Pierre Fuller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Fuller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuller |
| SIGNATURE | FULLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in East Asian History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester United Kingdom |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Clément Fabre, À l’ombre de la race. Chine, XIXe siècle: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2025, 373 p
Introduction: Le Despotisme de l’Autre
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past
Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement of 1919 and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969 to shed light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book burning and bloodlett…
Disasters in Chinese history
Scholars in various disciplines have recognized that 'natural' disasters - and the extent to which natural hazards develop into humanitarian catastrophe - can reveal fundamental aspects of any particular government or society. What does history offer observers of disasters in contemporary China? What was the Chinese experience of environmental or natural disasters in pre-revolutionary or even premodern times? As recently as the early 2000s, the f…
Decentring international and institutional famine relief in late nineteenth-century China: In search of the local
This article uses rural gazetteer biographies to examine village and household-level famine relief during the great North China Famine of 1876–9 to deepen our understanding of past relief methods and dynamics at the most local level. Despite the appearance of major works recently on famine in modern China, particularly on the Great Leap Forward, knowledge of Chinese famine relief remains thin and scattered considering the enormity of the subject.…
Writing Disaster: A Chinese Earthquake and the Pitfalls of Historical Investigation
Gansu was an especially remote section of China for an earthquake to strike and 1920 a particularly chaotic time in the country’s history; consequently, one of the deadliest earthquakes of the twentieth century remains hardly known. In this recounting of his search for materials on the Haiyuan earthquake of December 1920, the author discusses the challenges and risks of piecing together a major event with only fragmentary evidence. When comparing…
Changing disaster relief regimes in China: An Analysis Using Four Famines Between 1876 and 1962
Once afflicted by frequent episodes of famine, China-particularly the Chinese state-is growing in importance as a player in the overseas aid and development sector. This paper examines four famines in modern China-defined as the period since the First Opium War of 1839-42-to shed light on the changing nature of state involvement in disaster relief in the country, while also demonstrating the breadth and diversity of relief agency in the past. It …
North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920-1921
This paper makes the case that in China's most severe food crisis of the first quarter of the twentieth century-the great north China famine of 1920-1921-considerable life-saving relief was generated by three largely-neglected segments of Chinese society: Buddhist and other native charity efforts working along parallel social channels to the better-publicized missionary and international relief groups; the Republic's much-maligned military establ…
Barren Soil, Fertile Minds’: North China Famine and Visions of the ‘Callous Chinese’ Circa 1920
Famine threatened the lives of over twenty million residents of north China in 1920, prompting a massive, and ultimately successful, relief effort. Scholarship on the famine has largely credited China's foreign and coastal, cosmopolitan Chinese circles with this humanitarian feat at the expense of what was in fact a surprisingly effective Chinese state apparatus that year, as well as local relief operations by many famine-stricken communities the…
North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920-1921
This paper makes the case that in China's most severe food crisis of the first quarter of the twentieth century-the great north China famine of 1920-1921-considerable life-saving relief was generated by three largely-neglected segments of Chinese society: Buddhist and other native charity efforts working along parallel social channels to the better-publicized missionary and international relief groups; the Republic's much-maligned military establ…
Writing Disaster: A Chinese Earthquake and the Pitfalls of Historical Investigation
Gansu was an especially remote section of China for an earthquake to strike and 1920 a particularly chaotic time in the country’s history; consequently, one of the deadliest earthquakes of the twentieth century remains hardly known. In this recounting of his search for materials on the Haiyuan earthquake of December 1920, the author discusses the challenges and risks of piecing together a major event with only fragmentary evidence. When comparing…
Changing disaster relief regimes in China: An Analysis Using Four Famines Between 1876 and 1962
Once afflicted by frequent episodes of famine, China-particularly the Chinese state-is growing in importance as a player in the overseas aid and development sector. This paper examines four famines in modern China-defined as the period since the First Opium War of 1839-42-to shed light on the changing nature of state involvement in disaster relief in the country, while also demonstrating the breadth and diversity of relief agency in the past. It …
Barren Soil, Fertile Minds’: North China Famine and Visions of the ‘Callous Chinese’ Circa 1920
Famine threatened the lives of over twenty million residents of north China in 1920, prompting a massive, and ultimately successful, relief effort. Scholarship on the famine has largely credited China's foreign and coastal, cosmopolitan Chinese circles with this humanitarian feat at the expense of what was in fact a surprisingly effective Chinese state apparatus that year, as well as local relief operations by many famine-stricken communities the…
North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920-1921
This paper makes the case that in China's most severe food crisis of the first quarter of the twentieth century-the great north China famine of 1920-1921-considerable life-saving relief was generated by three largely-neglected segments of Chinese society: Buddhist and other native charity efforts working along parallel social channels to the better-publicized missionary and international relief groups; the Republic's much-maligned military establ…
Decentring international and institutional famine relief in late nineteenth-century China: In search of the local
This article uses rural gazetteer biographies to examine village and household-level famine relief during the great North China Famine of 1876–9 to deepen our understanding of past relief methods and dynamics at the most local level. Despite the appearance of major works recently on famine in modern China, particularly on the Great Leap Forward, knowledge of Chinese famine relief remains thin and scattered considering the enormity of the subject.…
Writing Disaster: A Chinese Earthquake and the Pitfalls of Historical Investigation
Gansu was an especially remote section of China for an earthquake to strike and 1920 a particularly chaotic time in the country’s history; consequently, one of the deadliest earthquakes of the twentieth century remains hardly known. In this recounting of his search for materials on the Haiyuan earthquake of December 1920, the author discusses the challenges and risks of piecing together a major event with only fragmentary evidence. When comparing…
Changing disaster relief regimes in China: An Analysis Using Four Famines Between 1876 and 1962
Once afflicted by frequent episodes of famine, China-particularly the Chinese state-is growing in importance as a player in the overseas aid and development sector. This paper examines four famines in modern China-defined as the period since the First Opium War of 1839-42-to shed light on the changing nature of state involvement in disaster relief in the country, while also demonstrating the breadth and diversity of relief agency in the past. It …
Disasters in Chinese history
Scholars in various disciplines have recognized that 'natural' disasters - and the extent to which natural hazards develop into humanitarian catastrophe - can reveal fundamental aspects of any particular government or society. What does history offer observers of disasters in contemporary China? What was the Chinese experience of environmental or natural disasters in pre-revolutionary or even premodern times? As recently as the early 2000s, the f…
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past
Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement of 1919 and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969 to shed light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book burning and bloodlett…
Introduction: Le Despotisme de l’Autre
Clément Fabre, À l’ombre de la race. Chine, XIXe siècle: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2025, 373 p
History (7 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · China (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Famine (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works)