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Book review: The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China
Published 2024-06-01“…Book review: The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China by Peter Thilly, 2022, Stanford University Press.…”
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Contested centenary: remembering the May Fourth movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities
Published 2022“…Many readers are probably familiar with the historical narrative of the so-called ‘century of humiliation’ that commenced with the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842. This relevance of history in China goes beyond a mere case of ‘using the past to serve the present’, however: long before the ascent of Mao Zedong, it was believed that one could ‘know the future in the mirror of the past’ (jianwang zhilai). …”
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Sages, smokers, sojourners : the religion of the void in China and Southeast Asia
Published 2021“…The Zhenkongjiao 真空教, alias the Great Way Within Emptiness 空中大道, refers to a Chinese religious movement whose emergence in twentieth-century southeast China and Southeast Asia was characterized by its rehabilitation of opium-addicts with meditation regimes and tea-drinking rituals. …”
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Accounting and Statistics in China Under the Qing Dynasty
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Chinese Christian Community in Modern Singapore: The Case of the Jubilee Church, 1883–1942
Published 2024-10-01“…Particularly, by establishing the Singapore Reading Room, participating in the founding of the Anti-Opium Society and the Chinese Kindergarten, the Jubilee Church played an important role in Singapore’s history, contributing to the modernization of Singapore in terms of advancing ideas, improving social order, and promoting education. …”
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Japan and China: Mutual Perception of Recent Historical Experience through the Prism of the West-East Opposition
Published 2023-12-01“…The chronological framework of the study thus covers the period starting from the “Opium Wars” in China and the Meiji Restoration in Japan, makes a focus on the war of 1937–1945, which is viewed as the culmination of the crisis in bilateral relations, and ends with the current situation, when both countries are still trying to comprehend this difficult period of their history. …”
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Institutional mosaic of financial institutions in the late Qing China and synthesis of organizational forms: from piaohao and qianzhuang to the central bank
Published 2023-12-01“…By the time of the Chinese economy “forced opening” by Western powers during the Opium Wars, China had its own quasi-banking institutions based on the established clan networks of trade organizations that covered the credit needs of the traditional economy. …”
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From Hai Yao, Yang Yao to Xi Yao: Sinification of Material Medical from the West
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Spatial Expansion, Planning, and Their Influences on the Urban Landscape of Christian Churches in Canton (1582–1732 and 1844–1911)
Published 2024-09-01“…Canton (present-day Guangzhou, China) has a long history as a trading port and serves as a window for studying the history of Sino-Western cultural exchanges. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler
Published 2024-12-01“…By drawing comparisons to similar processes in Turkish political history, Ulusoy seeks to understand China's modern political developments. …”
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CHALLENGING THE PALATE AND THE MIND. INTRODUCING WESTERN BAKING VOCABULARY INTO CHINESE
Published 2024-03-01“…Although the Chinese cuisine was already very rich and refined, with a complex vocabulary, dessert had never been an integral part of a traditional meal, and, in fact, there was no specific word for it. After China’s defeat in the two Opium Wars, in the mid-19th century, the increasing foreign presence on Chinese soil meant both an increase in demand for cooks able to satisfy the dietary needs of the Westerners, and of restaurants serving Western food, especially in cities with foreign concessions, like Shanghai, where dining in such a place had become very “modern”. …”
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Translation and the British colonial mission : the career of Samuel Turner Fearon and the establishment of Chinese studies at King's college, London
Published 2015“…Nevertheless, Samuel Fearon did indeed play a very significant role in Sino-British relations due to his ability as an interpreter and his knowledge of China. He was not only an interpreter in the first Opium War (1839–1842) but was also a colonial civil servant and senior government official in British Hong Kong when the colonial government started to take shape after the war. …”
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