Wu Han Historian

Author : Mary G. Mazur
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739130223

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Wu Han, Historian by Mary G. Mazur Pdf

This biography spotlights the life of a key Chinese intellectual, Wu Han, well known in China as a major twentieth-century historian and democratic political figure. World attention was drawn to Wu in the mid-1960s as the first of Mao Zedong's targets in the Cultural Revolution. The biography locates Wu in the rapid changes in the social and political environment of his times, from the early years of the twentieth century until his death in prison in 1969. With Wu Han's life as the focus, the narrative deals with the momentous changes in Chinese society and government during the last century. Mazur bases the biographical account on extensive interviewing in China, and penetrates a great deal deeper than the conventional conception of the shift from Nationalist to Communist regimes in the PRC. The complex life of Wu Han is of interest to specialist and non-specialist readers alike, both because of the broad relevance of the historical and political issues he and those around him confronted in the context of the times in China and because of the direct narrative biographical style revealing the conflicts and depth in the human situation. Mazur relates Wu Han's life to the momentous changes and conflicts surging through Chinese society, with special emphasis on the complex role intellectuals have played during the course of change.

Author : Mary Gale Mazur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Historians
ISBN : OCLC:429305715

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A Man of His Times : Wu Han, the Historian by Mary Gale Mazur Pdf

Author : James Reeve Pusey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : China
ISBN : UVA:X001819399

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Wu Han: Attacking the Present Through the Past by James Reeve Pusey Pdf

The author analyzes the political actions of Wu Han during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Wu criticized the deterioration of Confucian values in Communist society, and as an historian and vice-mayor of Peking, protested through literature and scholarhip.

Author : Clive Ansley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487596408

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The Heresy of Wu Han by Clive Ansley Pdf

At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People's Republic, he was the eighth-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party, and his Peking Opera Hai Jui's Dismissal was performed all over China. Gradually it became apparent that Wu Han was using Hai Jui to lampoon Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the core policies of the CPP. Other dissidents began to pen articles and plays on similar themes. For several years Mao chafed under these literary attacks, but in late 1965 he retaliated. A sudden, scathing attack on Wu Han and his play by an obscure newspaper editor marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a cataclysm in which the Party leadership was decimated while Mao regained full supremacy. This volume presents the first translation of Wu Han's plays and helps to clarify the obscure origins of a national phenomenon that was at once intellectual, social, and political.

Author : James Pusey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684171644

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Wu Han by James Pusey Pdf

Examines Wu's satirical writings from the Kuomintang period up through the 1960s. Wu was part of the anti-party literary campaign from 1959 through 1965.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004522930

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Fan Ye's Book of Later Han (Houhanshu) by Anonim Pdf

The Book of Later Han (Houhanshu) by Fan Ye (398-445) is enormously important as China’s most complete work on Eastern Han history in biographical form. For the first time in any Western language, the author introduces Fan Ye’s magnificent writings in lively translation with rich annotation and informative and insightful commentary. This first volume covers its early military history and highlights the lives and achievements of the twenty-eight generals who helped Emperor Guangwu unify China and establish the Eastern Han dynasty. Also included are images of these twenty-eight founding fathers, maps, and information related to early Eastern Han systems.

Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021419

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The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History by Timothy Cheek Pdf

A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today.

Author : Ku Pan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:626441716

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The History of the Former Han Dynasty by Ku Pan Pdf

Author : Hung, Hing Ming
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628944181

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The Magnificent Emperor Wu by Hung, Hing Ming Pdf

Hing Hing Ming reviews some of the major episodes of the Han Dynasty, from its founding by Liu Bang to the Lü Clan Disturbance and subsequent diplomatic overtures and military campaigns against the minor Chinese kingdoms, the Mongols, and Gojoseon (the ancient Korean Kingdom).

Author : Han Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015013513000

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Hai Jui Dismissed from Office by Han Wu Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015008631718

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Chinese Studies in History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Qian Sima,William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0253340225

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The Grand Scribe's Records by Qian Sima,William H. Nienhauser Pdf

This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi(The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 BC to ca. 100 BC) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In The Grand Scribe's Records, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalised the style of the annals he had written for previous rulers. Here are accounts of the peasant who founded the dynasty, Liu Pang, a man noted as much for his licentiousness as he was his ruthless political instinct, and of his cruel wife, Empress Lÿ, who murdered her chief rival for Liu Pang's affections in the most gruesome manner. The annals of two relatively undistinguished emperors follow. The volume concludes with Ssu-ma's depiction of perhaps the greatest ruler of the Han, Emperor Wu, told within the context of his delusive attempts to find a means to achieve immortality. When completed this translation will bring all 130 chapters of the Shih chi into English. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787386129

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Made in China by Jasper Becker Pdf

What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world? The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of biological warfare and a developer of deadly bioweapons. When Covid broke out, Wuhan was building science parks to realise Beijing's ambitions in biotech research. Whoever achieves global leadership of the gene-editing industry stands to harvest great power and wealth. China has already challenged Western technological supremacy with 5G and in other industries. Yet this tiny, invisible virus has cruelly exposed a critical flaw in the Chinese political system: obsessive secrecy. The West wanted to trust the PRC, hoping that, as it prospered, it would become an open society. Made in China reveals how Beijing's leaders have betrayed that trust.

Author : Esther S. Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004376878

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Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song by Esther S. Klein Pdf

In Father of Chinese History, Esther Klein explores the life and work of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian as seen by readers from the Han to the Song dynasties (100 BCE-1200 CE).

Author : Liang Cai
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438448497

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Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire by Liang Cai Pdf

Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China’s Emperor Wu. When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141–87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qian’s The Grand Scribe’s Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91–87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come.