[PDF] Self Strengthening And Restoration eBook

Author : Luke A. Franks
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1535866535

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Self-Strengthening Movements in East Asia and the Pacific is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0029336805

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From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline. From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."

Author : Humphrey Ko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9811026602

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This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China serve to illuminate key aspects of Chinese political economy and illustrate the importance of legal frameworks in the emergence of industrial enterprises. Examining the centrality of legal personality in China’s historical story, seen from the angle of cement manufacturing corporations, it offers an alternative historical perspective on the making of the modern Chinese States and delves into the involvement of larger-than-life historical figures of modern China such as Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek and the revolutionary and the father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, in the unfolding of these events.

Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231120302

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This collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectuals and public figures in Korea have looked at life, the traditions of their ancestors, and the world they lived in.

Author : W. Beasley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1972-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804779906

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First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the Western powers prompt changes in Japan that would not otherwise have taken place? Or did they merely hasten a process that had already begun? Similarly, did Western civilization give a new direction to Japanese development, or do no more than provide the outward forms through which indigenous change could manifest itself? Was it a matrix, or only a shopping list? Second, how far was the evolution of modern Japan in some sense "inevitable"? Were the main features of Meiji society already implicit in the Tempo reforms, only awaiting an appropriate trigger to bring them into being? More narrowly, was the character of Meiji institutions determined by the social composition of the anti-Tokugawa movement, or did it derive from a situation that took shape only after the Bakufu was overthrown? This is to pose the problem of the relationship between day-to-day politics and long-term socioeconomic change. One can argue, paraphrasing Toyama, that the political controversy about foreign affairs provided the means by which basic socioeconomic factors became effective; or one can say, with Sakata, that the relevance of socioeconomic change is that it helped to decide the manner in which the fundamentally political ramifications of the foreign question were worked out. The difference of emphasis is significant. Finally, have recent historians, in their preoccupation with other issues, lost sight of something important in their relative neglect of ideas qua ideas? Ought we perhaps to stop treating loyalty to the Emperor as simply a manifestation of something else? After all, the men whose actions are the object of our study took that loyalty seriously enough, certainly as an instrument of politics, if not as an article of faith.

Author : Albert Feuerwerker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1961-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1684171423

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The authors list and briefly describe nearly 500 books on modern Chinese history published in Communist China between 1949 and 1959. Includes an introductory essay.

Author : Chai-Shin Yu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 1462055591

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This book "explores the existence of a distinctive Korean culture established by the Korean people and separate from its Chinese and Japanese counterparts. [The author] surveys the history of cultural life in Korea and provides a detailed account of this country's remarkable heritage ... Written for the purpose of introducing the roots of Korean culture to Westerners and second-generation Koreans living in the West."--P. [4] of cover.