Thomas David Dubois
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 279154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas David Dubois |
| PRENOMES | Thomas David |
| SOBRENOME | Dubois |
| ASSINATURA | DUBOIS T D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7970-2472 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Business history without business
China's cattle trade before 1949 is effectively invisible to historians. With no geographic center, few dominant firms, and little government oversight, cattle trade left behind no clear archive of sources, leaving scholars to the mercy of conjecture and episodic evidence. Combining insights from business and social history, we focused our attention on trade intermediation as the key to understanding the operations of a diffuse trade system. In t…
Enchanted Revolution
Ten centuries of Chinese food writing
This article introduces ten centuries of Chinese food writing, an expansive genre that spans technical cookbooks and the cultured appreciation of gastronomy, from the contrasting disciplinary perspectives of history and folklore. It begins with the view of the historian, breaking the long progress of Chinese food writing into five eras, marked by the growing prevalence of texts, and reflecting such patterns of long-term change as the new availabi…
Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade
This article examines the branding, retail and consumer acceptance of condensed milk in Asian markets during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The two giants of the trade, Borden in the United States and Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss in Europe, each carved out distinct new markets in colonial Southeast Asia, but only the latter was committed to maintaining a long term presence, investing in local production and marketing, and taking over …
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments
China’s wave of outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) in food production has created vast commercial opportunities for host countries but has also raised concerns about political dependence on the Chinese market, charges of commodity expropriation, and concerns over the loss of food brands and technologies. While most attention is focused on the political drivers behind Chinese investments in grain production, this article examines the dairy …
Counting the carnivores
It is commonly asserted that Chinese diets before the market and production reforms of the 1980s contained little or no meat. Yet this nearly universal assumption remains untested: Unlike other forms of material consumption, the question of meat in Chinese diets has received almost no systematic attention from historians. Focusing on the early twentieth century, this article examines who in China ate meat, and how meat consumption was shaped by r…
China's old brands
China's commercial revival of the 1980s initiated a wave of nostalgia for old brands, which various political and commercial actors spent the subsequent four decades trying to develop, enhance, or exploit. Such attempts can be divided into two types: the heritage approach of the “old brands revitalization project” and the “creative nostalgia” of retro advertising. Both aim to nurture a sense of nostalgia for old brands, but they espouse opposing …
Muru yu niunai
Milk From the Butterfly Spring
Founded in 1959, the Dengchuan Milk Products Factory was both an individuated enterprise and an asset in the development of western Yunnan. This article examines the six-decade transformation of Dengchuan from state-owned industry, to officially promoted dragon head, and finally as a wholly owned subsidiary of the New Hope Group. Even as the company enjoyed greater managerial independence, it has relied on the government for materials, market acc…
Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History
"This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to integrate oral history into research plans and archival…
Germany’s colony in China
Germany’s colony in China: Colonialism, protection and economic development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914." Business History, 63(7), pp. 1226–1227
The Other Milk
Plant-based milks have enjoyed a rapid uptake in recent years. These non-dairy milks – including extracts of almond, oat, and soy – are now so popular that the traditional dairy sector is petitioni
Many roads from pasture to plate
The advent of refrigerated transport made fresh beef a global commodity, linking South American and Australian producers to hungry consumers in Europe and North America. With vast supplies of cattle, and growing markets in Japan, Russia, and beyond, China was the last great frontier of this global transformation. Rather than a single export trade, China’s beef industry was a complex and multidirectional network of producers, processors, and consu…
China Eats-Innovation, E-Commerce and Food Safety at the Hangzhou Food Forum
Since 2000, the driving force behind China's booming food industries has shifted from state planning to consumer demand. This shift has powered the growing importance of food branding, as consumers rely increasingly on known brands in the search for safe and wholesome food. While earlier eras of food branding strongly favored multinationals like Coca Cola and Nestlé, Chinese brands appear to be gradually regaining the trust of consumers, who incr…
Religious freedom in East Asia
The introduction of the Western idea of religion to East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries initiated a transformation so profound that it required the creation of an entire new vocabulary, including a new word for ‘religion’ itself. However, the fact that new regimes in China and Japan adopted Western terminology does not mean that they uncritically accepted its ideas and assumptions. East Asia was already home to millennia-old t…
Nordic literature
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This fir…
Big Meat
The incredible growth of China's cattle, sheep and dairy production is a visible phenomenon of the past twenty years, but its foundations were laid decades earlier. Seeking to industrialize its hinterland, and exploit its vast wealth of grazing livestock, China created slaughtering and processing facilities across its northern grasslands during the 1950s. Since the 1980s, much of this infrastructure has been privatized by companies which, like th…
Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia
Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Religion was at the forefront in this period of intense competition, not just …
Emily Anderson. Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
Emily Anderson’s new book examines the profound transformation undergone by members of the Japanese Congregational Church (Kumiai kyōkai) as they adapted their theology and ideology to the new realities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book joins a large body of scholarship, both on the intersection of empire and religion, and on the trials faced by Japanese Christians during the Meiji reign (1868–1912). Much of that prev…
Heaven in Conflict
Before the NGO
Two decades ago, only a handful of NGOs operated legally in China. Today the sector is thriving. Even with the threat of new restrictions under the Xi Jinping government, private social initiative appears poised for even greater expansion in the future. To fully appreciate the significance of these recent developments, this essay presents a wider view of China’s long history of civic organisation, comparing the contemporary resurgence of NGOs to …
Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia
This book is the latest contribution to the decades-long debate over whether (and if so, how) democracy should take root in East Asia. On one side, a spectrum of political and public figures, including Lee Kwan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, and Tu Wei-ming, have insisted that democracy is culturally specific: it reflects fundamentally Western individualism and is neither appropriate for nor attractive to Confucian societies (broadly speaking, the swath of…
Popular Religion and Shamanism
Popular Religion and Shamanism addresses two areas of religion within Chinese society; the lay teachings that Chinese scholars term folk or “popular” religion, and shamanism. Each area represents a distinct tradition of scholarship, and the book is therefore split into two parts. Part I: Popular Religion discusses the evolution of organized lay movements over an arc of ten centuries. Its eight chapters focus on three key points: the arrival and i…
Popular Religion and Shamanism
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity ." Social History, 36(3), pp. 384–385
Religion and the Chinese state
On the surface, religious policy in China may appear contradictory. On the one hand, the state is officially atheist. It has mounted a highly publicized campaign to suppress Falun Gong, and maintains restrictions on Islam, Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity that reveal a profound fear of independent religious organisation. On the other, China insists that it respects religious freedom. The Chinese government proudly supports the staging of certain…
Inauthentic Sovereignty
Although Manchukuo is easily dismissed as a puppet of Japan, at the time of its founding, it was one of many examples of a partially sovereign state. Specific compromises of Manchukuo's sovereignty shaped the formation of its domestic institutions, such as the legal sphere, in tangible ways. Manchukuo handed over to Japan the power to staff and ideologically mold its judiciary, while the tutelary attitude that Japan took toward the state was conc…
Many roads from pasture to plate
The advent of refrigerated transport made fresh beef a global commodity, linking South American and Australian producers to hungry consumers in Europe and North America. With vast supplies of cattle, and growing markets in Japan, Russia, and beyond, China was the last great frontier of this global transformation. Rather than a single export trade, China’s beef industry was a complex and multidirectional network of producers, processors, and consu…
Before the NGO
Two decades ago, only a handful of NGOs operated legally in China. Today the sector is thriving. Even with the threat of new restrictions under the Xi Jinping government, private social initiative appears poised for even greater expansion in the future. To fully appreciate the significance of these recent developments, this essay presents a wider view of China’s long history of civic organisation, comparing the contemporary resurgence of NGOs to …
Rule of Law in a Brave New Empire
An inquiry into law in Manchukuo might seem, at first glance, to be something of an oxymoronic task. The state itself was created in clear contravention to international law, and when the investigation of the Lytton Commission stated as much in 1933, Japan walked out of the League of Nations, the closest the world had to an international arbitrational body at the time. Within Japan itself, the creation of Manchukuo could be considered the point o…
Religious freedom in East Asia
The introduction of the Western idea of religion to East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries initiated a transformation so profound that it required the creation of an entire new vocabulary, including a new word for ‘religion’ itself. However, the fact that new regimes in China and Japan adopted Western terminology does not mean that they uncritically accepted its ideas and assumptions. East Asia was already home to millennia-old t…
Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade
This article examines the branding, retail and consumer acceptance of condensed milk in Asian markets during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The two giants of the trade, Borden in the United States and Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss in Europe, each carved out distinct new markets in colonial Southeast Asia, but only the latter was committed to maintaining a long term presence, investing in local production and marketing, and taking over …
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments
China’s wave of outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) in food production has created vast commercial opportunities for host countries but has also raised concerns about political dependence on the Chinese market, charges of commodity expropriation, and concerns over the loss of food brands and technologies. While most attention is focused on the political drivers behind Chinese investments in grain production, this article examines the dairy …
Milk From the Butterfly Spring
Founded in 1959, the Dengchuan Milk Products Factory was both an individuated enterprise and an asset in the development of western Yunnan. This article examines the six-decade transformation of Dengchuan from state-owned industry, to officially promoted dragon head, and finally as a wholly owned subsidiary of the New Hope Group. Even as the company enjoyed greater managerial independence, it has relied on the government for materials, market acc…
Hegemony, Imperialism, and the Construction of Religion in East and Southeast Asia1
Edward Said's concept of Orientalism portrays the high tide of nineteenth-century imperialism as the defining moment in the establishment of a global discursive hegemony, in which European attitudes and concepts gained a universal validity. The idea of "religion" was central to the civilizing mission of imperialism, and was shaped by the interests of a number of colonial actors in a way that remains visibly relevant today. In East and Southeast A…
"That Must Have Been ESP!" An Examination of Psychic Experiences
Hegemony, Imperialism, and the Construction of Religion in East and Southeast Asia1
Edward Said's concept of Orientalism portrays the high tide of nineteenth-century imperialism as the defining moment in the establishment of a global discursive hegemony, in which European attitudes and concepts gained a universal validity. The idea of "religion" was central to the civilizing mission of imperialism, and was shaped by the interests of a number of colonial actors in a way that remains visibly relevant today. In East and Southeast A…
Local Religion and the Imperial Imaginary
10.1086/ahr.111.1.52
Ritual and Music of North China
Rule of Law in a Brave New Empire
An inquiry into law in Manchukuo might seem, at first glance, to be something of an oxymoronic task. The state itself was created in clear contravention to international law, and when the investigation of the Lytton Commission stated as much in 1933, Japan walked out of the League of Nations, the closest the world had to an international arbitrational body at the time. Within Japan itself, the creation of Manchukuo could be considered the point o…
Casting Faiths
How did European imperialism shape the ideas and practices of religion in East and Southeast Asia? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mis
Casting Faiths
Ritual and Music of North China, Volume 2
Religion and the Chinese state
On the surface, religious policy in China may appear contradictory. On the one hand, the state is officially atheist. It has mounted a highly publicized campaign to suppress Falun Gong, and maintains restrictions on Islam, Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity that reveal a profound fear of independent religious organisation. On the other, China insists that it respects religious freedom. The Chinese government proudly supports the staging of certain…
Inauthentic Sovereignty
Although Manchukuo is easily dismissed as a puppet of Japan, at the time of its founding, it was one of many examples of a partially sovereign state. Specific compromises of Manchukuo's sovereignty shaped the formation of its domestic institutions, such as the legal sphere, in tangible ways. Manchukuo handed over to Japan the power to staff and ideologically mold its judiciary, while the tutelary attitude that Japan took toward the state was conc…
Popular Religion and Shamanism
Popular Religion and Shamanism addresses two areas of religion within Chinese society; the lay teachings that Chinese scholars term folk or “popular” religion, and shamanism. Each area represents a distinct tradition of scholarship, and the book is therefore split into two parts. Part I: Popular Religion discusses the evolution of organized lay movements over an arc of ten centuries. Its eight chapters focus on three key points: the arrival and i…
Popular Religion and Shamanism
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity ." Social History, 36(3), pp. 384–385
Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia
This book is the latest contribution to the decades-long debate over whether (and if so, how) democracy should take root in East Asia. On one side, a spectrum of political and public figures, including Lee Kwan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, and Tu Wei-ming, have insisted that democracy is culturally specific: it reflects fundamentally Western individualism and is neither appropriate for nor attractive to Confucian societies (broadly speaking, the swath of…
Heaven in Conflict
Before the NGO
Two decades ago, only a handful of NGOs operated legally in China. Today the sector is thriving. Even with the threat of new restrictions under the Xi Jinping government, private social initiative appears poised for even greater expansion in the future. To fully appreciate the significance of these recent developments, this essay presents a wider view of China’s long history of civic organisation, comparing the contemporary resurgence of NGOs to …
Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia
Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Religion was at the forefront in this period of intense competition, not just …
Emily Anderson. Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
Emily Anderson’s new book examines the profound transformation undergone by members of the Japanese Congregational Church (Kumiai kyōkai) as they adapted their theology and ideology to the new realities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book joins a large body of scholarship, both on the intersection of empire and religion, and on the trials faced by Japanese Christians during the Meiji reign (1868–1912). Much of that prev…
Nordic literature
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This fir…
Big Meat
The incredible growth of China's cattle, sheep and dairy production is a visible phenomenon of the past twenty years, but its foundations were laid decades earlier. Seeking to industrialize its hinterland, and exploit its vast wealth of grazing livestock, China created slaughtering and processing facilities across its northern grasslands during the 1950s. Since the 1980s, much of this infrastructure has been privatized by companies which, like th…
Religious freedom in East Asia
The introduction of the Western idea of religion to East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries initiated a transformation so profound that it required the creation of an entire new vocabulary, including a new word for ‘religion’ itself. However, the fact that new regimes in China and Japan adopted Western terminology does not mean that they uncritically accepted its ideas and assumptions. East Asia was already home to millennia-old t…
Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History
"This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to integrate oral history into research plans and archival…
Germany’s colony in China
Germany’s colony in China: Colonialism, protection and economic development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914." Business History, 63(7), pp. 1226–1227
The Other Milk
Plant-based milks have enjoyed a rapid uptake in recent years. These non-dairy milks – including extracts of almond, oat, and soy – are now so popular that the traditional dairy sector is petitioni
Many roads from pasture to plate
The advent of refrigerated transport made fresh beef a global commodity, linking South American and Australian producers to hungry consumers in Europe and North America. With vast supplies of cattle, and growing markets in Japan, Russia, and beyond, China was the last great frontier of this global transformation. Rather than a single export trade, China’s beef industry was a complex and multidirectional network of producers, processors, and consu…
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