Tobie Meyer-Fong
Biographic Data
| ID | 175764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobie Meyer-Fong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobie |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer-Fong |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER-FONG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking the Qing
In Memory
Personal Y Lo Global en La Guerra Civil China De Mediados Del Siglo Xix
A mediados del siglo xix, decenas de millones de personas murieron en China a consecuencia de la devastadora guerra civil Taiping (1850-1864). Tanto coetánea como posteriormente, la guerra fue definida en términos morales absolutos: como un conflicto entre los honrados defensores del régimen dominante y el populacho rebelde, como un movimiento revolucionario para deponer justamente a una dinastía extranjera o como un incipiente movimiento protest…
In Memory
In Memory Tobie Meyer-Fong As this issue of Late Imperial China went to press, the editors learned of the death at the age of 88 of Harold L. Kahn, who taught Chinese history at Stanford for most of his multi-decade career. A beloved teacher and leader in the field, Hal once described himself as an “inadvertent radical,” and professed that the three things at the core of his being were “food, words, and baseball.” While his culinary acumen, verba…
To Know the Enemy
This article highlights the strategies and institutions that were mobilized in order to collect information during the Taiping Civil War (1851-1864). Through a close reading of the Zei qing huizuan 賊情彙纂 ( Compendium of Rebel Intelligence ), the article reveals that the Qing and its allies understood the Taiping as a political entity constituted on a familiar (dynastic) model and also in ethnographic terms (linguistic, sartorial, religious, region…
Civil War, Revolutionary Heritage, and the Chinese Garden
The Chinese garden now symbolizes timeless national, cultural, and aesthetic values. But as real property in the past, gardens inevitably were subject to the vicissitudes of their times. This article focuses on gardens and the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864). During the war, many gardens were reduced to tile shards and ash. Surviving gardens functioned as objects of longing and nostalgia, sites of refuge (physical and emotional), or a means to disp…
Conference Note
Conference NoteEarly Modern China in the Late Imperial World Tobie Meyer-Fong In mid-October, with the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation’s Inter-University Center for Sinology, the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University convened a workshop titled Early Modern China in the Late Imperial World in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of this journal and its parent society. Bringing t…
Fifty years of Qing studies—and Late Imperial China
Fifty years of Qing studies—and Late Imperial China Tobie Meyer-Fong, Editor Fifty years ago, in April 1965, a small group of Qing historians, including John King Fairbank and Mary Wright, gathered informally at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in San Francisco. They gave themselves a name—the Society for Qing Studies—and they tasked a junior scholar—Jonathan Spence (Mary Wright’s student, who would receive his PhD from Yale later…
Where the War Ended
China’s mid-nineteenth-century civil war pitted forces allied with the Qing imperial government against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a charismatic religious and political movement that originated in China’s far south, whose leaders had effectively seceded from the Qing in 1851 and established their capital at Nanjing in 1853. The war, most commonly known in English as the Taiping Rebellion (dates usually given as 1850–1864) and in Chinese as “th…
Unknow Title Article ID 564697
Tobie Meyer-Fong As Late Imperial China and The Society for Qing Studies approach their shared fiftieth birthday, eight new associate editors are joining Janet Theiss on the masthead. They are (in alphabetical order) Michael Chang, Maram Epstein, Qitao Guo, Dorothy Ko, Steven B. Miles, Matthew Mosca, Carla Nappi, and Yi-Li Wu. Bruce Tindall and Megan Zeller continue in their critical roles as copy editor and production editor respectively. Ke Ren…
What Remains
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities gr…
What Remains
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangzi Delta. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remainsexplores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Weste…
The Printed World
Beginning in the late Ming period, China experienced a surge in the production and consumption of books. Printed pages bound into fascicles and housed in cases moved across space and through the social landscape. Their trajectories illuminate larger social, intellectual, economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction-by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late …
Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou
This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century. The book focuses on the period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence-a moment in which Yangzhou was a center…
Packaging the Men of Our Times
Tobie Meyer-Fong, Packaging the Men of Our Times: Literary Anthologies, Friendship Networks, and Political Accommodation in the Early Qing, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jun., 2004), pp. 5-56
A Bushel of Pearls
Making a Place for Meaning in Early Qing Yangzhou
Making a Place for Meaning in Early Qing Yangzhou * Tobie Meyer-Fong (bio) During the Kangxi period (1661–1722), the poet and writer Dong Yining, who was at least an occasional presence on the Yangzhou literary scene, commented on the ways in which places acquired significance through famous individuals: The fame of mountains and rivers is mostly due to outstanding people. Before Su Shi’s excursion, the Red Cliff was just another stupid rock. Sin…
The Printed World
Beginning in the late Ming period, China experienced a surge in the production and consumption of books. Printed pages bound into fascicles and housed in cases moved across space and through the social landscape. Their trajectories illuminate larger social, intellectual, economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction-by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late …
Packaging the Men of Our Times
Tobie Meyer-Fong, Packaging the Men of Our Times: Literary Anthologies, Friendship Networks, and Political Accommodation in the Early Qing, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jun., 2004), pp. 5-56
Where the War Ended
China’s mid-nineteenth-century civil war pitted forces allied with the Qing imperial government against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a charismatic religious and political movement that originated in China’s far south, whose leaders had effectively seceded from the Qing in 1851 and established their capital at Nanjing in 1853. The war, most commonly known in English as the Taiping Rebellion (dates usually given as 1850–1864) and in Chinese as “th…
Making a Place for Meaning in Early Qing Yangzhou
Making a Place for Meaning in Early Qing Yangzhou * Tobie Meyer-Fong (bio) During the Kangxi period (1661–1722), the poet and writer Dong Yining, who was at least an occasional presence on the Yangzhou literary scene, commented on the ways in which places acquired significance through famous individuals: The fame of mountains and rivers is mostly due to outstanding people. Before Su Shi’s excursion, the Red Cliff was just another stupid rock. Sin…
A Bushel of Pearls
Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou
This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century. The book focuses on the period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence-a moment in which Yangzhou was a center…
Packaging the Men of Our Times
Tobie Meyer-Fong, Packaging the Men of Our Times: Literary Anthologies, Friendship Networks, and Political Accommodation in the Early Qing, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jun., 2004), pp. 5-56
The Printed World
Beginning in the late Ming period, China experienced a surge in the production and consumption of books. Printed pages bound into fascicles and housed in cases moved across space and through the social landscape. Their trajectories illuminate larger social, intellectual, economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction-by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late …
What Remains
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities gr…
What Remains
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangzi Delta. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remainsexplores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Weste…
Unknow Title Article ID 564697
Tobie Meyer-Fong As Late Imperial China and The Society for Qing Studies approach their shared fiftieth birthday, eight new associate editors are joining Janet Theiss on the masthead. They are (in alphabetical order) Michael Chang, Maram Epstein, Qitao Guo, Dorothy Ko, Steven B. Miles, Matthew Mosca, Carla Nappi, and Yi-Li Wu. Bruce Tindall and Megan Zeller continue in their critical roles as copy editor and production editor respectively. Ke Ren…
Civil War, Revolutionary Heritage, and the Chinese Garden
The Chinese garden now symbolizes timeless national, cultural, and aesthetic values. But as real property in the past, gardens inevitably were subject to the vicissitudes of their times. This article focuses on gardens and the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864). During the war, many gardens were reduced to tile shards and ash. Surviving gardens functioned as objects of longing and nostalgia, sites of refuge (physical and emotional), or a means to disp…
Conference Note
Conference NoteEarly Modern China in the Late Imperial World Tobie Meyer-Fong In mid-October, with the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation’s Inter-University Center for Sinology, the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University convened a workshop titled Early Modern China in the Late Imperial World in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of this journal and its parent society. Bringing t…
Fifty years of Qing studies—and Late Imperial China
Fifty years of Qing studies—and Late Imperial China Tobie Meyer-Fong, Editor Fifty years ago, in April 1965, a small group of Qing historians, including John King Fairbank and Mary Wright, gathered informally at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in San Francisco. They gave themselves a name—the Society for Qing Studies—and they tasked a junior scholar—Jonathan Spence (Mary Wright’s student, who would receive his PhD from Yale later…
Where the War Ended
China’s mid-nineteenth-century civil war pitted forces allied with the Qing imperial government against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a charismatic religious and political movement that originated in China’s far south, whose leaders had effectively seceded from the Qing in 1851 and established their capital at Nanjing in 1853. The war, most commonly known in English as the Taiping Rebellion (dates usually given as 1850–1864) and in Chinese as “th…
In Memory
In Memory Tobie Meyer-Fong As this issue of Late Imperial China went to press, the editors learned of the death at the age of 88 of Harold L. Kahn, who taught Chinese history at Stanford for most of his multi-decade career. A beloved teacher and leader in the field, Hal once described himself as an “inadvertent radical,” and professed that the three things at the core of his being were “food, words, and baseball.” While his culinary acumen, verba…
To Know the Enemy
This article highlights the strategies and institutions that were mobilized in order to collect information during the Taiping Civil War (1851-1864). Through a close reading of the Zei qing huizuan 賊情彙纂 ( Compendium of Rebel Intelligence ), the article reveals that the Qing and its allies understood the Taiping as a political entity constituted on a familiar (dynastic) model and also in ethnographic terms (linguistic, sartorial, religious, region…
Personal Y Lo Global en La Guerra Civil China De Mediados Del Siglo Xix
A mediados del siglo xix, decenas de millones de personas murieron en China a consecuencia de la devastadora guerra civil Taiping (1850-1864). Tanto coetánea como posteriormente, la guerra fue definida en términos morales absolutos: como un conflicto entre los honrados defensores del régimen dominante y el populacho rebelde, como un movimiento revolucionario para deponer justamente a una dinastía extranjera o como un incipiente movimiento protest…
Rethinking the Qing
In Memory
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