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Book Requires Authentication 1989

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981

David Zweig

Volume 102 in this series

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During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move rural China to even higher stages of collectivism. David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. The limited institutionalization of the system allowed the radicals to promote their principles through "policy winds," speeches generated by newspaper articles, networks of political allies, and organized visits; they also linked their policies to ongoing political and economic campaigns. In spite of this radical ideology and frequent upheavals in the countryside, Zweig finds that Chinese peasants had no ideological affinity for Mao's theory of the continuing revolution and reacted to each policy change on the basis of how it affected their personal, family, or collective interests. Despite intense propaganda, cadres adjusted the impact of these radical policies so that the peasants' conservative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to improve their own lot remained intact.

Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434967
ISBN:: 9780674434950
ISBN:: 9780674434967
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1983

Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam

Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Volume 99 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674433700
ISBN:: 9780674433694
ISBN:: 9780674433700
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1982

Ding Ling’s Fiction

Ideology and Narrative in Modern Chinese Literature

Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker

Volume 98 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674183919
ISBN:: 9780674183896
ISBN:: 9780674183919
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1981

Chinese Village Politics in the Malaysian State

Judith Strauch

Volume 95 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594586
ISBN:: 9780674594562
ISBN:: 9780674594586
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1981

The Chinese Vernacular Story

Patrick Hanan

Volume 94 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418462
ISBN:: 9780674418448
ISBN:: 9780674418462
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
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China’s Development Experience in Comparative Perspective

Robert F. Dernberger

Volume 114 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674367388
ISBN:: 9780674367371
ISBN:: 9780674367388
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1979

Passage to Power

K'ang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661-1722

Silas H. L. Wu

Volume 91 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434684
ISBN:: 9780674434677
ISBN:: 9780674434684
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1977

The Broken Wave

The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928

Jr. Roy Hofheinz

Volume 90 in this series

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This book is a sophisticated and deeply researched volume on Mao Tse-tung's early leadership and on the formative years of the Chinese Communist Peasant movement. It has been axiomatic in Asian studies that knowledge of the early years of Chinese communism would throw the most light on modern happenings. In this landmark volume, Hofheinz provides the much-needed map for understanding.

Hofheinz shows how the rural revolution began, dissects with exquisite care the mentalities of the first leaders, and assesses the early gropings of peasant revolutionaries toward class struggle. He explains why Mao and others came to believe that the huge rural population was the most powerful force in China and that warfare against any visible enemies constituted progress for the Communist cause. Yet the first Chinese Communists failed miserably both as members of the Kuomintang coalition and on their own.

The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. Mao and his followers shaped every decision in later years to avoid the errors of the past. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418578
ISBN:: 9780674418561
ISBN:: 9780674418578
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1977

Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895–1945

E. Patricia Tsurumi

Volume 88 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434080
ISBN:: 9780674434073
ISBN:: 9780674434080
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
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Book Requires Authentication 1976

Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916–1952

Philip West

Volume 85 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863064
ISBN:: 9780674862913
ISBN:: 9780674863064
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education Systems
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Book Requires Authentication 1976

The Limits of Change

Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China

Charlotte Furth

Volume 84 in this series

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The Limits of Change disputes the impression that the conservative ideas and styles of China's Republican period were neither strong nor persuasive enough to counter the ideas or the revolution of Mao. As the contributors to the book point out, these conservative movements reflected a modern outlook and shared a framework of common concepts with the radical movements they opposed.

In these essays we see the broad range of responses that conservatism in the Republican period took--from a new nativist historical consciousness, to quasi-Fascist theories of political mobilization, to efforts at a revival of Confucianism as a moral faith. Individual writers analyze the early Republican National Essence movement, the new Confucian humanism of the 1920s and afterwards, political ideology under Republican military dictatorships, and the ideas of modern literary conservatives. Two major interpretive essays place Chinese trends in the context of worldwide conservative responses to industrialization, political modernism, and the challenge of secularism. Through its far-reaching, detailed, and sympathetic assessment of the role of conservative ideology in China's modern intellectual experience, Limits of Change makes a distinguished contribution to Chinese studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332966
ISBN:: 9780674332959
ISBN:: 9780674332966
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1974

Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896-1911

Don C. Price

Volume 79 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434981
ISBN:: 9780674434974
ISBN:: 9780674434981
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1974

A Study of Samurai Income and Entrepreneurship

Quantitative Analyses of Economic and Social Aspects of the Samurai in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

Kozo Yamamura

Volume 76 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434707
ISBN:: 9780674434691
ISBN:: 9780674434707
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1974

Chinese Ways in Warfare

Jr. Frank A. Kierman, John K. Fairbank, Edward L. Dreyer, Herbert Franke, Charles O. Hucker, Michael Loewe, Frederick W. Mote, Charles A. Peterson

Volume 74 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182059
ISBN:: 9780674182042
ISBN:: 9780674182059
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1973

Land Taxation in Imperial China, 1750–1911

Yeh-chien Wang

Volume 73 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674437258
ISBN:: 9780674437265
ISBN:: 9780674437258
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: Political Economics, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1973

The Romantic Generation of Chinese Writers

Leo Ou-fan Lee

Volume 71 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674492783
ISBN:: 9780674492776
ISBN:: 9780674492783
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
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Book Requires Authentication 1973

Mori Arinori

Ivan Parker Hall

Volume 68 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674284784
ISBN:: 9780674284777
ISBN:: 9780674284784
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
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Book Requires Authentication 1972

The Peace Conspiracy

Wang Ching-wei and the China War, 1937-1941

Gerald E. Bunker

Volume 67 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674731325
ISBN:: 9780674731004
ISBN:: 9780674731325
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1972

Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China

Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

Volume 66 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674428782
ISBN:: 9780674428072
ISBN:: 9780674428782
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Korean Village

Between Farm and Sea

Vincent S.R. Brandt

Volume 65 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674734074
ISBN:: 9780674734067
ISBN:: 9780674734074
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1971

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China, 1890-1907

Hao Chang

Volume 64 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674732407
ISBN:: 9780674732391
ISBN:: 9780674732407
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838-1922

Roger F. Hackett

Volume 60 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674284593
ISBN:: 9780674284586
ISBN:: 9780674284593
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
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Book Requires Authentication 1971

Monarchy in the Emperors Eye

Image and Reality in the Ch'ien-lung Reign

Harold L. Kahn

Volume 59 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674181434
ISBN:: 9780674181427
ISBN:: 9780674181434
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism

Germany in Shantung

John E. Schrecker

Volume 58 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865785
ISBN:: 9780674865778
ISBN:: 9780674865785
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1971

Volume II Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921–1965, Volume II: Lo Jui-ch'ing – Yun Tai-ying

Part of the multi-volume work Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921–1965

Volume 57 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674598904
ISBN:: 9780674289604
ISBN:: 9780674598904
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1971

Volume I Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921–1965, Volume I: Ai Szu-ch'i – Lo I-nung

Part of the multi-volume work Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921–1965

Volume 57 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674598898
ISBN:: 9780674289598
ISBN:: 9780674598898
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1970

Social Reformers in Urban China

The Chinese Y.M.C.A., 1895-1926

Shirley S. Garrett

Volume 56 in this series

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During the years before the advent of the Nationalist regime in China, a public concern for social welfare took shape. The cry for reform and the need for energies with which to meet the new demands of urban life opened the way for the Y.M.C.A. and other Western institutions to influence the course of change.

In this volume Garrett presents the impressive early history of the Y.M.C.A. in China, an organization which, during the first quarter of the twentieth century, became that country's most prominent private agency of social planning.

The men who went to China as Y.M.C.A. personnel were a new breed, infused not only with a sense of service but also with qualities of practicality and flexibility that enabled them to appreciate another culture. The author interviewed many ex-Y.M.C.A. China hands and combed a variety of archives to complete this inside account of the missionary origins of, and Chinese participation and leadership in, the Chinese Y.M.C.A. In describing its many constructive measures of reform, she covers the Y's formation of the first youth association in the country, its pioneer work in education, health, and welfare programs, and its promotion of community-wide urban action. What emerges is a portrait of a reform-minded institution, eager to respond to the needs of students and workers, but fearful that revolutionary change might alter its identity beyond recognition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674281547
ISBN:: 9780674281530
ISBN:: 9780674281547
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1971

Kuo Mo-jo

The Early Years

David Tod Roy

Volume 55 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674432338
ISBN:: 9780674432321
ISBN:: 9780674432338
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Chang Chih-tung and Educational Reform in China

William Ayers

Volume 54 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674280298
ISBN:: 9780674280281
ISBN:: 9780674280298
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration

Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead

Volume 53 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674729452
ISBN:: 9780674729438
ISBN:: 9780674729452
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1970

Communication and Imperial Control in China

Evolution of the Palace Memorial System, 1693-1735

Silas H. L. Wu

Volume 51 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434660
ISBN:: 9780674434653
ISBN:: 9780674434660
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1971

Early Chinese Revolutionaries

Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902–1911

Mary Backus Rankin

Volume 50 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863644
ISBN:: 9780674863637
ISBN:: 9780674863644
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1970

Japanese Tradition and Western Law

Emperor, State, and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka

Richard H. Minear

Volume 48 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182554
ISBN:: 9780674182547
ISBN:: 9780674182554
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Law
Subject:: Law, other
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Book Requires Authentication 1970

Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance

Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937

Jerome B. Grieder

Volume 46 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674284043
ISBN:: 9780674284036
ISBN:: 9780674284043
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
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Book Requires Authentication 1970

The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China

Bridge between East and West

Yen-p'ing Hao

Volume 45 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182783
ISBN:: 9780674182776
ISBN:: 9780674182783
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1970

Motoori Norinaga, 1730-1801

1730–1801

Shigeru Matsumoto

Volume 44 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674186309
ISBN:: 9780674186293
ISBN:: 9780674186309
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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The Manchurian Frontier in Ch'Ing History

Robert H. G. Lee

Volume 43 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674430709
ISBN:: 9780674430617
ISBN:: 9780674430709
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1970

Ting Wen-chiang

Science and China's New Culture

Charlotte Furth

Volume 42 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332980
ISBN:: 9780674332973
ISBN:: 9780674332980
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1980

Canton under Communism

Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital, 1949–1968

Volume 41 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674366275
ISBN:: 9780674366268
ISBN:: 9780674366275
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1970

Asian Ideas of East and West

Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India

Stephen N. Hay

Volume 40 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674492387
ISBN:: 9780674492370
ISBN:: 9780674492387
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1969

The Failure of Freedom

A Portrait of Modern Japanese Intellectuals

Tatsuo Arima

Volume 39 in this series

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An excellent introduction to Japanese intellectual history in the first third of the twentieth century, this is a study of the intellectual atmosphere that made the development of a constitutional form of government difficult. As heirs to the Meiji Restoration, modern Japanese intellectuals were trapped by the historical paradox that modern Japan was born not so much of the victory of the new forces over the old, as of the skillful self-transformation of the old forces themselves. To reject parts of new Japanese society often meant to reject the whole of it.

Tatsuo Arima examines the period's philosophical and religious writings and the main literary figures and groups and their works and theories about literature. He finds a widespread anticonstitutional mentality and relates it to the intellectuals' political behavior. In particular, he analyzes the reasons why prewar Japanese intellectuals, who seemed to be so opposed to the rise of nationalism, took no socially effective action to prevent its emergence and subsequently became its victims.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674280113
ISBN:: 9780674280106
ISBN:: 9780674280113
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1969

Radical Nationalist in Japan

Kita Ikki, 1883–1937

George M. Wilson

Volume 37 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863088
ISBN:: 9780674863071
ISBN:: 9780674863088
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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The Rhetoric of Empire

American China Policy, 1895–1901

Marilyn Blatt Young

Volume 36 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434899
ISBN:: 9780674434882
ISBN:: 9780674434899
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan

Peter Duus

Volume 35 in this series

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One of the most striking aspects of Japan's prewar constitutional development is the establishment of two-party politics during the early years of this century. Peter Duus presents a comprehensive analysis of this important but little-explored phase of Japanese political history. In contrast with previous accounts, Duus examines the tactical and policy objectives of the party politicians within the context of their own limited aims rather than in terms of their failure to fulfill democratic ideals. The end result of these politicians' efforts, he points out, is that party government, sustained by a period of relative peace and prosperity, became a political reality in Japan for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674330672
ISBN:: 9780674330665
ISBN:: 9780674330672
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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Book Requires Authentication 1968

Traditional Medicine in Modern China

Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Change

Ralph C. Croizier

Volume 34 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674430686
ISBN:: 9780674430679
ISBN:: 9780674430686
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1968

The Chinese World Order

Traditional China's Foreign Relations

John King Fairbank, Ta-tuan Ch'en, Hae-jong Chun, John K. Fairbank, David Farquhar, Joseph F. Fletcher, Truong Buu Lam, Mark Mancall, Robert K. Sakai, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chusei Suzuki, Wang Gungwu, Jr. John E. Wills, Lien-sheng Yang

Volume 32 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674333482
ISBN:: 9780674333475
ISBN:: 9780674333482
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1967

Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905–1915

Tetsuo Najita

Volume 31 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674429048
ISBN:: 9780674429031
ISBN:: 9780674429048
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1967

Literary Dissent in Communist China

Merle Goldman

Volume 29 in this series

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In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's.

By singling out individual writers as egregious examples, party leaders, through a series of thought-control campaigns, have tried to mold intellectuals along orthodox doctrinal lines. But these same leaders, holding to the paradoxical conviction that personal initiative and creativity are necessary catalysts in the effort to construct a Communist state, have not wanted to stifle these qualities altogether. The result has been a pattern of permissiveness and pressure, as illustrated by the ill-fated "Hundred Flowers" movement and the subsequent return to a policy of harsh regimentation.

In depicting the views, feelings, frustrations, and tragic fates of many individual intellectuals in the confrontation with an oppressive party bureaucracy, the author reveals, in an unprecedented way, the nature of the authoritarian society that has evolved in Communist China. Her study convincingly demonstrates that totalitarian rule has not guaranteed the subservience of the Chinese intelligentsia and, even more important, that the alienated, critical intellectual remains a significant and vital force.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674188839
ISBN:: 9780674188822
ISBN:: 9780674188839
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1967

Pa Chin and His Writings

Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions

Olga Lang

Volume 28 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674493346
ISBN:: 9780674493322
ISBN:: 9780674493346
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1967

Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism

Maurice Meisner

Volume 27 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674180819
ISBN:: 9780674180802
ISBN:: 9780674180819
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
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China’s Struggle for Naval Development, 1839–1895

John L. Rawlinson

Volume 25 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863668
ISBN:: 9780674863651
ISBN:: 9780674863668
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868-1900

George Akita

Volume 23 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674729391
ISBN:: 9780674729346
ISBN:: 9780674729391
Subject:: Law
Subject:: Law, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937

Chi-ming Hou

Volume 21 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182479
ISBN:: 9780674182455
ISBN:: 9780674182479
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1965

China's Wartime Finance and Inflation, 1937-1945

Arthur N. Young

Volume 20 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434875
ISBN:: 9780674434868
ISBN:: 9780674434875
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1845–1895

Frank H. H. King

Volume 19 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674498280
ISBN:: 9780674498273
ISBN:: 9780674498280
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1964

The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan

Johannes Hirschmeier

Volume 17 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674184336
ISBN:: 9780674184312
ISBN:: 9780674184336
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1964

China and the West, 1858-1861

The Origins of the Tsungli Yamen

Masataka Banno

Volume 15 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674280564
ISBN:: 9780674280557
ISBN:: 9780674280564
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1964

The United States and the Far East Crisis of 1933–1938

From the Manchurian Incident through the Initial Stage of the Undeclared Sino-Japanese War

Dorothy Borg

Volume 14 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733442
ISBN:: 9780674733435
ISBN:: 9780674733442
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1963

China and the Helping Hand, 1937–1945

Arthur N. Young

Volume 12 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434851
ISBN:: 9780674434844
ISBN:: 9780674434851
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Requires Authentication 1963

China and Christianity

The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870

Paul A. Cohen

Volume 11 in this series

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In February 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the American Society of International Law organized a study panel of legal scholars, social scientists, lawyers, and government officials to consider problems relating to "China and International Order." The panel was founded in the belief that the turmoil in China would not endure and that the People's Republic might soon wish to participate fully in the world community. To prepare for this day, the panel commissioned and reviewed a number of studies of China's interpretation and application of international law.

The ten essays in this volume-written by twelve scholars including Mr. Cohen, who has also written a substantial introduction are the fruit of this effort. Four of the essays deal with basic problems relating to Peking's international conduct: recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations, the regulation of foreign diplomats serving in China, manipulation of the concept of "unequal treaties," and the PRC's conditions for participation in international organizations. The other six essays focus on legal problems that have arisen in China's relations with a given country or international organization.