1st Edition

Imperialism and China 1800-1945 CC 4V

Edited By Ralph Huenemann
    1570 Pages
    by Routledge

    The history of imperialism in China is a complex, contentious history. In modern times, China’s experience with imperialism has entailed two parallel stories during the 19th and 20th centuries—stories that are different in their geographic location, in their motivations, and in their outcomes. The facet of imperialism that has received the most attention is that of aggression against China by capitalist nations, culminating in the Japanese invasion of the 1930s. This story evolved in a low-key way before the 19th century, but then entered a more aggressive phase with military action by the British in the First Opium War (1839-1842). Both economic issues and cultural issues have received attention in this story, and are thoroughly explored in two volumes of this Major Work.

    The simultaneous story of Qing Imperialism in Eurasia (stretching from Tibet through Central Asia and Mongolia around to Korea), as explored in the third volume, entailed a multilateral rivalry, with China, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan jockeying for position. Again, the origins lay well before the 19th century, and again significant military action was important—in this case, led primarily by the Han (Chinese) official Zuo Zongtang on behalf of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty. An important aspect of this second story is that the territories in dispute were inhabited by non-Han peoples. For the most part, Chinese writings do not treat this episode as an example of imperialism, much as American history books do not generally treat the incorporation of the swath of Mexican territory from Texas to California into the United States as an act of imperialism. This reference work gathers together in one place a multitude of academic sources on the history of imperialism and China, providing an essential overview of the many sides of the topic.

    Volume I

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

     

    1. Hu Sheng, ‘Establishment of New Relationships (1840-1864)’, in Imperialism and Chinese Politics (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1955), pp. 7-54.

    2. Wang Dong, ‘Tracing the Contours of the Unequal Treaties in Imperial China, 1840-1911’, in China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2005), pp. 9-34.

    3. Mark C. Elliott, ‘Introduction: The Problem with the Manchus’, in The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), pp. 1-35.

    4. Prasenjit Duara, ‘Introduction’, in Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press), pp. 3-16.

    5. S. C. M. Paine, extract from ‘The Cultural Dimensions of the Sino-Japanese War’, in The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 333-339, 357-366.

    6. Zheng Wang, extract from ‘National Humiliation, History Education, and the Politics of Historical Memory: Patriotic Education Campaign in China’, International Studies Quarterly 52, 4, 2008, 788-794, 799-805.

    7. William H. Callahan, ‘National Insecurities: Humiliation, Salvation, and Chinese Nationalism’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29, 2, 2004, 199-218.

    8. Pär Kristoffer Cassel, ‘Codifying Extraterritoriality: The Chinese "Unequal Treaties"’, in Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 39-62.

    9. Turan Kayaoğlu, ‘Positive Law and Sovereignty’, in Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 17-39.

    10. Daniel H. Bays, ‘Protestant Beginnings, Catholics Redux, and China’s First Indigenous Christians, 1800-1860’, in A New History of Christianity in China (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 41-61.

    11. Kuang-sheng Liao, ‘The Anti-Missionary Movements and Antiforeignism, 1860-1900’, in Antiforeignism and Modernization in China, 1860-1980: Linkage between Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984), pp. 39-51.

    12. Paul A. Cohen, extract from ‘Christianity as Heterodoxy’, in China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism 1860-1870 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963), pp. 43-47, 48-52, 58-60.

    13. Paul A. Cohen, ‘Boxers, Christians and the Gods: The Boxer Conflict of 1900 as a Religious War’, in China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 105-125.

    14. Connie Shemo, ‘Directions in Scholarship on American Women and Protestant Foreign Mission: Debates over "Cultural Imperialism", History Compass 10, 3, 2012, 270-283.

    15. Motoe Sasaki, ‘American New Women Encountering China: The Politics of Temporality and Paradoxes of Imperialism, 1898-1927’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 10, 1, 2009, 1-14.

    16. Robert Bickers, ‘Boundary Maintenance’, extract from Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900-1949 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. 95-104.

    17. Eric T.L. Love, extract from ‘Hawaii Annexed’, in Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 148-156.

    18. W. Somerset Maugham, extracts from On a Chinese Screen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 57-59, 131-133, 144-146, and 211-213.

    19. Robert Bickers, ‘Adrift in the Empire World’, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (London: Penguin Books, 2003), pp. 223-233 and 239-240.

    20. Han Suyin, Extract from The Crippled Tree (St. Albans UK: Panther Publishing, 1972), pp. 181-190.

     

    Volume II

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    21. Mao Tse-tung, ‘Present-Day Colonial, Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal Society’, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. II (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967), pp. 309-314.

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    26. Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, ‘Turbulent Century: China Confronts the Industrial Revolution, 1840-1939’, extract from ‘From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China’s Economic Boom’, Journal of Economic Literature 52, 1, 2014, 80-92.

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    30. Hou Chi-ming, ‘Introduction, A Dualistic Economy, and Summary and Conclusion’, in Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China 1840-1937 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 1-6, 165-188 and 211-222.

    31. Victor D. Lippit, ‘The Development of Underdevelopment in China’, Modern China 4, 3, 1978, 299-323.

    32. Keith Griffin, ‘The Roots of Underdevelopment: Reflections on the Chinese Experience’, Modern China 4, 3, 1978, 351-357.

    33. Carl Riskin, Discussion and Comments on Underdevelopment, Modern China 4, 3, 1978, 359-376.

    34. Sherman Cochran, ‘Conclusion: Imperialism, Nationalism and Entrepreneurship’, in Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930 (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 201-220.

    35. Roberta Allbert Dayer, ‘Introduction’, in Bankers and Diplomats in China 1917-1925: The Anglo-American Relationship (London: Frank Cass, 1981), pp. xiii-xxvii.

    36. Albert Feuerwerker, ‘Handicraft and Manufactured Cotton Textiles in China, 1871-1910’, The Journal of Economic History 30, 2, 1970, 338-378.

    37. Lillian M. Li, ‘Conclusion’, in China’s Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press), 1981, pp. 197-206.

    38. Robert Y. Eng, Extracts from Economic Imperialism in China: Silk Production and Exports, 1861-1932 (Berkeley CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1986), pp. 4-16 and 181-196.

    39. Alvin Y. So, ‘Conclusion’, in The South China Silk District: Local Historical Transformation and World-System Theory (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986), pp. 155-164.

     

    Volume III

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    40. Barbara Emerson, ‘The Celestial Empire’, in Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979), pp. 215-231.

    41. Lloyd E. Eastman, ‘France in Vietnam and China’s Initial Responses’, in Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policyduring the Sino-French Controversy 1880-1885 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1967), pp. 30-44.

    42. Robert Lee, ‘France and China in the Nineteenth Century’, in France and the Exploitation of China, 1885-1901: A Study of Economic Imperialism (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 1-25.

    43. D. Gagnier, ‘French Loans to China 1895-1914: The Alliance of International Finance and Diplomacy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History 18, 2, 1972, 229-249.

    44. John E. Schrecker, ‘The Acquisition of the German Sphere of Influence’, in Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 1-42.

    45. Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst, ‘Chancellor von Hohenlohe Advises Wilhelm II to Take His Share of China, 1895’, in Louis L. Snyder (ed.), The Imperialism Reader: Documents and Readings on Modern Expansionism (Port Washington NY: Kennikat Press, 1973). pp. 297-303.

    46. Kaiser Wilhelm II, ‘Wilhelm II Calls for Use of Mailed Fist, 1897’, in Louis L. Snyder (ed.), The Imperialism Reader: Documents and Readings on Modern Expansionism (Port Washington NY: Kennikat Press, 1973). pp. 301-303.

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    49. Peter Duss, ‘Japan’s Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview’, in Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie (eds), The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. xi-xxviii.

    50. Timothy Brook, ‘The Family Letters of Dr Robert Wilson’ and ‘Judgement of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East’, excerpts from Timothy Brook (ed.), Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999), pp. 212-220 and 257-261.

    51. Peipei Qiu, ‘Japan’s Aggressive War and the Military "Comfort Women" System’ and ‘The MASS Abduction of Chinese Women’, in Qiu Peipei, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei, Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2013), pp. 21-49.

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    53. Immanuel C.Y. Hsü, ‘Introduction’ in The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy 1871-1881 (Oxford UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 1-15.

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    57. Jacques M. Downs, ‘American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840’, The Business History Review 42.4, 1968, 418-442.

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    Volume IV

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

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