Emily Mokros
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Mokros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Mokros |
| SIGNATURE | MOKROS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0031-1525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Capital Region in the Unfinished Taiping War
In 1853, a Taiping army infiltrated North China, threatening Beijing and the Qing dynasty itself. Though this army never reached Beijing, its northern siege had acute and lasting impacts on communities in the capital region ( jifu 畿輔). Attention to the capital region invites reflection on the temporality and strategic nature of commemoration. Focusing on Cangzhou 滄州, I examine how capital region communities memorialized the northern chapter of th…
Ian Johnson. Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State
In the decade after the First Opium War, Thomas Francis Wade, then an assistant secretary at the British Foreign Office in Hong Kong, carefully studied the public documents of the Qing state. Reading a file of court gazettes, he noted that officials could be removed for infractions including “corruption; defalcation; concealment of crime; erroneous decisions; remissness in not preventing, or tardiness in repairing, evil; incapacity, mediocrity; i…
The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty, written by Nicolas Standaert
Like many research projects, Nicolas Standart's new book, The Chinese Gazette in European sources: joining the global public in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, began with a small question: 'a random search for references to the Chinese gazette in eighteenth-century European sources' .As anyone who has tried to trace the reach of the Qing court gazette (dibao 邸報, usually called jingbao 京報 in the nineteenth century) might recognize, this random sea…
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority
How news circulated from the Qing dynasty court In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both d…
Conference Note: Anxieties of Abundance: Sources and Methods for Qing Studies in the Digital Age
Conference Note: Anxieties of Abundance:Sources and Methods for Qing Studies in the Digital Age Emily Mokros (bio) Where is the field of Qing history going, and how will we get there? Scholars hailing from a range of disciplinary backgrounds tackled this question at a recent workshop at Johns Hopkins University by presenting "inside-out" inquiries into new sources, methods, and research in the field. The two-day workshop, titled Anxieties of Abun…
Reconstructing the Imperial Retreat: Politics, Communications, and the Yuanming Yuan under the Tongzhi Emperor, 1873-4
Reconstructing the Imperial Retreat:Politics, Communications, and the Yuanming Yuan under the Tongzhi Emperor, 1873-4 Emily Mokros (bio) "I was seized with a desire to aid personally in the emperor's endeavor," claimed a Cantonese merchant in a message to the emperor's ministers in the Imperial Household Department (neiwufu).1 "This sum that I contribute is but the tiniest token of my feelings," wrote the head of the Imperial Silk Manufactory in …
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Reconstructing the Imperial Retreat: Politics, Communications, and the Yuanming Yuan under the Tongzhi Emperor, 1873-4
Reconstructing the Imperial Retreat:Politics, Communications, and the Yuanming Yuan under the Tongzhi Emperor, 1873-4 Emily Mokros (bio) "I was seized with a desire to aid personally in the emperor's endeavor," claimed a Cantonese merchant in a message to the emperor's ministers in the Imperial Household Department (neiwufu).1 "This sum that I contribute is but the tiniest token of my feelings," wrote the head of the Imperial Silk Manufactory in …
Conference Note: Anxieties of Abundance: Sources and Methods for Qing Studies in the Digital Age
Conference Note: Anxieties of Abundance:Sources and Methods for Qing Studies in the Digital Age Emily Mokros (bio) Where is the field of Qing history going, and how will we get there? Scholars hailing from a range of disciplinary backgrounds tackled this question at a recent workshop at Johns Hopkins University by presenting "inside-out" inquiries into new sources, methods, and research in the field. The two-day workshop, titled Anxieties of Abun…
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority
How news circulated from the Qing dynasty court In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both d…
The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty, written by Nicolas Standaert
Like many research projects, Nicolas Standart's new book, The Chinese Gazette in European sources: joining the global public in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, began with a small question: 'a random search for references to the Chinese gazette in eighteenth-century European sources' .As anyone who has tried to trace the reach of the Qing court gazette (dibao 邸報, usually called jingbao 京報 in the nineteenth century) might recognize, this random sea…
Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State
In the decade after the First Opium War, Thomas Francis Wade, then an assistant secretary at the British Foreign Office in Hong Kong, carefully studied the public documents of the Qing state. Reading a file of court gazettes, he noted that officials could be removed for infractions including “corruption; defalcation; concealment of crime; erroneous decisions; remissness in not preventing, or tardiness in repairing, evil; incapacity, mediocrity; i…
Ian Johnson. Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
The Capital Region in the Unfinished Taiping War
In 1853, a Taiping army infiltrated North China, threatening Beijing and the Qing dynasty itself. Though this army never reached Beijing, its northern siege had acute and lasting impacts on communities in the capital region ( jifu 畿輔). Attention to the capital region invites reflection on the temporality and strategic nature of commemoration. Focusing on Cangzhou 滄州, I examine how capital region communities memorialized the northern chapter of th…
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