From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise / edited by Friederike Assandri and Dora Martins.

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TextSeries: ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; ; 7.Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations, chartContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789048501458
9048501458

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise.DDC classification:

951 22

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DS736 .F76 2009eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Inter-religious Debate at the Court of the Early Tang: An Introduction to Daoxuan's Ji gujin Fo Dao lunheng / Friederike Assandri -- Social Crises and Political Reform during the Jiaqing Reign of Qing China, 1796-1810s / Wensheng Wang -- 'China' on Display at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893: Faces of Modernization in the Contact Zone / Yuki Ooi -- Christianity and State-Building in Republican Chaozhou, South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- The Structure of Salt Distribution in Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Tsu-yu Chen -- Semi-Colonialism and Cultural Interaction: Chinese Indentured Labor in World War One France and the Sino-French Connection / Paul J. Bailey -- China's Rise: Some Considerations / Dora Martins -- A Snapshot of Internet Regulation in Contemporary China: Censorship, Profitability and Responsibility / Jinqiu Zhao.

Summary: "This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events as different as the inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the China display on the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Christianity and state-building in Chaozhou, the Taiwan salt trade, Chinese indentured labour in World War I in France, China's rise and current internet regulation. This book highlights the complexity of multi-level interaction of different agents in the center and periphery of China, inside and outside China, contributing to intellectual debates, political and social dynamics, economy structure, modernization, identity building and interaction with the outside"--Publisher's description.

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"This volume offers a selection of papers that were presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars 2005 in Shanghai and in 2007 in Kuala Lumpur"--Page [9].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events as different as the inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the China display on the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Christianity and state-building in Chaozhou, the Taiwan salt trade, Chinese indentured labour in World War I in France, China's rise and current internet regulation. This book highlights the complexity of multi-level interaction of different agents in the center and periphery of China, inside and outside China, contributing to intellectual debates, political and social dynamics, economy structure, modernization, identity building and interaction with the outside"--Publisher's description.