Tim Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8338-5935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Strategies for Improving Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Participation in Professional Development Opportunities
Professional development (PD) opportunities during pre-service teachers’ time in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs fosters positive habits for the future. This article provides a successful framework for promoting pre-service teachers’ participation in PD opportunities
Silver and Gold: Sino-Japanese Competition in Manchuria during the 1930s World Depression
The World Depression was crucial both for the histories of China and Japan and for the relationship between the two countries. This study of Manchuria examines how a side effect of the Depression—changes in the value of silver-based currencies in relation to gold-based ones—influenced the relationship through competition between Chinese and Japanese enterprises. To begin with, the decline in the value of silver increased the competitiveness of a …
Legitimacy and Disaster: Responses to the 1932 Floods in North Manchuria
The very existence of the new state of Manchukuo was contested throughout the 1930s. Despite its colonial reality, its form as a nation-state necessitated an attempt to generate legitimacy, and its best hope lay in performance legitimacy as a modernizing and developmental state delivering public goods and offering honest and efficient government. Less than a year after its establishment, the new state faced a crisis caused by large-scale floods i…
Sacrificing Local Interests: Water control policies of the Ming and Qing governments and the local economy of Huaibei, 1495-1949
From the end of the fifteenth century, the Ming state redirected the entire flow of the Yellow River into the course of the Huai River in order the facilitate the transport of tribute grain. This shifted the major problems of water control from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to the Huaibei region. Huaibei was viewed as 'a local interest', as opposed to the 'general interests' represented by the central government, and was sacrif…
When children commit atrocities in war
There is considerable disagreement among governments, civil society groups and scholars as to whether the prosecution of child soldiers who have committed war crimes is ever appropriate. In one camp are those who argue that child soldiers should always be considered as victims, and that prosecutions are necessarily at odds with rehabilitation and reintegration efforts. On the other side of the debate are those who maintain that the prosecution of…
Industrialisation and Handicraft Cloth: The Jiangsu Peasant Economy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This paper analyses the trajectories of handicraft cloth production in three major sub-regions of Jiangsu Province in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In contrast to traditional focus on the bankruptcy of rural handicrafts in the face of competition from the modern industry, it argues that the fate of handicrafts depended on the specific characteristics of each sub-regional economy. Thus in Song-Tai, handicraft weaving declined …
In Search of Justice: Why Australians Should Be Prosecuted for War Crimes Committed in Iraq
State Capacity in Contemporary China: ‘Closing the Pits and Reducing Coal Production’
This paper analyses the capacity of China's central state to control society and implement its policies at the local level, using as a case study the implementation from 1998 of a major policy initiative—‘closing the pits and reducing coal production’. The aims of this policy were to close down many of the TVE (township and village enterprise) mines, thereby ameliorating China's coal safety record, and to reduce output in order to balance supply …
An Economic Cycle in Imperial China? Revisiting Robert Hartwell on Iron and Coal
Robert Hartwell's article published in 1967 in this journal has had an extensive influence in both Chinese and global history. The present article reviews the reception and use made of Hartwell's arguments by secondary sources over the last forty years. It focuses on three aspects: the Song economic revolution; Hartwell's quantitative estimate for iron production; and Hartwell's proposition that coal and iron production and consumption peaked in …
The Manchurian Economy and the 1930s World Depression
This paper analyses Manchuria's economic history between 1929 and 1936, as part of a larger project on the Great Depression's impact on China. Based on a new series for Manchurian GDP, 1924–1937, the paper advances four key arguments. First, early in the Depression, Manchuria's use of silver currency partially protected its economy from the global downturn, while creating serious problems for importers and Japanese-owned enterprises, resulting in…
The Special Wives' Equity and the Struggle for Women's Equality
The Performance of China's Industrial Enterprises: A Coal Industry Perspective
Coal mining has been one of the biggest loss-making sectors among China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the performance of the industry might thus throw light on broader questions of enterprise performance during China's reform period. After outlining the overall financial performance of coal mining SOEs, the article examines the medium- and long-term influences on the performance of coal mining enterprises in four major categories-those re…
Globalization, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry . Huaichuan Rui
Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 . Linsun Cheng
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican China . Brett Sheehan
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy . Kenneth Pomeranz
Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937 . Sherman Cochran
Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market . Sucheta Mazumdar
The political economy of prices in China's planned and market economies: Competition and control in the coal industry
(2000). The political economy of prices in China's planned and market economies: competition and control in the coal industry. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 349-376
Competition and Complementarity: Township and Village Mines and the State Sector in China's Coal Industry
Distant Thunder: The Regional Economies of Southwest China and the Impact of the Great Depression
A study of the impact of the 1930s World Depression on Southwest China intersects with two major controversies in modern Chinese economic history. First, there is still substantial disagreement over the severity of the impact of the Depression on China. The 'traditional' interpretation inside China has focused on the 'bankruptcy' of the economy in the 1930s (of which the Depression was one but not the only cause). While many aspects of the 'bankr…
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and their Neighbors
The Chinese Economy, 1870-1949 . Albert Feuerwerker
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin and Their Neighbors
This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and Pengmin (a largely Hakka-speaking people) migration in this era? In what circumstances and over what issues did ethnic conflict emerge? How did the Chinese state react to …
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors
This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and Pengmin (a largely Hakka-speaking people) migration in this era? In what circumstances and over what issues did ethnic conflict emerge? How did the Chinese state react to …
Competition and Complementarity: Township and Village Mines and the State Sector in China's Coal Industry
Distant Thunder: The Regional Economies of Southwest China and the Impact of the Great Depression
A study of the impact of the 1930s World Depression on Southwest China intersects with two major controversies in modern Chinese economic history. First, there is still substantial disagreement over the severity of the impact of the Depression on China. The 'traditional' interpretation inside China has focused on the 'bankruptcy' of the economy in the 1930s (of which the Depression was one but not the only cause). While many aspects of the 'bankr…
Coping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government's Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932-1936
The relationship between state and society has recently attracted increasing interest (Skocpol 1985). In many cases, particularly in Asia and the 'third world', the question has been posed in terms of how far the state's economic policies reflect the (real or perceived) interests of the capitalist class, or whether the state and its personnel act as an autonomous force above society pursuing policies irrelevant or even inimical to capitalist inte…
A Method of Evading Management'-Contract Labor in Chinese Coal Mines before 1937
How far were China's prewar economic institutions the product of its particular history and traditions-that is, the product either of the nature of its premodern society or of its later status as a semicolony-and how far can they rather be seen as answers to problems common to the stage of economic development which the country had reached at that time
Growth of the Modern Chinese Coal Industry: An Analysis of Supply and Demand, 1896-1936
Industrialisation and Handicraft Cloth: The Jiangsu Peasant Economy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This paper analyses the trajectories of handicraft cloth production in three major sub-regions of Jiangsu Province in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In contrast to traditional focus on the bankruptcy of rural handicrafts in the face of competition from the modern industry, it argues that the fate of handicrafts depended on the specific characteristics of each sub-regional economy. Thus in Song-Tai, handicraft weaving declined …
State Capacity in Contemporary China: ‘Closing the Pits and Reducing Coal Production’
This paper analyses the capacity of China's central state to control society and implement its policies at the local level, using as a case study the implementation from 1998 of a major policy initiative—‘closing the pits and reducing coal production’. The aims of this policy were to close down many of the TVE (township and village enterprise) mines, thereby ameliorating China's coal safety record, and to reduce output in order to balance supply …
The Performance of China's Industrial Enterprises: A Coal Industry Perspective
Coal mining has been one of the biggest loss-making sectors among China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the performance of the industry might thus throw light on broader questions of enterprise performance during China's reform period. After outlining the overall financial performance of coal mining SOEs, the article examines the medium- and long-term influences on the performance of coal mining enterprises in four major categories-those re…
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and their Neighbors
Shanghai Imperialists versus Rickshaw Racketeers: The Defeat of the 1934 Rickshaw Reforms
Imperialism and the Chinese economy: A methodological critique of the debate
One of the major debates in modern Chinese history has been on the impact of imperialism. Imperialism affected China politically, socially, culturally, and even psychologically, and an overall balance sheet would have to take into account all these aspects. An important part of the debate has, however, focused on the impact on China's economy. Some aspects of imperialism—for instance, the imposition of indemnities—were clearly and unambiguously h…
Legitimacy and Disaster: Responses to the 1932 Floods in North Manchuria
The very existence of the new state of Manchukuo was contested throughout the 1930s. Despite its colonial reality, its form as a nation-state necessitated an attempt to generate legitimacy, and its best hope lay in performance legitimacy as a modernizing and developmental state delivering public goods and offering honest and efficient government. Less than a year after its establishment, the new state faced a crisis caused by large-scale floods i…
An Economic Cycle in Imperial China? Revisiting Robert Hartwell on Iron and Coal
Robert Hartwell's article published in 1967 in this journal has had an extensive influence in both Chinese and global history. The present article reviews the reception and use made of Hartwell's arguments by secondary sources over the last forty years. It focuses on three aspects: the Song economic revolution; Hartwell's quantitative estimate for iron production; and Hartwell's proposition that coal and iron production and consumption peaked in …
The Manchurian Economy and the 1930s World Depression
This paper analyses Manchuria's economic history between 1929 and 1936, as part of a larger project on the Great Depression's impact on China. Based on a new series for Manchurian GDP, 1924–1937, the paper advances four key arguments. First, early in the Depression, Manchuria's use of silver currency partially protected its economy from the global downturn, while creating serious problems for importers and Japanese-owned enterprises, resulting in…
The political economy of prices in China's planned and market economies: Competition and control in the coal industry
(2000). The political economy of prices in China's planned and market economies: competition and control in the coal industry. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 349-376
Technology, economics, and politics in the modernization of China's coal-mining industry, 1850–1895
Sino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921-1937
The weakening of Japan's position in China following the Washington Conference led to the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Luda Company to run the Zichuan coal mines, operated by the Japanese army since 1915. The inability of the Chinese promoters to raise sufficient funds for the company, however, allowed the Japanese investors the major say in company policy. As a Sino-foreign company, Luda enjoyed special privileges which were zealously uphe…
Sino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921-1937
The weakening of Japan's position in China following the Washington Conference led to the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Luda Company to run the Zichuan coal mines, operated by the Japanese army since 1915. The inability of the Chinese promoters to raise sufficient funds for the company, however, allowed the Japanese investors the major say in company policy. As a Sino-foreign company, Luda enjoyed special privileges which were zealously uphe…
China's Oil Future: A Case of Modest Expectations. Randall W. Hardy
Technology, economics, and politics in the modernization of China's coal-mining industry, 1850–1895
Growth of the Modern Chinese Coal Industry: An Analysis of Supply and Demand, 1896-1936
A Method of Evading Management'-Contract Labor in Chinese Coal Mines before 1937
How far were China's prewar economic institutions the product of its particular history and traditions-that is, the product either of the nature of its premodern society or of its later status as a semicolony-and how far can they rather be seen as answers to problems common to the stage of economic development which the country had reached at that time
Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis. Christopher Howe
Economic Development in China during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review Article
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Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895-1937
Imperialism and the Chinese economy: A methodological critique of the debate
One of the major debates in modern Chinese history has been on the impact of imperialism. Imperialism affected China politically, socially, culturally, and even psychologically, and an overall balance sheet would have to take into account all these aspects. An important part of the debate has, however, focused on the impact on China's economy. Some aspects of imperialism—for instance, the imposition of indemnities—were clearly and unambiguously h…
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895-1937
Modern China: The Mirage of Modernity. I. W. Mabbett
In memoriam
The Spiritual Heritage of Chinese Capitalism: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Chinese Enterprise Management
Rickshaws in East Asia: Means of transport and symbol of oppression
(1988). Rickshaws in East Asia: means of transport and symbol of oppression. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 42-43
The Chinese working class: New historical approaches
Gail Hershatter, The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949, Stanford University Press, California, 1986. Cloth US$37.50. Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949, Stanford University Press, California, 1986. 299 pp. Cloth: US$37.50. James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie. A People's History of Singapore (1880–1940), East Asian Social Science Monographs, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1986. xix, 391 pp. Preface…
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937
Sow-Theng Leong (1939-87)
China's prewar agriculture: A success story
Loren Brandt. Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China, 1870–1937. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 232. US$42.50. David Faure. The Rural Economy of Pre–Liberation China: Trade Increase and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870–1937. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 283. HK$195.00
Shanghai Imperialists versus Rickshaw Racketeers: The Defeat of the 1934 Rickshaw Reforms
Coping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government's Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932-1936
The relationship between state and society has recently attracted increasing interest (Skocpol 1985). In many cases, particularly in Asia and the 'third world', the question has been posed in terms of how far the state's economic policies reflect the (real or perceived) interests of the capitalist class, or whether the state and its personnel act as an autonomous force above society pursuing policies irrelevant or even inimical to capitalist inte…
The Chinese Economy in the Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies
To the People: James Yen and Village China. Charles W. Hayford
Films and Videos
Book notes
Jean‐Pierre Cabestan, Le système politique de la Chine Populaire (No. 2863 in the series Que sais‐je) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. 127 pp. ISBN 2–13–046516–1. Frederick C. Teiwes Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950–1965 Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. 593 pp. $70.00, ISBN 1–56324–226–5. Paperback $27.95, ISBN 1–56324–227–3. Erroll Hodge Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the S…
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors
This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and Pengmin (a largely Hakka-speaking people) migration in this era? In what circumstances and over what issues did ethnic conflict emerge? How did the Chinese state react to …
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