Remapping China

by Hershatter, Gail; Honig, Emily; Lipman, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780804725101
• ISBN10: 0804725101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

These stimulating essays address such topics as histories of public health, emotional life, law, and sexuality, notions of borders and frontiers, the relationship between native place identities and nationalism, the May Fourth Movement, and the periodization of the Chinese revolution.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
How to Make Time Real: From Intellectual History to Embodied Memory	p. 13
Framing Plague in China's Past	p. 27
A Ming-Qing Transition in Chinese Women's History? The Perspective from Law	p. 42
Thinking About Copulating: An Early-Qing Confucian Thinker's Problem with Emotion and Words	p. 59
Sexing Modern China	p. 77
Hyphenated Chinese: Sino-Muslim Identity in Modern China	p. 97
New Perspectives on the Qing Frontier	p. 113
From Aborigines to Landed Proprietors: Taiwan Aboriginal Land Rights, 1690-1850	p. 130
Native Place and the Making of Chinese Ethnicity	p. 143
Competition and Cooperation in Late Imperial China as Reflected in Native Place and Ethnicity	p. 156
Creating Civic Ground: Public Maneuverings and the State in the Nanjing Decade	p. 164
Mapping the Hinterland: Treaty Ports and Regional Analysis in Modern China	p. 181
The Presence of the Fin-de-Siecle in the May Fourth Era	p. 194
American Science and Chinese Nationalism: Reflections on the Career of Zhou Peiyuan	p. 210
A Turning Point in the Modern Chinese Revolution: The Historical Significance of the Canton Decade, 1917-27	p. 224
Suspect History and the Mass Line: Another "Yan'an Way"	p. 242
Field Notes from the Present	p. 261
Notes	p. 277
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