia'en Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 7600 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789819919642

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Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2022 by Jia'en Lin Pdf

This book focuses on reservoir surveillance and management, reservoir evaluation and dynamic description, reservoir production stimulation and EOR, ultra-tight reservoir, unconventional oil and gas resources technology, oil and gas well production testing, and geomechanics. This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 12th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC 2022). The conference not only provides a platform to exchanges experience, but also promotes the development of scientific research in oil & gas exploration and production. The main audience for the work includes reservoir engineer, geological engineer, enterprise managers, senior engineers as well as professional students.

Author : Bingyuan Cao,Tai-Fu Li,Cheng-Yi Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1687 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642036644

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Fuzzy Information and Engineering Volume 2 by Bingyuan Cao,Tai-Fu Li,Cheng-Yi Zhang Pdf

This book is the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE 2009) held in the famous mountain city Chongqing in Southwestern China, from September 26-29, 2009. Only high-quality papers are included. The ICFIE 2009, built on the success of previous conferences, the ICFIE 2007 (Guangzhou, China), is a major symposium for scientists, engineers and practitioners in the world to present their updated results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of fuzzy information and engineering. It aims to strengthen relations between industry research laboratories and universities, and to create a primary symposium for world scientists in fuzzy fields as follows: Fuzzy Information; Fuzzy Sets and Systems; Soft Computing; Fuzzy Engineering; Fuzzy Operation Research and Management; Artificial Intelligence; Fuzzy Mathematics and Systems in Applications, etc.

Author : Andreas N. Angelakis,Larry W. Mays,Demetris Koutsoyiannis,Nikos Mamassis
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843395409

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Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia by Andreas N. Angelakis,Larry W. Mays,Demetris Koutsoyiannis,Nikos Mamassis Pdf

Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water supply technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. A comparison of the water technological developments in several civilizations is undertaken. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in water engineering and management practices. It is the best proof that “the past is the key for the future.” Rapid technological progress in the twentieth century created a disregard for past water technologies that were considered to be far behind the present ones. There are a great deal of unresolved problems related to the management principles, such as the decentralization of the processes, the durability of the water projects, the cost effectiveness, and sustainability issues such as protection from floods and droughts. In the developing world, such problems were intensified to an unprecedented degree. Moreover, new problems have arisen such as the contamination of surface and groundwater. Naturally, intensification of unresolved problems led societies to revisit the past and to reinvestigate the successful past achievements. To their surprise, those who attempted this retrospect, based on archaeological, historical, and technical evidence were impressed by two things: the similarity of principles with present ones and the advanced level of water engineering and management practices. Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia is intended for engineers in water resources companies, hydraulic design companies, and water Institutes. It can be used for all courses related to water resources. Authors: Andreas N. Angelakis, Institute of Iraklion, National Foundation for Agricultural Research (N.AG.RE.F.), Greece, Larry W. Mays, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, USA, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Nikos Manassis, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Coast defenses
ISBN : UOM:39015061625490

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近代中國海防軍事舆經濟 by Anonim Pdf