Mary Backus Rankin
Biographic Data
| ID | 313414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Backus Rankin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Backus |
| FAMILY NAME | Rankin |
| SIGNATURE | RANKIN M B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, a…
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Alarming Crises/Enticing Possibilities
Alarming Crises/Enticing PossibilitiesPolitical and Cultural Changes in Late Nineteenth-Century China Mary Backus Rankin (bio) The years from the mid-1880s provided a tumultuous ending to China's turbulent nineteenth century. However disjointed this period appears, it was a pivotal time when growing numbers of China's scholar-elites began to question the Confucian heritage and imperial governance. Here I will emphasize two aspects of political an…
Peking
Introducing Peking 2. Gods and Clerics 3. Communities and Public Space PART TWO: MING PEKING 4. A New Capital 5. Imperial Peking 6. Urban Communities 7. Late Ming Associations 8. Seeing the Sights PART THREE: QING PEKING 9. 1644: Partition and Transition 10. The Imperial World 11. New Divisions 12. Reintegration 13. The Sights of Qing Peking 14. Religious Associations 15. Temples and Private Purposes 16. Temples and Public Purposes Epilogue: In S…
Nationalistic Contestation and Mobilization Politics
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
State and Society in Early Republican Politics, 1912–18
The 1911 Revolution profoundly disrupted the mixture of bureaucratic power, cultural and religious symbolism, and force upon which the authority of the Qing imperial state had rested. Tacit agreements, shared assumptions and mutual interests defining balances between state and society could no longer determine political relationships. Thus the republican revolution opened the way for a long series of redefinitions, and changed the political conte…
Managed by the People
MANAGED BY THE PEOPLE: OFFICIALS, GENTRY, AND THE FOSHAN CHARITABLE GRANARY, 1795-1845* Mary Backus Rankin At the end of 1795 a group of town leaders established a charitable granary at the large, wealthy market town of Foshan, near Canton in Guangdong province. This granary is intrinsically interesting both for its size and longevity. By 1846 the reserves stood at 1,440,000 catties (about 14,400 shi), and operations continued into the twentieth …
Some Observations on a Chinese Public Sphere
The question of whether China ever had a public sphere or civil society attracts our attention, but has also become vexed, because it is relevant to the contemporary issue of how (or whether) democratic reforms can be introduced into the People's Republic of China. Other problems arise from the specific associations of these terms with the histories of modem Europe (especially Western Europe) and the United States. Civil society did not develop a…
Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, a…
Chinese Nationalism in the Late Qing Dynasty
Chinese Elites and Patterns of Dominance
The Origins of Chinese Communism.
The Origins of a Chinese Public Sphere. Local Elites and Community Affairs in the Late Imperial Period
An intermediate public sphere emerged between state and society in early seventeenth-century China. This sphere is analogous to the public sphere described by Jiirgen Habermas for western Europe. However, it took a different local and managerial form, and was related to commercial and demographic growth and the rise of gentry-merchant society rather than capitalism and a bourgeoisie. The growth of the sphere was reflected in an expansion of the m…
The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Sisters and Strangers
Chinese Elites and Political Change
PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF ELITE ACTIVITY 1. Elites and Political Development: The Historical Context 2. The Four Zhejiangs 3. Common Organizations in the Four Zhejiangs PART TWO: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE FOUR ZHEJIANGS 4. Inner-Core Elite Career Bases and Patterns 5. Inner-Core Elite Collectivities: Social Groupings and Voluntary Associations 6. Inner-Core Elites and Political Decision Making 7. Outer-Core Political and Elite Structures 8…
"Public Opinion" and Political Power
The author reinterprets the phenomenon ofqingyi(represented by members of theQingliuand Emperor's party) as passing through five phases from 1875 to 1898, in the course of which it enlarged its scope of demands by lower- and middle-grade metropolitan officials for a broader distribution of political power and contributed to the formation of public opinion. This evolution was attended by the rise of analogous demands for political restructuring by…
Some Observations on a Chinese Public Sphere
The question of whether China ever had a public sphere or civil society attracts our attention, but has also become vexed, because it is relevant to the contemporary issue of how (or whether) democratic reforms can be introduced into the People's Republic of China. Other problems arise from the specific associations of these terms with the histories of modem Europe (especially Western Europe) and the United States. Civil society did not develop a…
Nationalistic Contestation and Mobilization Politics
"Public Opinion" and Political Power
The author reinterprets the phenomenon ofqingyi(represented by members of theQingliuand Emperor's party) as passing through five phases from 1875 to 1898, in the course of which it enlarged its scope of demands by lower- and middle-grade metropolitan officials for a broader distribution of political power and contributed to the formation of public opinion. This evolution was attended by the rise of analogous demands for political restructuring by…
Managed by the People
MANAGED BY THE PEOPLE: OFFICIALS, GENTRY, AND THE FOSHAN CHARITABLE GRANARY, 1795-1845* Mary Backus Rankin At the end of 1795 a group of town leaders established a charitable granary at the large, wealthy market town of Foshan, near Canton in Guangdong province. This granary is intrinsically interesting both for its size and longevity. By 1846 the reserves stood at 1,440,000 catties (about 14,400 shi), and operations continued into the twentieth …
Alarming Crises/Enticing Possibilities
Alarming Crises/Enticing PossibilitiesPolitical and Cultural Changes in Late Nineteenth-Century China Mary Backus Rankin (bio) The years from the mid-1880s provided a tumultuous ending to China's turbulent nineteenth century. However disjointed this period appears, it was a pivotal time when growing numbers of China's scholar-elites began to question the Confucian heritage and imperial governance. Here I will emphasize two aspects of political an…
Early Chinese Revolutionaries
Early Chinese Revolutionaries
"Public Opinion" and Political Power
The author reinterprets the phenomenon ofqingyi(represented by members of theQingliuand Emperor's party) as passing through five phases from 1875 to 1898, in the course of which it enlarged its scope of demands by lower- and middle-grade metropolitan officials for a broader distribution of political power and contributed to the formation of public opinion. This evolution was attended by the rise of analogous demands for political restructuring by…
Chinese Elites and Political Change
PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF ELITE ACTIVITY 1. Elites and Political Development: The Historical Context 2. The Four Zhejiangs 3. Common Organizations in the Four Zhejiangs PART TWO: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE FOUR ZHEJIANGS 4. Inner-Core Elite Career Bases and Patterns 5. Inner-Core Elite Collectivities: Social Groupings and Voluntary Associations 6. Inner-Core Elites and Political Decision Making 7. Outer-Core Political and Elite Structures 8…
Sisters and Strangers
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China
The Origins of Chinese Communism.
The Origins of a Chinese Public Sphere. Local Elites and Community Affairs in the Late Imperial Period
An intermediate public sphere emerged between state and society in early seventeenth-century China. This sphere is analogous to the public sphere described by Jiirgen Habermas for western Europe. However, it took a different local and managerial form, and was related to commercial and demographic growth and the rise of gentry-merchant society rather than capitalism and a bourgeoisie. The growth of the sphere was reflected in an expansion of the m…
Chinese Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, a…
Chinese Nationalism in the Late Qing Dynasty
Some Observations on a Chinese Public Sphere
The question of whether China ever had a public sphere or civil society attracts our attention, but has also become vexed, because it is relevant to the contemporary issue of how (or whether) democratic reforms can be introduced into the People's Republic of China. Other problems arise from the specific associations of these terms with the histories of modem Europe (especially Western Europe) and the United States. Civil society did not develop a…
Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance
Managed by the People
MANAGED BY THE PEOPLE: OFFICIALS, GENTRY, AND THE FOSHAN CHARITABLE GRANARY, 1795-1845* Mary Backus Rankin At the end of 1795 a group of town leaders established a charitable granary at the large, wealthy market town of Foshan, near Canton in Guangdong province. This granary is intrinsically interesting both for its size and longevity. By 1846 the reserves stood at 1,440,000 catties (about 14,400 shi), and operations continued into the twentieth …
State and Society in Early Republican Politics, 1912–18
The 1911 Revolution profoundly disrupted the mixture of bureaucratic power, cultural and religious symbolism, and force upon which the authority of the Qing imperial state had rested. Tacit agreements, shared assumptions and mutual interests defining balances between state and society could no longer determine political relationships. Thus the republican revolution opened the way for a long series of redefinitions, and changed the political conte…
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
Peking
Introducing Peking 2. Gods and Clerics 3. Communities and Public Space PART TWO: MING PEKING 4. A New Capital 5. Imperial Peking 6. Urban Communities 7. Late Ming Associations 8. Seeing the Sights PART THREE: QING PEKING 9. 1644: Partition and Transition 10. The Imperial World 11. New Divisions 12. Reintegration 13. The Sights of Qing Peking 14. Religious Associations 15. Temples and Private Purposes 16. Temples and Public Purposes Epilogue: In S…
Nationalistic Contestation and Mobilization Politics
Alarming Crises/Enticing Possibilities
Alarming Crises/Enticing PossibilitiesPolitical and Cultural Changes in Late Nineteenth-Century China Mary Backus Rankin (bio) The years from the mid-1880s provided a tumultuous ending to China's turbulent nineteenth century. However disjointed this period appears, it was a pivotal time when growing numbers of China's scholar-elites began to question the Confucian heritage and imperial governance. Here I will emphasize two aspects of political an…
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, a…
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