Peter C Perdue
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 738268 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter C Perdue |
| NOMBRES | Peter C |
| APELLIDO | Perdue |
| FIRMA | PERDUE P C |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3743-6153 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall
Ecological History in Preindustrial and Postagrarian China
This commentary compares Stevan Harrell’s “resilience” model to other familiar paradigms of China’s premodern history, including those of Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner. It gives examples of the Yellow River and frontier clearance as supporting evidence for the utility of the model. It further suggests that the People’s Republic of China under Xi Jinping is entering, according to Harrell’s framework, a new “conservation” (K) phase of rigidity,…
The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739–1864
Richard Wilhelm and Alfred Döblin Transread the Chinese Tradition
This article compares the transreading of Chinese texts in German by Sinologist Richard Wilhelm and novelist Alfred Döblin. Wilhelm, a spiritual intermediary between China and Europe, worked with eminent Chinese scholars to write accessible translations for German readers of Confucian and Daoist classics. Döblin relied on Wilhelm’s translation of the Liezi for his artistic breakthrough, The Three Leaps of Wang-lun: Chinese Novel. Over two decades…
In Memoriam
Preface to “Reflections on Stevan Harrell’s An Ecological History of Modern China ”
From Turfan to Taiwan
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand of free, forced and unfree labour, long and short distanc…
Shared Histories of Modernity
Asia Inside Out
Asia Inside Out
Global Connections
The Qing Empire in Eurasian Time and Space
Reflections on the transnational and comparative imperial history of Asia
Two prominent approaches to the history of empires and nation-states are comparative imperial history [CIH] and transnational history [TNH]. Each group of historians has actively promoted their perspective, but the two have had little interaction. Furthermore, in the history of East Asia, nationalist perspectives have dominated over transnational approaches until very recent times. This article points to new studies that examine Chinese imperial …
Philip A. Kuhn, A Scholarly Appreciation
Philip A. Kuhn, A Scholarly Appreciation Peter Perdue Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970, reprint 1980. Kuhn, Philip A. "Local Self-Government under the Republic: Problems of Control, Autonomy, and Mobilization." In Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China, edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Carolyn Grant. Berkeley: …
From the Outside Looking In
During the 40 years since its founding, the Social Science History Association (SSHA) and its journal have attracted many scholars to the field of social science history, stimulating many new lines of research, but it has only had limited success in developing some of the more prominent new trends in the history field. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's early presence in the journal Social Science History did not stimulate much further work on the longue …
Global Connections
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the Middle Ages. The boo…
Crossing Borders in Imperial China
Introduction
Introduction
Global Connections
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about the world in 2050, visiting diverse civilizations, n…
Tea, Cloth, Gold, and Religion
Based on Manchu archival sources, this paper discusses three trade missions which traveled from Mongolia through Qinghai to Tibet in the early eighteenth century, during a time of truce between the Qing emperor and the leaders of the Zunghar Mongol confederation. Qing officials scrutinized intensively and carefully supervised the progress of these missions, which the Zunghar envoys used to establish commercial and religious links with the Buddhis…
The Tenacious Tributary System
Recently, some writers on Chinese foreign relations have argued that the tributary system is a useful concept for describing imperial China's relations with its neighbors, and that it can even serve as a model for the future of international relations in East Asia. An examination of China's historical practice of foreign relations shows that there was no systematic tributary system, but instead multiple relationships of trade, military force, dip…
Asia Inside Out
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports …
Asia Inside Out
China Marches West
Perdue illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China's frontier expansion
Insiders and Outsiders
The Tenacious Tributary System
Recently, some writers on Chinese foreign relations have argued that the tributary system is a useful concept for describing imperial China's relations with its neighbors, and that it can even serve as a model for the future of international relations in East Asia. An examination of China's historical practice of foreign relations shows that there was no systematic tributary system, but instead multiple relationships of trade, military force, dip…
Asia Inside Out
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports …
Boundaries, Maps, and Movement
Comparative responses to global processes that affected China and the other early modern empires. Central Eurasia during the seventeent and eighteenth centuries offers one important site because three agrarian states contended for power: the Muscovite/Russian empire, expanding eastwards across Siberia; the Manchu Qing expanding first south-east, then northwest into the Central Asian steppes, deserts, and oases; and the Mongolian empire of the Zun…
Water Control in the Dongting Lake Region during the Ming and Qing Periods
Both the population and agricultural production of the Dongting Lake region in Hunan and Hubei provinces developed rapidly from the late Ming period through the mid-Qing period. During this period, the interests of local dike builders in clearing more land increasingly came into conflict with the efforts of Qing officials to prevent floods by supervising dike repairs and preventing overbuilding of dikes. Although local landowners accepted state s…
Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China, Russia, and Mongolia
From the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries three agrarian states-Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian-struggled for power over the heartland of the Eurasian continent. Each had dynamic central leaders mobilizing agrarian surpluses based on drastically different ecologies, institutions, and military structures. When the dust cleared, by 1760, only two survived
Comparing Empires
(1998). Comparing Empires: Manchu Colonialism. The International History Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 255-262
China and Other Colonial Empires
Empire is back. Once upon a time, in the era of decolonization, empires seemed like remnants of a past that would soon disappear. No more. Now, both as a reality of modern geopolitics and as a subject of academic study, empires are flourishing as never before. Although the current global power with the greatest imperial pretensions is now facing increasing difficulties in subduing resistance in one of its remote frontiers, and the American public…
Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers
Ecologies of production and state classifications shaped Chinese imperial frontier policies. In Chinese classical debates about the effect of environment on human character, the dominant view held that all peoples could become civilised, but a dissenting view held that barbarians could never change their ways. Nomadic pastoralists likewise debated whether to adopt certain Han cultural practices or reject them. Chinese dynasties often accepted div…
Native Place, City, and Nation
This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and per…
AHR Conversation
Environmental history is no longer new. Neither, of course, is the notion of environmental crisis. But they are bound together. It might be said, in fact, that historians’ interest in the environment as a legitimate and urgent subject for historical study only crystallized as a field when the deteriorating state of the environment became an issue of public concern in the 1970s. Thus, if environmental historians are not solely interested in dramat…
Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective
R. Bin Wong espouses the principle of symmetry in comparative analysis.35 If we are to view China through European eyes, we should equally view Europe through Chinese eyes. This leads him to develop new perspectives on both regions. What is a major focus of attention in one society may only be a minor key in another. Even though the repertory of human perceptions, administrative structures, or economic modes of production is finite, different for…
Famine's Foes in Ch'ing China
Reflections on the transnational and comparative imperial history of Asia
Two prominent approaches to the history of empires and nation-states are comparative imperial history [CIH] and transnational history [TNH]. Each group of historians has actively promoted their perspective, but the two have had little interaction. Furthermore, in the history of East Asia, nationalist perspectives have dominated over transnational approaches until very recent times. This article points to new studies that examine Chinese imperial …
Strange Parallels across Eurasia
Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels is the culmination of an extended effort to compare many major polities of the Eurasian continent in the early modern age. Lieberman finds common cycles of administrative integration and disintegration that were increasingly synchronized over time. Although he does not give a single-factor explanation for this synchronization, his model provides a common vocabulary for political, economic, and cultural analysi…
China and the World Economy
The City in Late Imperial China
Water Control in the Dongting Lake Region during the Ming and Qing Periods
Both the population and agricultural production of the Dongting Lake region in Hunan and Hubei provinces developed rapidly from the late Ming period through the mid-Qing period. During this period, the interests of local dike builders in clearing more land increasingly came into conflict with the efforts of Qing officials to prevent floods by supervising dike repairs and preventing overbuilding of dikes. Although local landowners accepted state s…
Famine's Foes in Ch'ing China
Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China
Insiders and Outsiders
The Magistrate's Tael
Exhausting the Earth
Exhausting the Earth
Revolution in Republican China
Exhausting the Earth
Chungkuk Kŭnse Sahoe Kyongchesa Yonku
The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China
Nourish the People
The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational bases of its successes and failures, and examines variant practices in different regions. The volume concludes with an assessment of the granary system’s social and economic impact and historical comparison with the food supp…
The Great Wall of China
Introduction: what is the Great Wall of China? Part I. First Considerations: 2. Early Chinese walls 3. Strategic origins of Chinese walls Part II. The Making of the Great Wall: 4. Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos 5. Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse 6. Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls 7. Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century 8. The second debate o…
Exile in Mid-Qing China
Statecraft and Political Economy on The Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800
Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China, Russia, and Mongolia
From the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries three agrarian states-Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian-struggled for power over the heartland of the Eurasian continent. Each had dynamic central leaders mobilizing agrarian surpluses based on drastically different ecologies, institutions, and military structures. When the dust cleared, by 1760, only two survived
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
Native Place, City, and Nation
This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population of Shanghai and other expanding commercial Chinese cities. These immigrants formed native place associations beginning in the imperial period and per…
Boundaries, Maps, and Movement
Comparative responses to global processes that affected China and the other early modern empires. Central Eurasia during the seventeent and eighteenth centuries offers one important site because three agrarian states contended for power: the Muscovite/Russian empire, expanding eastwards across Siberia; the Manchu Qing expanding first south-east, then northwest into the Central Asian steppes, deserts, and oases; and the Mongolian empire of the Zun…
Comparing Empires
(1998). Comparing Empires: Manchu Colonialism. The International History Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 255-262
The shape of the world
The East has risen again. As anyone can tell from the newspapers, Asian economies influence the globe daily. Over the past twenty years, rhetoric about Asia, especially East Asia, has changed dramatically, but the centrality of Asia has grown. Americans used to think that a prosperous, technologically advanced East Asia which did not play by our rules would threaten U.S. global hegemony. Now, in the time of the Asian financial crisis, some compla…
Technology and Gender
Reviewed by: Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China * Peter C. Perdue (bio) Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. By Francesca Bray. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+419; illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Few historians of technology study non-Western agrarian societies. Francesca Bray fills a large void by …
China and the World Economy
Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective
R. Bin Wong espouses the principle of symmetry in comparative analysis.35 If we are to view China through European eyes, we should equally view Europe through Chinese eyes. This leads him to develop new perspectives on both regions. What is a major focus of attention in one society may only be a minor key in another. Even though the repertory of human perceptions, administrative structures, or economic modes of production is finite, different for…
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