From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise

by Assandri, Friederike

• ISBN13: 9789053567951
• ISBN10: 905356795X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events as different as the inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the China display on the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Christianity and state-building in Chaozhou, the Taiwan salt trade, Chinese indentured labour in World War I in France, China's rise and current internet regulation. This book highlights the complexity of multi-level interaction of different agents in the center and periphery of China, inside and outside China, contributing to intellectual debates, political and social dynamics, economy structure, modernization, identity building and interaction with the outside.

Author Biography

Friedrike Assandri is research associate in the Department of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg and at the Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Its Application in Shanghai. Dora Martins is coordinator at the Centre for Politics and International Relations at the Portuguese Institute of Sinology.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Charts	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Inter-religious Debate at the Court of the Early Tang: An Introduction to Daoxuarfs Ji gujin Fo Dao lunheng	p. 15
Social Crises and Political Reform during the Jiaqing Reign of Qing China, 1796-1810S33	p. 53
China on Display at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893: Faces of Modernization in the Contact Zone	p. 53
Christianity and State-Building in Republican Chaozhou, South China	p. 67
The Structure of Salt Distribution in Taiwan, 1895-1945	p. 89
Semi-Colonialism and Cultural Interaction:Chinese Indentured Labor in World War One France and the Sino-French Connection	p. 111
Chinas Rise: Some Considerations	p. 121
A Snapshot of Internet Regulation in Contemporary China:Censorship, Profitability and Responsibility	p. 141
List of Contributors	p. 153
Index	p. 155
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