Chinese Professionals and the Republican State
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

Author: Xiaoqun Xu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-12-04

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1139431846

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Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieu. This 2001 book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history. The professional associations were, as the author writes, 'unambiguously urban and modern in their origins and functions ... representing a new breed of educated Chinese' and they pioneered a new type of relationship with the state. Xu addresses a central issue in China studies, the relationship between state and society, and proposes an alternative to the Western-derived concept of civil society. This book illuminates the complexity of modernization and nationalism in twentieth-century China, and provides a concrete case for comparative studies of professionalization and class formation across cultures.

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937

Author: Xiaoqun Xu

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781280159091

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Xu makes a compelling, original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China. This book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history.

Trial of Modernity
Trial of Modernity

Author:

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0804779503

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This title explores the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Rebulican era. It offers an analysis of how judicial reform initiatives were envisioned and pursued by the central government from 1901 through 1937, how the various initiatives were implemented at the provincial and county levels, and much more.

Learning to Emulate the Wise
Learning to Emulate the Wise

Author: John Makeham

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Published: 2012-07-02

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9629964783

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Learning to Emulate the Wise is the first book of a threevolume series that constructs a historically informed, multidisciplinary framework to examine how traditional Chinese knowledge systems and grammars of knowledge construction interacted with Western paradigms in the formation and development of modern academic disciplines in China. Within this volume, John Makeham and several other noted sinologists and philosophers explore how the field of "Chinese philosophy" (Zhongguo Zhexue) was born and developed in the early decades of the twentieth century, examining its growth and relationship with European, American, and Japanese scholarship and philosophy. The work discusses an array of representative institutions and individuals, including FengYoulan, Fu Sinian, Hu Shi, Jin Yuelin, Liang Shuming, Nishi Amane, Tang Yongtong, Xiong Shili, Zhang Taiyan, and a range of Marxist philosophers. The epilogue discusses the intellectualhistorical significance of these figures and throws into relief how Zhongguozhexue is understood today.

Germany and Vocational Education in Republican China
Germany and Vocational Education in Republican China

Author: Henrike Rudolph

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3030949346

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This 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.

Keeping the Nation's House
Keeping the Nation's House

Author: Helen M. Schneider

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0774819995

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The term home economics often conjures images of sterile classrooms where girls learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation, one family at a time. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, home economists transformed the most fundamental of political spaces � the home � by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of the people.

"Kingdom-Minded" People

Author: Denise Austin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004204024

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This book explores how Christian identity motivated early twentieth century Chinese business Christians toward economic, social and religious contributions in China and beyond. Parallels are also revealed today, particularly through the influence of Pentecostal, charismatic and evangelical training.

Knowledge, Power, and Networks
Knowledge, Power, and Networks

Author: Cécile Armand

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-09-12

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9004520473

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This volume examines the formidable transformation of elites in China in the Republican period and how the redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites left a deep imprint on the rise of modern China up to this day.

Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China
Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China

Author: Michael H. K. Ng

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317674952

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"Practicing law" has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them. The book constitutes the first monographic work on the legal history of Republican Beijing, and provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the practice of law in the city of Beijing during a period of social transformation. Drawing upon unprecedented research using archived records and other primary materials, it explores the problems encountered by Republican Beijing’s legal practitioners, including lawyers, policemen, judges and criminologists, in applying transplanted laws and legal institutions when they were inapplicable to, incompatible with, or inadequate for resolving everyday legal issues. These legal practitioners resolved the mismatch, the author argues, by quite sensibly assimilating certain imperial laws and customs and traditional legal practices into the daily routines of the recently imported legal institutions. Such efforts by indigenous legal practitioners were crucial in, and an integral part of, the making of legal transplantation in Republican Beijing. This work not only makes significant contributions to scholarship on the legal history of modern China, but also offers insights into China’s quest for modernization in its first wave of legal globalization. It is thus of great value to legal historians, comparative legal scholars, specialists in Chinese law and China studies, and lawyers and law students with an interest in Chinese legal history.