Modern Chinese History

General

Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger. Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (Third Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

de Bary, WM. Theodore. Sources of Chinese Tradition Volume 2: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Fenby, Jonathan. Modern China: The Fall and Rise of A Great Power, 1850 to the Present. New York: Harper Collins, 2008.

Hsü, Immanual C. Y. The Rise of Modern China. London: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Meisner, Maurice. Mao’s China and After: A History of the People’s Republic. New York: The Free Press, 1999.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990.

Wakeman Jr. Fredric. Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays. Lea H. Wakeman (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Debates on History and Theory

Huang, Philip C. C. “Theory and the Study of Modern Chinese History: Four Traps and A Question,” Modern China 24, No. 2 (April 1998): 183-208.

Duara, Prasenjit "Why is History anti-theoretical?" Modern China 24, No. 2 (April 1998): 105-120.

Hevia, James Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Book review of Hevia’s book, by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 57, No. 2 (Dec. 1997), 597-611.

Exchange between Esherick and Hevia:
1. Esherick, Joseph W. “Cherishing Sources from Afar” Modern China, 24, No. 2 (April 1998): 135-161.
2. Hevia, James L. “Postpolemical Historiography: A Response to Joseph W. Esherick,” Modern China 24, No.3 (Jul., 1998): 319-327.
3. Esherick, Joseph W. “Tradutore, Traditore: A Reply to James Hevia,” Modern China, 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1998): 328-332.

Orientalism and Chinese Historiography

Ahmad, Aijaz "Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Metropolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said" In Theory: Classes, Nations, and Literatures. New York: Verso, 1992.

Barlow, Tani. “Colonialisms Career in Post-War China Studies" Positions 1, No. 1 (1993): 224-67.

Cohen, Paul. Discovering History in China, American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Dirlik, Arif. “Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism” History and Theory 35, No. 4 (Dec. 1996): 96-118.

Dirlik, Arif “Postmodernism and Chinese History,” Boundary 2, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Autumn 2001): 19-60.

Rogawski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. University of California Press, 2004.

Young, Robert. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Problematics of “National” History

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London, Verso, 1991.

Duara, Prasenjit. “De-Constructing the Chinese Nation,” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 30 (Jul. 1993): 1-26.

Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Duara, Prasenjit. “Response to Philip Huang's ‘Biculturality in Modern China and in Chinese Studies,’"Modern China 26, No. 1 (Jan., 2000): 32-37.

Duara, Prasenjit. “Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty: China, 1900-1945,” American Historical Review 102, No. 4 (1997): 1030-1052.

Fitzgerald, John. Awakening China: Politics, Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Harrison, Henrietta. The Making of the Republican Citizen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Judge, Joan “Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth Century,” American Historical Review 106, No. 3 (2001): 765-803.

Karl, Rebecca. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Tturn of the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Rethinking of Gender and Studies of Chinese Women

Ko, Dorothy. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Ko, Dorothy. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Ko, Dorothy and Wang Zheng (Eds.) Translating Feminisms in China. London: Blackwell, 2007.

Mann, Susan. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Stevens, Sarah E. “Figuring Modernity: The New Woman and the Modern Girl in Republican China,” NWSA Journal 15, No. 3 (Autumn 2003): 82-103.

Teng, Jinhua Emma. “The Construction of the "Traditional Chinese Woman" in the Western Academy: A Critical Review,” Signs 22, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): 115-51.

History of Civil Society and Public Sphere in China

Goodman, Dena. “Public Sphere and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches to the Old Regime,” History and Theory 31 (Feb. 1992): 1-20.

Huang, Philip C. C. "’Public Sphere’/;Civil Society; in China?: The Third Realm between State and Society,” Modern China 19, No. 2 (Apr. 1993): 216-240.

Madsen, Richard. “The Public Sphere, Civil Society and Moral Community: A Research Agenda for Contemporary China Studies,” Modern China 19, No. 2 (Apr. 1993): 183-198.

Rankin, Mary Backus. “Some Observations on a Chinese Public Sphere” in Modern China 19, No. 2, Symposium: "Public Sphere"/"Civil Society" in China? Paradigmatic Issues in Chinese Studies, III (Apr., 1993): 158-182.

Rowe, William T. “The Problem of ‘Civil Society’ in Late Imperial China,” Modern China 19, No. 2 (April 1993), 139-57.

Rowe, William T. “The Public Sphere in Modern China The Public Sphere in Modern China,” Modern China 16, No. 3 (Jul., 1990): 309-329.

Wagner, Rudolf G. “The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere,” The China Quarterly, No. 142 (Jun. 1995): 423-443.

Wakeman Jr., Frederic. “Boundaries of the Public Sphere in Ming and Qing China,” Daedalus 127, No. 3, Early Modernities (Summer 1998): 167-189.

Wakeman Jr., Frederic. “The Civil Society and Public Sphere Debate: Western Reflections on Chinese Political Culture,” Modern China 19, No. 2 (Apr. 1993): 108-138.

The City as a Historical Text

Carroll, Peter J. Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Cochran, Sherman. Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. Ithaca: East Asia Program Cornell University, 1999.

Dray-Novey, Alison. "Spatial Order and Police in Imperial Beijing," The Journal of Asian Studies. 52:4 (1993), 885-922.

Esherick, Joseph W. (Ed.) Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Finane, Antonia. Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Johnson, Linda. "Review: New Approaches to Studying Chinese Cities," The Journal of Asian Studies 60: 2 (2001), 483-93.

Lu, Hanchao. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Meng, Yue. Shanghai and the Edges of Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Naquin, Susan. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Reed, Chris. Gutenberg in Shanghai. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Wang, Di. "Street Culture: Public Space and Urban Commoners in Late-Qing Chengdu, in Modern China 24:1 (1998), 34-72.

Yeh, Wen-Hsin. “Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China,” The American Historical Review 100, No. 1 (Feb., 1995): 97-122.

Zhang, Li. "Contesting Spatial Modernity in Late Socialist China," Current Anthropology 47:3 (2006), 461-82.

Zhang, Xudong. “Shanghai Image: Critical Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Un-Making of a Modern Chinese Mythology,” New Literary History 33, No. 1 (Winter 2002): 137-169.

History through Literature

Chow, Rey (Ed.). Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Ip, Hung-Yok, Tze-Ki Hon and Chiu-Chun Lee. “Review: The Plurality of Chinese Modernity: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the May Fourth Movemen,” Modern China 29, No. 4 (Oct., 2003): 490-509.

Liu, Lydia. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity – China, 1900-1937. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Lu, Sheldon H. “Waking to Modernity: The Classical Tale in Late-Qing China,” New Literary History 34, No. 4 (Autumn 2003): 745-760.

Shih Shu-mei, The Lure of the Modern. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Tang, Xiaobing. Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Wang, David. Fin-de-Siecle: Repressed Modernity in Late Qing Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Wang, David. Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

History of the Subjective (Affect/Emotion/Sensibility)

Hevia, James and Judith Farquhar, “Culture and Postwar Historiography of China.” Positions 1.2 (1993): 486-525.

Lean, Eugenia. Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Lee, Haiyan. Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Lee, Haiyan. “Tears That Crumbled the Great Wall: The Archaeology of Feeling in the May Fourth Folklore Movement,” The Journal of Asian Studies 64, No. 1 (Feb., 2005): 35-65.

Everyday Life and Material Culture

Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Cahill, James. The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Clunas, Craig. Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Dikotter, Frank. Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture of the 17th Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Lufrano, John. Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Zeitlin, Judith. “The Petrified Heart: Obsession in Chinese Literature, Art, and Medicine” Late Imperial China 12, No. 1 (1991): 1–26.

Zarrow, Peter (Ed.). Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge And Everyday Life 1900-1940. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Print Culture and the History of the Book/Reading/Authorship

Brokaw, Cynthia J. Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Brokaw, Cynthia J. and Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Chia, Lucille. Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Harrison, Henrietta. “Newspapers and Nationalism in Rural China 1890-1929,” Past & Present, No. 166 (Feb., 2000): 181-204.

Vittinghoff, Natascha “Readers, Publishers and Officials in the Contest for a Public Voice and the Rise of a Modern Press in Late Qing China (1860-1880),” T'oung Pao, Second Series, 87, Fasc. 4/5 (2001): 393-455.

Widmer, Ellen. “The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Publishing,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 56, No. 1 (Jun., 1996): 77-122.

Subaltern Studies

Chow, Rey. “How (the) Inscrutable Chinese Led to Globalized Theory,” PMLA 116, No. 1, Special Topic: Globalizing Literary Studies (Jan., 2001): 69-74.

Henriot, Christian. "From a Throne of Glory to a Seat of Ignominy: Shanghai Prostitution Revisited (1849-1949),” Modern China 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1996): 132-163.

Hershatter, Gail. “Courtesans and Streetwalkers: The Changing Discourses on Shanghai Prostitution, 1890-1949,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Oct., 1992), pp. 245-269.

Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Hershatter, Gail. “The Subaltern Talks Back: Reflection on Subaltern Theory and Chinese History,” Position 1, No.1 (1993): 103-130.

Ngo. “The Legend of a Colony: Political Rule and Historiography in Hong Kong,” China Information 12 (1997), 135-156.

Globalization and Chinese History

Huang, Phillip. “Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? – A review of Kenneth Pomeranz’s Great Divergence,” Journal of Asian Studies 61, No. 2 (May 2002), 609-662.

Ludden, David. “Modern Inequality and Early Modernity: A Comment for the AHR on Articles by R. Bin Wong and Kenneth Pomeranz,” American Historical Review 107 (2002): 470-80.

Parthasarathi, Prasannan. “Review Article: The Great Divergence,” Past & Present 176 (2002): 275-93.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. “Beyond the East-West Binary,” Journal of Asian Studies 61, No.2 (May 2002): 539-590.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture,” American Historical Review 107, No. 2 (April 2002): 425-46.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Wong, R. Bin. “The Search for European Differences and Domination in the Early Modern World: A View from Asia,” American Historical Review 107 (2002): 447-69.