Aymeric Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 323713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aymeric Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aymeric |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Superiore Meridionale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5216-3333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discovering and Disciplining Religion in Manchuria and Taiwan Under Japanese Rule
This article explores the nuanced impact of Japanese colonial policies on religious practices in Taiwan and Manchukuo. It delves into the imposition of State Shinto and diverse religious reforms and their role in shaping local identities within these territories. The discussion highlights the complexities of Japanization, the challenges of assimilation, and the broader implications of top-down religious transformations during colonization. It suc…
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization
This article examines four typologies of secularism in China from the sixteenth century onward, through an analysis of the triadic relationship between the secular, religious, and superstitious. These notions have been considered to be derived from the particular intellectual and political history of the West, but this fails to grasp the complexity of non-Western belief systems. This article proposes to instead examine how Chinese policymakers an…
Measuring beachgoer preferences for avoiding harmful algal blooms and bacterial warnings
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China
The offence of abortion was a Western legal disposition introduced into late Qing China in the 1900s and it remained in effect during the Republican period. In Imperial China, abortion did not constitute a criminal offence, and foetal life was generally considered inferior to human life. The widespread humanization of the foetus in early twentieth-century China was closely intertwined with the nationalist ideology that exhorted women to reproduce…
Neither Traitor nor Nationalist – Zheng Xiaoxu’s Intellectual Trajectory
Known for his loyalism towards the Qing dynasty after its collapse, Zheng Xiaoxu remains a controversial figure in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former protégé of Zhang Zhidong, he openly declared the Republic of China as his enemy state and served Manchukuo – Japan’s puppet state in northeastern China – as prime minister. Rather than resorting to the typical conception of Zheng as a ‘traitor of the Han’ (hanjian), this article examines …
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization
This article examines four typologies of secularism in China from the sixteenth century onward, through an analysis of the triadic relationship between the secular, religious, and superstitious. These notions have been considered to be derived from the particular intellectual and political history of the West, but this fails to grasp the complexity of non-Western belief systems. This article proposes to instead examine how Chinese policymakers an…
Neither Traitor nor Nationalist – Zheng Xiaoxu’s Intellectual Trajectory
Known for his loyalism towards the Qing dynasty after its collapse, Zheng Xiaoxu remains a controversial figure in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former protégé of Zhang Zhidong, he openly declared the Republic of China as his enemy state and served Manchukuo – Japan’s puppet state in northeastern China – as prime minister. Rather than resorting to the typical conception of Zheng as a ‘traitor of the Han’ (hanjian), this article examines …
Measuring beachgoer preferences for avoiding harmful algal blooms and bacterial warnings
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China
The offence of abortion was a Western legal disposition introduced into late Qing China in the 1900s and it remained in effect during the Republican period. In Imperial China, abortion did not constitute a criminal offence, and foetal life was generally considered inferior to human life. The widespread humanization of the foetus in early twentieth-century China was closely intertwined with the nationalist ideology that exhorted women to reproduce…
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization
This article examines four typologies of secularism in China from the sixteenth century onward, through an analysis of the triadic relationship between the secular, religious, and superstitious. These notions have been considered to be derived from the particular intellectual and political history of the West, but this fails to grasp the complexity of non-Western belief systems. This article proposes to instead examine how Chinese policymakers an…
Discovering and Disciplining Religion in Manchuria and Taiwan Under Japanese Rule
This article explores the nuanced impact of Japanese colonial policies on religious practices in Taiwan and Manchukuo. It delves into the imposition of State Shinto and diverse religious reforms and their role in shaping local identities within these territories. The discussion highlights the complexities of Japanization, the challenges of assimilation, and the broader implications of top-down religious transformations during colonization. It suc…
Political science (4 works) · China (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)