Ya-Pei Kuo

Biographic Data

ID1372426
NAMEYa-Pei Kuo
GIVEN NAMESYa-Pei
FAMILY NAMEKuo
SIGNATUREKUO Y
AFFILIATIONSRuhr University Bochum
ORCID0000-0001-6912-283X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Two Conceptions of Religion in Modern China: Chen Duxiu on the Eve of the Anti-Religion/Anti-Christian Movement

    Ya-Pei KuoCHAPTERIntellectual History of Key…2020

    Koselleck 2004b, 255-275). In other words, a concept is the summation of past experience and at the same time, a constituent of present experience.Koselleck's decoupling of the word and the concept provides a methodological ground for heuristic distinction between concept formation and translation as two historical processes.In current scholarship, many have made attempts in this direction.In a different publication, I have tried to address the "…

  • Redeploying Confucius: The Imperial State Dreams of the Nation, 1902–1911

    Ya-Pei KuoCHAPTERChinese Religiosities2019

  • The Making of The New Culture Movement: A Discursive History

    Open AccessYa-Pei KuoARTICLETwentieth-Century China2017

    This article argues that the "New Culture movement" as represented in current historiography was by and large constructed from 1923 to 1924. Wenhua yundong (cultural movement) was originally a common phrase referring to the post-May Fourth awakening to the power of modern mass communication. Xin wenhua yundong (New Culture movement) as a proper noun first emerged in Chen Duxiu's polemics against alternative visions of cultural modernity in 1920. …

  • Temporality of Knowledge and History Writing in Early Twentieth-Century China. Liu Yizheng and A History of Chinese Culture

    Ya-Pei KuoCHAPTERChallenge of Linear Time2013

    The significance of Liang's New Historiography, went beyond promoting the writing of national history. More importantly, Liu Yizheng's short stay at the bureau marked the inception of his lifelong involvement with history writing. The book was largely based on A General History of China , written by Naka Michiyo. A History of Chinese Culture was one of the first works in Chinese that recounted the entire national history. The main text of the boo…

  • Christian Civilization' and the Confucian Church: The Origin of Secularist Politics in Modern China

    Ya-Pei KuoARTICLEPast & Present2013Cited by: 3

    Journal Article 'Christian Civilization' and the Confucian Church: The Origin of Secularist Politics in Modern China* Get access Ya-pei Kuo Ya-pei Kuo Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 218, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 235–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gts030 Published: 18 December 2012

  • The Emperor and the People in One Body: The Worship of Confucius and Ritual Planning in the Xinzheng Reforms, 1902—1911

    Open AccessYa-Pei KuoARTICLEModern China2009References: 19

    This article uses the changing status of Confucius and his worship during the Xinzheng reforms (1902—1911) to investigate the transformation of imperial ritual into a political apparatus for the imagining of the nation. It first surveys the practices of Confucius worship in late imperial China and discusses its multivalent meanings. It then analyzes the Xinzheng reformers' reconstruction of Confucius into a symbol of Chineseness and situates it i…