Modern China articles

Recent articles from Modern China

Tradutore, traditore: a reply to James Hevia. (response to Hevia in this journal, p. 319)
July 1, 1998... I would Re to thank James Hevia for his "postpolemical" response to my article, "Cherishing Sources from Afar," and the editors of Modern China for permitting me the opportunity to reply. The exchange helps clarify the differences between Hevia and myself, differences that are illustrative...

Postpolemical historiography: a response to Joseph W. Esherick. (response to Esherick, Modern China, 1998)
July 1, 1998... In the previous issue of this journal, Joseph Esherick (1998) launched a critique of my book Cherishing Men from Afar (1995). In addition to pointing out errors in the glossary and questioning some translations of Qing sources,(1) he took issue with my interpretation of the embassy; he...

Chinese civic associations: an empirical analysis.
July 1, 1998... The emergence of civic associations in post-Mao China has attracted increasing interest from Chinese and Western scholars alike. Recent studies have focused on a wide range of issues concerning the concept of civil society in the Chinese context (Huang, 1993; Ma, 1994), the causes of the...

The formation and positioning of the New Culture community, 1913-1917.
July 1, 1998... Much has been written about the New Culture Movement of the late 1910s and early 1920s, but surprisingly little has been said about the way that movement came into being. Indeed, it is customary to date the beginning of the New Culture Movement from Chen Duxiu's September 1915 founding of...

From imperial gardens to public parks: the transformation of urban space in early twentieth-century Beijing.
July 1, 1998... Historians of modem China have recently discovered the expansion of a public sphere in late imperial and early republican Chinese society. The works of Mary Rankin (1986) and William Rowe (1984, 1989), for example, focusing on late imperial Zhejiang and Hankou, respectively, point to...