Falanxi wenxue [La Littérature française] (1923) et le 4 Mai : historiographie, édition et modernité by Yang Zhen

“…The work is included in the “Small Encyclopedic Collection,” whose inspiration comes from Wang Yunwu, the editor-in-chief of the collection, reading The Encyclopædia Britannica [British Encyclopedia] in the late Qing Dynasty. The appearance of Falanxi wenxue in the collection is due to the personal relationship between Wang Yunwu and Yuan Changying, rather than a project to systematically introduce foreign literature into China. …”
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Ritual, Daoist Temple, and Geography: Spatial Interpretation of Wang Lingguan’s Belief by Zhaoquan He, Xiaorong Meng

“…The active involvement of the Ming royal family in building Daoist Temples significantly contributed to establishing regional belief centers for Wang Lingguan. During the Qing Dynasty, although Wang Lingguan’s royal patronage waned, his belief spread across most of China, becoming more localized and secularized. …”
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E.V. Bretschneider as a doctor and his personal archives: Chinese period by S.A. Silakova

“…However, they shed light on such little-studied aspects as the state of Chinese medicine in the second half of the 19th century and its development, Chinese terminology and the most common medicines, comparative analysis of the achievements of Chinese and European medical science of the period under consideration and the possibility of adopting treatment methods, some aspects of the history and geography of China and adjacent countries in the Middle Ages and modern times, the history of European botanical discoveries in China, as well as the life, traditions, and daily life of Chinese people during the late Qing Dynasty.…”
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The Historical Information of the Decorative Polychrome Painting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation Complex, Forbidden City by Hong Yang, Jiawei Xie, Lifang Ji

“…Combining information gained through on-site surveys and scaled drawings executed during a recent conservation project with evidence from historical records and other sources, this study finds that the remaining decorative polychrome painting can be dated to four different historical phases: the reign of the Jiajing emperor; the late Ming and early Qing dynasties; the reign of the Qianlong emperor; and the late Qing Dynasty and beginning of the Republic of China. …”
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The Mirror Image of Sino-Western in America’s First Work on Travel to China by Yang Jing

“…American travel writing on China, The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the First American Consul at Canton With a Life of the Author, not only reflects the image of China in the mid-Qing dynasty from a Western perspective, but also presents the self-conception and identity construction of early Americans. …”
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The Role of Chinese Family in the Spread of Christianity in the Seventeenth-Century China. The Xu Family of Shanghai as an Example by Piotr Adamek

“… Chinese family played a fundamental role in the spreading of Christianity in China during the Late Ming and Early Qing dynasty (17 century). The contact of the first Jesuit missionaries with Chinese people was usually limited to men, as e.g. …”
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Gender in 20th century Chinese society through Jin Yong’s novels Novels : how did gender representations in Jin Yong’s Chinese Martial Arts fiction novels reflect the change in gen... by Ang, Yi Lei

“…China’s society in the 20th century underwent drastic changes, beginning with the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of the Republic of China, to the later reformation as the People’s Republic of China. …”
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Hong Kong 1960 : inventing a gendered modernity through the Qipao by Rena Surash

“…The timeless and alluring cultural garment has evolved over the centuries; from an amorphous long robe donned by royalty during the Qing dynasty, to the fashion icon it is today. With specific reference to 1960 Hong Kong women, this essay explores a background of the ambivalent political and social landscape in post-war Hong Kong – before outlining the issues women face in the onset of Western modernisation while living in a traditional Asian society with strict codes of conduct. …”
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The Qianlong emperor’s letter to George III and the early-twentieth-century origins of ideas about traditional China’s foreign relations by Harrison, H

“…This article examines the famous edict in which the Qianlong emperor responded to the British embassy led by Lord Macartney to China in 1793, which has often been interpreted as a symbol of the Qing dynasty’s ignorance and narrow-mindedness. An examination of a wider range of archival documents suggests that the quotation does not reflect the Qianlong emperor’s response to the British embassy, which was primarily to see it as a security threat, but rather eighteenth-century British concerns with protocol and their influence on Chinese and Western scholars in the early twentieth century, when the letter first began to circulate widely. …”

谈李渔小说《丑郎君怕娇偏得艳》改写为 戏曲《奈何天》的艺术考量 = The study of the adaptation of the drama “Nai He Tian” from the novel “An ugly man is reluctant to marry a coquetry wife yet get a glamorous one i... by 温苑琪 Han, Yen Qi

“…Li Yu, one of the renowned playwright of Qing Dynasty, his dramas are featured by comedic, "Li Weng Shi Zhong Qu" is his masterpiece in drama. …”
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and the Changing Political Order of Northeastern Asia in the 17th Century by Meng Heng Lee

“…For decades, historians defined the ukanju, also known as taoren (逃人) in the Chinese-language archives of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911A.C.), as the Manchu’s ethnic Han-Chinese slaves or escapees. …”
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Combat and Collaboration: The Clash of Propaganda Prints between the Chinese Guomindang and the Japanese Empire in the 1930s-40s. by Shaoqian Zhang

“…This relationship shifted abruptly in the late nineteenth century with Japan’s rapid westernization and industrialization, which coincided with the cultural and political implosion of the Qing Dynasty, and was further inverted as Japan became a world power and China struggled to reassemble itself. …”
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An Encounter of Incommensurables: European Cosmological Knowledge in the Fenye Chapters of Chinese Local Gazetteers (1660-1820) by Wu Huiyi

“…However, the fenye chapters in Qing dynasty local gazetteers tell a different story: in comparison with earlier Ming gazetteers their proportion increased. …”
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Opinioni senza volto: il ruolo dell’autore nel genere del commento giornalistico in Cina by Emma Lupano

“…In China, the genre (Bhatia 1993) of news commentary has had a key role in the evolution of the country’s politics since the end of the 19th century, when modern journalism started to develop under the late Qing dynasty (De Giorgi 2001). In contemporary press, news commentaries (xinwen pinglun) can be divided into two main sub-genres: commentary on current affairs (shiping) and editorial (shelun ??). …”
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Western Classical Learning and the Protestant Missionaries: Revival in China and Korea in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Lihua Li, Jingyi Li, Lifang Zhu

“…It has been observed that since the Early Qing Dynasty, the eastward spread of Western classics has been in decline; this article aims to looks at how Protestant missionaries helped to revive it in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”
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Scientific Translations of “Da-xue” in 19th Century Russia: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches of Nikita Bichurin and Dmitry Sivillov by Miao Liu

“…Bichurin’s translation, based on a Qing dynasty educational resource, is distinguished by its rich commentary and cultural explanations. …”
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The Establishment of the Concept of Shu Yi and Its Significance in the History of Knowledge by Xinzhong YU, Yu TIAN

“…This statement is not accurate, because plague was prevalent in Yunnan and Guangdong provinces in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, people had already recognized the relationship between the outbreak of plague and the death of rats, and gradually named the epidemic disease as Shu Yi. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Traditional Chinese Color by Yushu Chen, Feng Gu

“…The red color best reflects the Qing Dynasty's cultural and emotional traits, and the blue hue best matches its aesthetic traits. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Traditional Chinese Color by Yushu Chen, Feng Gu

“…The red color best reflects the Qing Dynasty's cultural and emotional traits, and the blue hue best matches its aesthetic traits. …”
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The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet by Ling-Wei Kung

“…By investigating the Sixth Dalai Lama’s controversies, this article sheds light on how the Qing dynasty embarked on constructing its imperial enterprise in Inner Asia based on intelligence collection and information manipulation. …”
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