Peter Zarrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 461896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Zarrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Zarrow |
| SIGNATURE | ZARROW P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China’s Heritage through History: Reconfigured Pasts
Prospects for a Chilly War: China Advice at the Dawn of the Biden Era
In late 2020 and early 2021—the weeks surrounding the election of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.—a flood of China experts offered an incalculable amount of unsolicited advice to the new administration. With the exception of Taiwan, the differences between doves and hawks were extremely slight, resting more on tone than substance. Policy directions they presented largely followed those of the Trump administration minus the U.S. version of wolf dipl…
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper
Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940
Liang Qichao and the Notion of Civil Society in Republican China
After the Revolution of 1911, the famous intellectual Liang Qichao (1873–1929) quickly abandoned his support for constitutional monarchism and became a participant in the politics of the early republic. Liang was interested in the formal mechanisms of republicanism. He did not use the term “civil society,” and insofar as civil society is defined in terms of institutions or social group’s intermediary between the state and private life, it was of …
Notes on Heritage and History in Modern China
The explosion of heritage sites, museums, and what might be called "heritage consciousness" since the beginnings of the Reform Era in the 1980s should be incorporated into historical understandings of modern China. Historians have tended to neglect the story of heritage in China, while anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of other disciplines, in spite of rich research, seldom treat heritagization in its full historical context. The study o…
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
After Empire offers a new analysis of how Chinese thinkers constructed a modern constitutional state in place of the age-old imperial state at the turn of the twentieth century, and the revolutionary processes thereby engendered
Shakhar Rahav. The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China: May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics
How did Chinese intellectuals move from small short-lived associations to mass political parties? How did the focus of their concerns change from individual morality to social revolution? Shakhar Rahav analyzes the social networks established by young Chinese radicals in the wake of the 1911 Revolution. Focusing on the relatively unknown Wuhan activist Yun Daiying (1895–1931), Rahav recreates the short-lived but emotionally intense organizations …
Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937
In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural, and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a rapidly changing society in the first decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on language, morality and civics, history, and geography, Zarrow shows that t…
Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in TwentiethCentury China
Chinese press accounts of the 1911 Revolution: Seeing ‘revolution’
By examining how a particular story of events from October 1911 through to the abdication of the Qing imperial house in February 1912 was constructed, it is possible to suggest the effects of that story both as events unfolded and on subsequent historical consciousness. This article examines the coverage of the revolution in two newspapers, Shenbao, founded in Shanghai in 1872, and Dagongbao, founded in Tianjin in 1902. They were not necessarily …
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
Social and political developments: The making of the twentieth-century Chinese state
Over the course of China's twentieth century, the dynastic system crumbled; the traditional literati-gentry elite disappeared; state-society relations were transformed several times; three revolutions - of 1911, 1928 and 1949 - created new systems of governance; and a modernizing nation-state emerged. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, an economically dynamic China looked very different from the vast agrarian empire that had survived i…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the interconnected nature of the different cultural forms, fro…
Anti-Despotism and “Rights Talk: The Intellectual Origins of Modern Human Rights Thinking in the Late Qing
During the last years of the Qing dynasty, intellectuals began to refer to the notion of “human rights” with increasing frequency, and it soon became, in effect, indigenized. In this process, Chinese intellectuals forged a modern conception of rights that was not identical to today's notions but treated rights as morally necessary, along with duties, for any decent society. Rights talk spread rapidly because it was a powerful tool for the critiqu…
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and…
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World . Rana Mitter
Historical Trauma: Anti-Manchuism and Memories of Atrocity in Late Qing China
In April 1644 the reigning emperor of Ming-dynasty China committed suicide as massive rebel armies invaded Beijing. By the end of that year the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), led by Manchus, had defeated the rebel armies and remnant Ming forces in and near the capital and had seated a new emperor on the throne in the Forbidden City. They had taken control of northern China and were well on their way to imposing their authority in the south as well. Th…
Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century . Rebecca E. Karl
Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China
Rethinking the 1898 reform period: Political and cultural change in late Qing China
The nine essays in this volume reexamine the hundred days in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernising China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the wo…
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai 1912-1937 . Xiaoqun Xu
And never the twain shall meet
Alain Grosrichard. The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East (trans. Liz Heron). London and New York: Verso, 1998. xxvii, 222 pp. A$35.00, paper. J.J. Clarke. Oriental Enlightenment: the Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. vii, 273 pp. £45.00, hardcover; £12.99, paper. Andrew Gerstle and Anthony Milner, eds. Recovering the Orient: artists, Scholars, Appropriations. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood…
Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile
Research Article| February 01 1999 Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile Peter Zarrow Peter Zarrow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 165–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Zarrow; Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile. positions 1 February 1999; 7 (1): 165–191. doi: http…
The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China: The Emergence of New Approaches
How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity understandable through the similarly structured human mind. It involves a reliance on antecedent and authoritarian models, coupled with an introspective focus in investigations, at some cost to objective fact gathering.\n In con…
He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China
Anarchists publishing in small student journals in the years before the 1911 Revolution made a significant contribution to Chinese feminism. They linked feminism to their call for a complete social revolution; they understood the oppression of women in China to be linked to modern class divisions and economic exploitation as well as traditional culture. They discussed the relationships among feminism, individual rights, and political liberties. H…
Anti-Despotism and “Rights Talk: The Intellectual Origins of Modern Human Rights Thinking in the Late Qing
During the last years of the Qing dynasty, intellectuals began to refer to the notion of “human rights” with increasing frequency, and it soon became, in effect, indigenized. In this process, Chinese intellectuals forged a modern conception of rights that was not identical to today's notions but treated rights as morally necessary, along with duties, for any decent society. Rights talk spread rapidly because it was a powerful tool for the critiqu…
Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940
Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile
Research Article| February 01 1999 Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile Peter Zarrow Peter Zarrow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 165–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Zarrow; Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile. positions 1 February 1999; 7 (1): 165–191. doi: http…
He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China
Anarchists publishing in small student journals in the years before the 1911 Revolution made a significant contribution to Chinese feminism. They linked feminism to their call for a complete social revolution; they understood the oppression of women in China to be linked to modern class divisions and economic exploitation as well as traditional culture. They discussed the relationships among feminism, individual rights, and political liberties. H…
Social change and radical currentsin republican China, 1912–49
The spring 1989 antigovernment demonstrations and the June Fourth Massacre at Tiananmen Square require that most scholars rethink their conceptions of Chinese political culture and the Chinese revolution. Did the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the head of a social revolution give it legitimacy? What does it take to maintain that legitimacy? What are the roots of the state created since 1949? Decollectivization and economic …
Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture
Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ancient Rome, covering a range of over 1,000 years of Roman culture, from the foundation of the city to its sacking by the Goths.The selections cover a broad spectrum of…
Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China, by David E. Apter and Tony Saich
As early as Edgar Snow's pioneering Red Star over China (1937), Yan'an was seen as the “defining moment” of the Chinese Communists' rise to power. Beginning in 1935, Mao Zedong set his personal imprint on the party as he successfully guided it from the disaster of the Long March to the “Congress of Victors” in 1945. This set the stage for the final showdown with Chiang Kai-shek and the hapless Nationalists in the civil war of 1946-49. With the vi…
Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile
Research Article| February 01 1999 Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile Peter Zarrow Peter Zarrow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 165–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Zarrow; Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile. positions 1 February 1999; 7 (1): 165–191. doi: http…
The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China: The Emergence of New Approaches
How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity understandable through the similarly structured human mind. It involves a reliance on antecedent and authoritarian models, coupled with an introspective focus in investigations, at some cost to objective fact gathering.\n In con…
And never the twain shall meet
Alain Grosrichard. The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East (trans. Liz Heron). London and New York: Verso, 1998. xxvii, 222 pp. A$35.00, paper. J.J. Clarke. Oriental Enlightenment: the Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. vii, 273 pp. £45.00, hardcover; £12.99, paper. Andrew Gerstle and Anthony Milner, eds. Recovering the Orient: artists, Scholars, Appropriations. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood…
Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China
Rethinking the 1898 reform period: Political and cultural change in late Qing China
The nine essays in this volume reexamine the hundred days in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernising China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the wo…
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai 1912-1937 . Xiaoqun Xu
Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century . Rebecca E. Karl
Historical Trauma: Anti-Manchuism and Memories of Atrocity in Late Qing China
In April 1644 the reigning emperor of Ming-dynasty China committed suicide as massive rebel armies invaded Beijing. By the end of that year the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), led by Manchus, had defeated the rebel armies and remnant Ming forces in and near the capital and had seated a new emperor on the throne in the Forbidden City. They had taken control of northern China and were well on their way to imposing their authority in the south as well. Th…
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and…
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World . Rana Mitter
Social and political developments: The making of the twentieth-century Chinese state
Over the course of China's twentieth century, the dynastic system crumbled; the traditional literati-gentry elite disappeared; state-society relations were transformed several times; three revolutions - of 1911, 1928 and 1949 - created new systems of governance; and a modernizing nation-state emerged. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, an economically dynamic China looked very different from the vast agrarian empire that had survived i…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the interconnected nature of the different cultural forms, fro…
Anti-Despotism and “Rights Talk: The Intellectual Origins of Modern Human Rights Thinking in the Late Qing
During the last years of the Qing dynasty, intellectuals began to refer to the notion of “human rights” with increasing frequency, and it soon became, in effect, indigenized. In this process, Chinese intellectuals forged a modern conception of rights that was not identical to today's notions but treated rights as morally necessary, along with duties, for any decent society. Rights talk spread rapidly because it was a powerful tool for the critiqu…
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
Chinese press accounts of the 1911 Revolution: Seeing ‘revolution’
By examining how a particular story of events from October 1911 through to the abdication of the Qing imperial house in February 1912 was constructed, it is possible to suggest the effects of that story both as events unfolded and on subsequent historical consciousness. This article examines the coverage of the revolution in two newspapers, Shenbao, founded in Shanghai in 1872, and Dagongbao, founded in Tianjin in 1902. They were not necessarily …
Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in TwentiethCentury China
Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937
In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural, and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a rapidly changing society in the first decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on language, morality and civics, history, and geography, Zarrow shows that t…
Shakhar Rahav. The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China: May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics
How did Chinese intellectuals move from small short-lived associations to mass political parties? How did the focus of their concerns change from individual morality to social revolution? Shakhar Rahav analyzes the social networks established by young Chinese radicals in the wake of the 1911 Revolution. Focusing on the relatively unknown Wuhan activist Yun Daiying (1895–1931), Rahav recreates the short-lived but emotionally intense organizations …
Liang Qichao and the Notion of Civil Society in Republican China
After the Revolution of 1911, the famous intellectual Liang Qichao (1873–1929) quickly abandoned his support for constitutional monarchism and became a participant in the politics of the early republic. Liang was interested in the formal mechanisms of republicanism. He did not use the term “civil society,” and insofar as civil society is defined in terms of institutions or social group’s intermediary between the state and private life, it was of …
Notes on Heritage and History in Modern China
The explosion of heritage sites, museums, and what might be called "heritage consciousness" since the beginnings of the Reform Era in the 1980s should be incorporated into historical understandings of modern China. Historians have tended to neglect the story of heritage in China, while anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of other disciplines, in spite of rich research, seldom treat heritagization in its full historical context. The study o…
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
After Empire offers a new analysis of how Chinese thinkers constructed a modern constitutional state in place of the age-old imperial state at the turn of the twentieth century, and the revolutionary processes thereby engendered
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