Zhongping Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhongping Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhongping |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0235-1907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: A Conversation with Zhongping Chen
The Chinese “Discovery” of the Americas, Zheng He’s Voyages to the Indian Ocean, and Early Globalization
This article undertakes a thorough investigation of the assertion in recent publications, both Chinese and foreign, that Zheng He’s fleet “discovered” the Americas, and traces it back to its origins. It comprehensively examines all the major arguments that have been made concerning the question of whether Chinese people sailed to the Americas before Cristopher Columbus, from the pre-Qin dynasty to the early Ming dynasty. It reveals both contribut…
Toward a Global Network Revolution: Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages and Tribute-Trade Relations between China and the Indian Ocean World
Using newly developed concepts of network theory, this paper tries to advance the theoretical analysis of Zheng He’s seven epic voyages across the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433, and to resolve some long-debated key issues on the subject. It also attempts to reveal how Zheng He helped change Sino-foreign relations in the early fifteenth century by developing tribute-trade networks overseas, and thereby influenced the history of China, the Ind…
Kang Youwei’s Activities in Canada and the Reformist Movement Among the Global Chinese Diaspora, 1899–1909
Kang Youwei's successive visits to Canada from 1899 initiated a reformist movement among the worldwide Chinese diaspora for over a decade. But his Canadian experience has long been neglected, and the overseas Chinese movement has often been downplayed as an extension or even regression from the abortive 1898 Reform. The rise and fall of the movement have been ascribed respectively to Kang's reformist mobilization for monarchist patriotism and to …
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography provides a multidisciplinary guide to publications on this great navigator’s activities and their impact on Chinese and world history. Admiral Zheng He commanded the fifteenth-century world’s largest fleet. In the course of seven voyages made between 1405 and 1433, his massive ships visited over thirty present-day countries in As…
The May Fourth Movement and Provincial Warlords: A Reexamination
This article reexamines the relationship between the May Fourth Movement and warlordism by questioning the long-held assumption that the movement was from its inception as anti-warlord as it was anti-imperialist. In particular, it shows that popular nationalism before and at the beginning of the May Fourth Movement received continual support from many provincial warlords under and beyond the nominal control of the Beijing government. It demonstra…
Beneath the Republican Revolution, Beyond Revolutionary Politics: Elite Associations and Social Transformations in Lower Yangzi Towns, 1903-1912
Previous studies of the 1911 Revolution have usually focused on its national and metropolitan contexts but have rarely paid attention to its local arenas, such as market towns. They also have tended to stress political and cultural changes rather than the social transformation that occurred during this revolutionary movement. The prevalent opinion in early studies is that social regress shadowed the era because social elites, especially those at …
Building the Chinese Diaspora across Canada: Chinese Diasporic Discourse and the Case of Peterborough, Ontario
It has become a vogue for scholars to describe and analyze Chinese migration and migrants under the term "diaspora." However, most previous studies have focused on the Chinese diaspora in a global, national, or metropolitan context and neglected the diasporic phenomenon as manifested in towns and small cities. A major purpose of this essay, therefore, is to fill the gap in the diasporic scholarship concerning small, localized communities by exami…
Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora
Wei DjaoTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003, xxi, 240pp, US$22.95 (ISBN 0-8165-2302-9)The Chinese diaspora is a global phenomenon. However, previous studies have rarely approached this subject from a global perspective. Wei Djao's book is based on her interviews with descendants of Chinese emigrants who moved from China to other countries in five different continents between 1842 and 1949. Through the personal voices of these interviewees, …
The Quest for Elite Dominance, Associational Autonomy and Public Representation: The Lower Yangzi Chambers of Commerce in the 1911 Revolution
(2002). The Quest for Elite Dominance, Associational Autonomy and Public Representation: The Lower Yangzi Chambers of Commerce in the 1911 Revolution. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 41-77
The Origins of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region
Chinese chambers of commerce have long been the focal point of previous studies of guild organizations, the bourgeois class, and government-business relations in the late Qing period (Xu Dingxin, 1986; Zhao Hongbao, 1993). Recently, scholars have also cited them as proof of a public sphere or civil society in late imperial and Republican China (Rankin, 1986; Rowe, 1990; Strand, 1989; Zhu Ying, 1997). Although these mercantile organizations have r…
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography provides a multidisciplinary guide to publications on this great navigator’s activities and their impact on Chinese and world history. Admiral Zheng He commanded the fifteenth-century world’s largest fleet. In the course of seven voyages made between 1405 and 1433, his massive ships visited over thirty present-day countries in As…
The May Fourth Movement and Provincial Warlords: A Reexamination
This article reexamines the relationship between the May Fourth Movement and warlordism by questioning the long-held assumption that the movement was from its inception as anti-warlord as it was anti-imperialist. In particular, it shows that popular nationalism before and at the beginning of the May Fourth Movement received continual support from many provincial warlords under and beyond the nominal control of the Beijing government. It demonstra…
Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora
Wei DjaoTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003, xxi, 240pp, US$22.95 (ISBN 0-8165-2302-9)The Chinese diaspora is a global phenomenon. However, previous studies have rarely approached this subject from a global perspective. Wei Djao's book is based on her interviews with descendants of Chinese emigrants who moved from China to other countries in five different continents between 1842 and 1949. Through the personal voices of these interviewees, …
Toward a Global Network Revolution: Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages and Tribute-Trade Relations between China and the Indian Ocean World
Using newly developed concepts of network theory, this paper tries to advance the theoretical analysis of Zheng He’s seven epic voyages across the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433, and to resolve some long-debated key issues on the subject. It also attempts to reveal how Zheng He helped change Sino-foreign relations in the early fifteenth century by developing tribute-trade networks overseas, and thereby influenced the history of China, the Ind…
Building the Chinese Diaspora across Canada: Chinese Diasporic Discourse and the Case of Peterborough, Ontario
It has become a vogue for scholars to describe and analyze Chinese migration and migrants under the term "diaspora." However, most previous studies have focused on the Chinese diaspora in a global, national, or metropolitan context and neglected the diasporic phenomenon as manifested in towns and small cities. A major purpose of this essay, therefore, is to fill the gap in the diasporic scholarship concerning small, localized communities by exami…
The Origins of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region
Chinese chambers of commerce have long been the focal point of previous studies of guild organizations, the bourgeois class, and government-business relations in the late Qing period (Xu Dingxin, 1986; Zhao Hongbao, 1993). Recently, scholars have also cited them as proof of a public sphere or civil society in late imperial and Republican China (Rankin, 1986; Rowe, 1990; Strand, 1989; Zhu Ying, 1997). Although these mercantile organizations have r…
The Origins of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region
Chinese chambers of commerce have long been the focal point of previous studies of guild organizations, the bourgeois class, and government-business relations in the late Qing period (Xu Dingxin, 1986; Zhao Hongbao, 1993). Recently, scholars have also cited them as proof of a public sphere or civil society in late imperial and Republican China (Rankin, 1986; Rowe, 1990; Strand, 1989; Zhu Ying, 1997). Although these mercantile organizations have r…
The Quest for Elite Dominance, Associational Autonomy and Public Representation: The Lower Yangzi Chambers of Commerce in the 1911 Revolution
(2002). The Quest for Elite Dominance, Associational Autonomy and Public Representation: The Lower Yangzi Chambers of Commerce in the 1911 Revolution. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 41-77
Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora
Wei DjaoTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003, xxi, 240pp, US$22.95 (ISBN 0-8165-2302-9)The Chinese diaspora is a global phenomenon. However, previous studies have rarely approached this subject from a global perspective. Wei Djao's book is based on her interviews with descendants of Chinese emigrants who moved from China to other countries in five different continents between 1842 and 1949. Through the personal voices of these interviewees, …
Building the Chinese Diaspora across Canada: Chinese Diasporic Discourse and the Case of Peterborough, Ontario
It has become a vogue for scholars to describe and analyze Chinese migration and migrants under the term "diaspora." However, most previous studies have focused on the Chinese diaspora in a global, national, or metropolitan context and neglected the diasporic phenomenon as manifested in towns and small cities. A major purpose of this essay, therefore, is to fill the gap in the diasporic scholarship concerning small, localized communities by exami…
Beneath the Republican Revolution, Beyond Revolutionary Politics: Elite Associations and Social Transformations in Lower Yangzi Towns, 1903-1912
Previous studies of the 1911 Revolution have usually focused on its national and metropolitan contexts but have rarely paid attention to its local arenas, such as market towns. They also have tended to stress political and cultural changes rather than the social transformation that occurred during this revolutionary movement. The prevalent opinion in early studies is that social regress shadowed the era because social elites, especially those at …
The May Fourth Movement and Provincial Warlords: A Reexamination
This article reexamines the relationship between the May Fourth Movement and warlordism by questioning the long-held assumption that the movement was from its inception as anti-warlord as it was anti-imperialist. In particular, it shows that popular nationalism before and at the beginning of the May Fourth Movement received continual support from many provincial warlords under and beyond the nominal control of the Beijing government. It demonstra…
Kang Youwei’s Activities in Canada and the Reformist Movement Among the Global Chinese Diaspora, 1899–1909
Kang Youwei's successive visits to Canada from 1899 initiated a reformist movement among the worldwide Chinese diaspora for over a decade. But his Canadian experience has long been neglected, and the overseas Chinese movement has often been downplayed as an extension or even regression from the abortive 1898 Reform. The rise and fall of the movement have been ascribed respectively to Kang's reformist mobilization for monarchist patriotism and to …
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography
Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography provides a multidisciplinary guide to publications on this great navigator’s activities and their impact on Chinese and world history. Admiral Zheng He commanded the fifteenth-century world’s largest fleet. In the course of seven voyages made between 1405 and 1433, his massive ships visited over thirty present-day countries in As…
Toward a Global Network Revolution: Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages and Tribute-Trade Relations between China and the Indian Ocean World
Using newly developed concepts of network theory, this paper tries to advance the theoretical analysis of Zheng He’s seven epic voyages across the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433, and to resolve some long-debated key issues on the subject. It also attempts to reveal how Zheng He helped change Sino-foreign relations in the early fifteenth century by developing tribute-trade networks overseas, and thereby influenced the history of China, the Ind…
The Chinese “Discovery” of the Americas, Zheng He’s Voyages to the Indian Ocean, and Early Globalization
This article undertakes a thorough investigation of the assertion in recent publications, both Chinese and foreign, that Zheng He’s fleet “discovered” the Americas, and traces it back to its origins. It comprehensively examines all the major arguments that have been made concerning the question of whether Chinese people sailed to the Americas before Cristopher Columbus, from the pre-Qin dynasty to the early Ming dynasty. It reveals both contribut…
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: A Conversation with Zhongping Chen
A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911
Political science (11 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · China (7 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)