Germany and Republican China
Author: William C. Kirby
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780804712095
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Author: William C. Kirby
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780804712095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William C. Kirby
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henrike Rudolph
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-13
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 3030949346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new perspective on the transnational dimensions of China’s educational and economic history by focusing on Sino-German interactions in the field of vocational education. It explores how Chinese perceptions of manual work, vocational skills, and educational practices changed dramatically throughout the first half of the twentieth century as Chinese educators increased their efforts to study and translate German pedagogical writings. Case studies researched in this book illustrate how a Chinese appreciation for German technological and scientific advances and German interests in profiting from a growing Chinese economy are not just recent phenomena but have their roots in the early twentieth century.
Author: William C. Kirby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022-07-05
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0674737717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of—and threats to—US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
Author: Hao Chen
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Published: 2015
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Until the late 1930s, National Socialist Germany was a close ally to the Republic of China (or Republican China, ROC). From 1937 to 1941, the Sino-German alliance progressively collapsed against the background of Sino-Japanese War. On the one hand, the ROC attempted hardly to recover its partnership with Germany. On the other hand, it was forced to search for a new ally which could help in resisting Japanese aggression. Ultimately, after the Pearl Harbour attack on December 1941, China tied itself to the United States, an ally which political system was more different from the Guomindang (GMD, Chinese Nationalist Party) compared to Germany. My thesis analyzes China's parallel relationships with both Germany and the United States between 1937 and 1941, especially the interplays of domestic politics and foreign relations behind these relationships. ROC's negotiation with both countries for alliance profoundly reshaped the nature of China as a nation-state, the nature of the GMD government as a nationalistic authoritarian regime, and the nature of the Second World War as the conflict of democracy versus totalitarianism." --
Author: Wai Ling So
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-31
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 131735902X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of Shandong, considering amongst other issues free trade and protection, the impact of the Gold Standard and assistance given to particular companies. The book shows how the Qingdao and Shandong economies fitted into overall East Asian and global trade patterns and how during this period these economies became more fully integrated into the world economy. The book concludes by discussing how although there was a great deal of co-operation between the Qingdao and Shandong governments, there were also growing tensions.
Author: Xia Shi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0231546238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the years spanning the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican era, the status of Chinese women changed in both subtle and decisive ways. As domestic seclusion ceased to be a sign of virtue, new opportunities emerged for a variety of women. Much scholarly attention has been given to the rise of the modern, independent “new women” during this period. However, far less is known about the stories of married nonprofessional women without modern educations and their public activities. In At Home in the World, Xia Shi unearths the history of how these women moved out of their sequestered domestic life; engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities; and repositioned themselves as effective public actors in urban Chinese society. Investigating the lives of individual women as well as organizations such as the YWCA and the Daoyuan, she shows how her protagonists built on the past rather than repudiating it, drawing on broader networks of family, marriage, and friendship and reconfiguring existing beliefs into essential components of modern Chinese gender roles. The book stresses the collective forms of agency these women exercised in their endeavors, highlighting the significance of charitable and philanthropic work as political, social, and civic engagement. Shi also analyzes how men—alive, dead, or absent—both empowered and constrained women’s public ventures. She offers a new perspective on how the public, private, and domestic realms were being remade and rethought in early twentieth-century China, in particular, how the women navigated these developing spheres. At Home in the World sheds new light on how women exerted their influence beyond the home and expands the field of Chinese women’s history.
Author: Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Publisher:
Published: 1938-03-18
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781508946762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo the cynic, two nations clasped in murderous embrace yet nominally living in peace with each other might well be one of the miracles of our century. No less miraculous has been for many the tenacity of Chinese resistance to Japan's invasion ever since the first bullets whizzed through the night near the Marco Polo Bridge southwest of Peking early in July, 1937. The undeclared war has spread disaster through an area larger than that immediately affected in Europe's battles from 1914 to 1918; hundreds of thousands have died in action; for months China's capital has been in the hands of the enemy. But China is not on her knees.The explanation is simple. For the first time in her history, China fights as a nation. More is involved than can be attributed to Generalissimo Chiang K'ai-shek's personal leadership or the strategic and organizational services rendered, until his recent recall to Germany, by Alexander von Falkenhausen, chief of staff of the Turkish armies during the World War.
Author: Roger B. Jeans
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780847687077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book is the first full-length English-language study to explore the struggles for constitutional democracy and democratic socialism of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang, 1887-1969), a major political and intellectual figure in Republican China. Focusing on Zhang's writings, Roger Jeans has provided detailed descriptions and extensive translations of Zhang's key books and essays. He sets the context for these seminal works by describing Zhang's personal situation, the social and intellectual milieu, and the political climate at the time.
Author: Diana Lary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-08
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1139461885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.