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Bibliography Of Chinese History
This bibliography covers the English language scholarship of major studies in Chinese history. Surveys * * * * Fairbank, John King and Goldman, Merle. ''China: A New History.'' 2nd ed. Harvard U. Press, (2006). 640 pp. * Gernet, Jacques, J. R. Foster, and Charles Hartman. ''A History of Chinese Civilization'' (1996). One-volume survey. * Hsu, Cho-yun. ''China: A New Cultural History'' (Columbia University Press; 2012) 612 pp; stress on China's encounters with successive waves of globalization. * Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh. ''The Rise of Modern China,'' 6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 1999). Detailed coverage of 1644–1999, 1136 pp. * Huang, Ray. ''China, a Macro History'' (1997) 335 pp. A personal, essayistic approach. * Keay, John. ''China: A History'' (2009), 642 pp. * Mote, Frederick W. ''Imperial China, 900–1800'' Harvard University Press, 1999, 1,136 pp. Authoritative treatment of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. * Perkins, Dorothy. ''Encyclopedia of China: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Dictionary Of Republican China
Biographical Dictionary of Republican China is a biographical dictionary in four-volumes, often abbreviated as BDRC or referred to as "Boorman." It was published from 1967 to 1971 by Columbia University Press, edited by Howard L. Boorman, Director of the Research Project on Men and Politics in Modern China at Columbia University, with Richard C. Howard and O. Edmund Clubb. It includes 600 biographical articles written by some seventy-five contributors on men and women prominent in China's Republican period (1911-1949). Their careers are followed beyond 1949, some until 1966. More than half of the subjects are in politics, military, diplomacy or administration; a little more than a quarter intellectuals, such as scholars, journalists, propagandists; 10.8% in the arts; 7% in professions such as doctors, jurists, and clergy; and only 6.2% in business. Volume IV includes bibliographical references for all volumes. A fifth volume, A Personal Name Index, compiled by Jane Krompart, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter is an American historian of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She previously taught in the history department at Williams College. She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2010 and subsequently elected president the following year. She was an assistant director for the documentary ''The Gate of Heavenly Peace''. Her research interests include modern Chinese women's history and labor studies. Her 2011 monograph, ''The Gender of Memory'', uses the lens of rural women in Shaanxi Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s. Awards * 1997 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History, American Historical Association * 2007 Guggenheim Fellow * 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Ebrey
Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American historian specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese Song Dynasty. Ebrey obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1968 and her Masters and PhD from Columbia University in 1970 and 1975, respectively. Upon receiving her PhD, Ebrey was hired as visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She became an associate professor in 1982 and a full professor three years later. Subsequently, in 1997, she accepted a Professor of History position at the University of Washington, from which she retired in July 2020. She's now Professor Emerita of History at that institution. Honors Ebrey has received a number of awards for her work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Ebrey's ''The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Ts'ui-jung
Liu Ts'ui-jung (; born 5 December 1941) is a Taiwanese historian. Born in 1941, Liu attended National Changhua Girls' Senior High School in her hometown of Changhua. She graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in history in 1963, and commenced graduate study at NTU, earning her first master's degree in 1966. Liu worked as a research fellow at Academia Sinica until receiving a scholarship from the Harvard–Yenching Institute. She earned a second master's degree, followed by a doctorate at Harvard University. Liu returned to Academia Sinica after finishing her doctoral studies. She has taught as an associate professor at Soochow University and NTU, where she was promoted to full professor in 1980. Liu held several visiting fellowships and professorships throughout her career. She was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1996, and remained a research fellow there until 2015. Liu was elected a board member of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation in 2000, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mao's China And After
''Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic'' is a book by Maurice Meisner. It is a revision of ''Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic'' (1977). Meisner often found his work needed fundamental revision. The first edition of his book was finished just a few weeks before Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. A second edition, published in 1986 as ''Mao’s China and After''. The book also analyzed the changes that happened with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping. A third edition, published in 1999, studied the origins and consequences of Chinese capitalism. Rebecca Karl wrote "[h]aving taught his ''Mao’s China and After'', I knew that a theoretically coherent and analytically challenging text was possible to use in the classroom." Notes 1977 non-fiction books Books about Maoist China {{china-hist-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Meisner
Maurice Jerome Meisner (November 17, 1931 – January 23, 2012) was an historian of 20th century China and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His study of the Chinese Revolution (1949), Chinese Revolution and the China, People's Republic was in conjunction with his strong interest in socialism, socialist ideology, Marxism, and Maoism in particular. He authored a number of books including ''Mao's China and After, Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic'' (and subsequent editions) which became a standard academic text in that area. Maurice Meisner was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1931 to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He had two marriages each lasting about 30 years, first to Lorraine Faxon Meisner and subsequently to Lynn Lubkeman. He had three children from the first marriage and one child from the second. He died at his home in Madison, Wisconsin in 2012. Early years Meisner grew up in Detroit during the austere years of the Great Depression and W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A History Of The Chinese Revolution, 1945–57
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dikötter
Frank Dikötter (; ) is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China. Dikötter has been Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. Before relocating to Hong Kong, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Work In ''Patient Zero'' (2003) and ''Narcotic Culture'' (2004), Dikötter posits that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself. These works have been poorly received by academics, with historian Kathleen L. Lodwick saying that "''Narcotic Culture'' appears to be one of the revisionist histories of which there have been several lately that have aimed at convincing us that imperialism wasn't all that bad, or at least that we should not blame the imperialists, in this case the opium traders who made vast fortunes from the trade, for the social problems they created. Closer attention to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rana Mitter
Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter (born 1969), known as Rana Mitter, is a British historian and political scientist of Indian origin who specialises in the history of republican China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, formerly director of Oxford's China Centre, and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College. His 2013 book ''China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival'' (titled ''Forgotten Ally: China’s War with Japan, 1937-45'' for publication in the US), about the Second Sino-Japanese War, was well received by critics. He is also a regular presenter for ''Night Waves'' (now known as "Free Thinking") on BBC Radio 3. British of Indian heritage, he grew up on the south coast of England, near Brighton. Mitter was educated at Lancing College, and King's College, Cambridge, where he received both his MA and PhD; in 1991 he was elected President of the Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua A
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ibn Nūn''; la, Iosue functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua. His name was Hoshea ( ''Hōšēaʿ'', lit. 'Save') the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him "Yehoshua" (translated as "Joshua" in English),''Bible'' the name by which he is commonly known in English. According to the Bible, he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus. The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In Numbers 13:1, and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes. According to bibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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