Author: Lee-hsia Hsu Ting
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A pioneering study of government control of the press in Modern China, including censorship, bribery, and intimidation, in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes documentation of numerous cases of press persecution by various regimes, including the late Ch'ing dynasty, the Peking government and warlord years, the Nationalist government's Nanking decade, and the war of resistance against the Japanese and postwar periods..
Government Control of the Press in Modern China, 1900–1949
Author: Lee-hsia Hsu Ting
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A pioneering study of government control of the press in Modern China, including censorship, bribery, and intimidation, in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes documentation of numerous cases of press persecution by various regimes, including the late Ch'ing dynasty, the Peking government and warlord years, the Nationalist government's Nanking decade, and the war of resistance against the Japanese and postwar periods..
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A pioneering study of government control of the press in Modern China, including censorship, bribery, and intimidation, in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes documentation of numerous cases of press persecution by various regimes, including the late Ch'ing dynasty, the Peking government and warlord years, the Nationalist government's Nanking decade, and the war of resistance against the Japanese and postwar periods..
Government Control of the Press in Modern China, 1900-1949
Author: Lee-hsia Hsu Ting
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Publication Laws and Regulations in Modern China -- The Twilight of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1900-1911 -- The Growing Pains of the New Republic, 1912-1927 -- The Kuomintang Regime before the War, 1927-1937 (1) -- The Kuomintang Regime before the War, 1927-1937 (2) -- The War of Resistance, 1937-1945 -- The Aftermath of the War, 1945-1949 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Publication Laws and Regulations in Modern China -- The Twilight of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1900-1911 -- The Growing Pains of the New Republic, 1912-1927 -- The Kuomintang Regime before the War, 1927-1937 (1) -- The Kuomintang Regime before the War, 1927-1937 (2) -- The War of Resistance, 1937-1945 -- The Aftermath of the War, 1945-1949 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
The Search for Modern China
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393307801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393307801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.
Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680
Author: Lee Butler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An institution in decline, possessing little power in an age dominated by warriors? Or a still-potent symbol of social and political legitimacy? Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan traces the fate of the imperial Japanese court from its lowest point during the turbulent, century-long sengoku, when the old society, built upon the strength and influence of the court, the priesthood, and a narrow warrior elite, was shaken to its foundations, to the Tokugawa era, when court culture displayed renewed vitality, and tea gatherings, flower arranging, and architecture flourished. In determining how the court managed to persist and survive, Butler looks into contemporary documents, diaries, and letters to reveal the court's internal politics and protocols, hierarchies, finances, and ceremonial observances. Emperor and courtiers adjusted to the prominence of the warrior elite, even as they held on to the ideological advantages bestowed by birth, tradition, and culture. To this historical precedent the new wielders of power paid dutiful homage, ever mindful that ranks and titles, as well as the political blessing of the emperor, were advantageous marks of distinction.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An institution in decline, possessing little power in an age dominated by warriors? Or a still-potent symbol of social and political legitimacy? Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan traces the fate of the imperial Japanese court from its lowest point during the turbulent, century-long sengoku, when the old society, built upon the strength and influence of the court, the priesthood, and a narrow warrior elite, was shaken to its foundations, to the Tokugawa era, when court culture displayed renewed vitality, and tea gatherings, flower arranging, and architecture flourished. In determining how the court managed to persist and survive, Butler looks into contemporary documents, diaries, and letters to reveal the court's internal politics and protocols, hierarchies, finances, and ceremonial observances. Emperor and courtiers adjusted to the prominence of the warrior elite, even as they held on to the ideological advantages bestowed by birth, tradition, and culture. To this historical precedent the new wielders of power paid dutiful homage, ever mindful that ranks and titles, as well as the political blessing of the emperor, were advantageous marks of distinction.
Transmitters and Creators
Author: John Makeham
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
"The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius’s (551–479 B.C.E.) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of the Analects itself. Rather, the Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediated its meaning. Modern interpreters of the Analects only rarely acknowledge this legacy of two thousand years of commentaries. How well do we understand prominent or key commentaries from this tradition? How often do we read such commentaries as we might read the text on which they comment? Many commentaries do more than simply comment on a text. Not only do they shape the reading of the text, but passages of text serve as pretexts for the commentator to develop and expound his own body of thought. This book attempts to redress our neglect of commentaries by analyzing four key works dating from the late second century to the mid-nineteenth century (a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism): the commentaries of He Yan (ca. 190–249); Huang Kan (488–545); Zhu Xi (1130–1200); and Liu Baonan (1791–1855) and Liu Gongmian (1821–1880)."
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
"The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius’s (551–479 B.C.E.) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of the Analects itself. Rather, the Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediated its meaning. Modern interpreters of the Analects only rarely acknowledge this legacy of two thousand years of commentaries. How well do we understand prominent or key commentaries from this tradition? How often do we read such commentaries as we might read the text on which they comment? Many commentaries do more than simply comment on a text. Not only do they shape the reading of the text, but passages of text serve as pretexts for the commentator to develop and expound his own body of thought. This book attempts to redress our neglect of commentaries by analyzing four key works dating from the late second century to the mid-nineteenth century (a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism): the commentaries of He Yan (ca. 190–249); Huang Kan (488–545); Zhu Xi (1130–1200); and Liu Baonan (1791–1855) and Liu Gongmian (1821–1880)."
Unfinished Business
Author: Haruo Iguchi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417354X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880–1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan’s efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. Despite his close association with the Japanese government from the 1920s to the 1950s, Ayukawa was a proponent of free trade and global economic interdependence. He sought to lessen state control of Japan’s economy by trying to attract foreign—especially American—capital and technology in the years surrounding World War II. In the postwar era in particular, Ayukawa actively pushed the growth of small- and medium-sized firms, yet his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. In Unfinished Business, through exploring the reasons for Ayukawa’s failure, Haruo Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of today’s Japan."
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417354X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880–1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan’s efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. Despite his close association with the Japanese government from the 1920s to the 1950s, Ayukawa was a proponent of free trade and global economic interdependence. He sought to lessen state control of Japan’s economy by trying to attract foreign—especially American—capital and technology in the years surrounding World War II. In the postwar era in particular, Ayukawa actively pushed the growth of small- and medium-sized firms, yet his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. In Unfinished Business, through exploring the reasons for Ayukawa’s failure, Haruo Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of today’s Japan."
American Multinationals and Japan
Author: Mark Mason
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674026308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Drawing on rich historical materials from both sides of the Pacific, including corporate records and government documents never before made public, Mason examines the development of both Japanese policy towards foreign investment and the strategic responses of American corporations.
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674026308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Drawing on rich historical materials from both sides of the Pacific, including corporate records and government documents never before made public, Mason examines the development of both Japanese policy towards foreign investment and the strategic responses of American corporations.
The United Nations in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945–1992
Author: Liang Pan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684174244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
" In the mid-1950s, as part of Tokyo’s goal of reinstating Japan as a full member of the international community, Japan sought and gained admittance to the United Nations. Since then, it has been a proactive member and a generous financial contributor to the organization. This study focuses on postwar Japan’s foreign policy making in the political and security areas, the core UN missions. It analyzes these two policy arenas from three perspectives--international political structure, domestic political organization, and the psychology of policymakers. The intent is to illustrate how policy goals forged by national security concerns, domestic politics, and psychological needs gave shape to Japan’s complicated and sometimes incongruous policy toward the UN since World War II. In contrast to the usual emphasis on the role of the foreign-policy bureaucracy, however, the author argues that we must view the bureaucracy as functioning within a larger framework of party politics and interactions among government agencies, political parties, and other actors associated with these parties. The last part of the book addresses the psychological aspect of Japan’s UN policymaking in an effort to elucidate the role of national prestige in generating Japanese policy toward the UN. "
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684174244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
" In the mid-1950s, as part of Tokyo’s goal of reinstating Japan as a full member of the international community, Japan sought and gained admittance to the United Nations. Since then, it has been a proactive member and a generous financial contributor to the organization. This study focuses on postwar Japan’s foreign policy making in the political and security areas, the core UN missions. It analyzes these two policy arenas from three perspectives--international political structure, domestic political organization, and the psychology of policymakers. The intent is to illustrate how policy goals forged by national security concerns, domestic politics, and psychological needs gave shape to Japan’s complicated and sometimes incongruous policy toward the UN since World War II. In contrast to the usual emphasis on the role of the foreign-policy bureaucracy, however, the author argues that we must view the bureaucracy as functioning within a larger framework of party politics and interactions among government agencies, political parties, and other actors associated with these parties. The last part of the book addresses the psychological aspect of Japan’s UN policymaking in an effort to elucidate the role of national prestige in generating Japanese policy toward the UN. "
Hiraizumi
Author: Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the twelfth century, along the borders of the Japanese state in northern Honshu, three generations of local rulers built a capital city at Hiraizumi that became a major military and commercial center. Known as the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, these rulers created a city filled with art, in an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate. In the first book-length study of Hiraizumi in English, the author studies the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and analyzes their remarkable construction program. She traces the strategies by which the Hiraizumi Fujiwara attempted to legitimate their rule and grounds the splendor of Hiraizumi in the desires, political and personal, of the men and women who sponsored and displayed that art.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the twelfth century, along the borders of the Japanese state in northern Honshu, three generations of local rulers built a capital city at Hiraizumi that became a major military and commercial center. Known as the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, these rulers created a city filled with art, in an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate. In the first book-length study of Hiraizumi in English, the author studies the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and analyzes their remarkable construction program. She traces the strategies by which the Hiraizumi Fujiwara attempted to legitimate their rule and grounds the splendor of Hiraizumi in the desires, political and personal, of the men and women who sponsored and displayed that art.
The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin
Author: Joyce A. Madancy
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674012158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In 1908, a public crusade against opium seized China, and the provincial capital of Fuzhou was a central stage. The most successful attempt by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium came at a time when, according to many historians, China's central state was virtually powerless. Madancy attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction.
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674012158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In 1908, a public crusade against opium seized China, and the provincial capital of Fuzhou was a central stage. The most successful attempt by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium came at a time when, according to many historians, China's central state was virtually powerless. Madancy attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction.