Michael Szonyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 518774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Szonyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Szonyi |
| SIGNATURE | SZONYI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0799-0601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Melissa Macauley. Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
Journal Article Melissa Macauley. Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier. Get access Melissa Macauley. Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 376. Paper $29.95. Michael Szonyi Michael Szonyi Harvard University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Rev…
The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations
China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? This book explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics. The book examines how soldiers and their families living on Chin…
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power
China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the stateHow did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretati…
A Companion to Chinese History
Family Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming and Qing Fujian
This work is the result of more than a decade of research on the Chinese household and lineage in the southeastern province of Fujian during the Ming and Qing period (1368-1911). It offers new interpretations of the Chinese domestic cycle, the relationship between household and larger kinship groups, and the development of lineage society in south China. Using hundreds of previously unknown lineage genealogies, stone inscriptions, and land deeds,…
The Cold War on the Ground: Reflections from Jinmen
The purpose of thisJASroundtable is to reflect on the Cold War in Asia. Even to frame the issue in such terms is to confront the "formidable semantic contradiction that is inherent in the idea" of the Cold War (Kwon 2010, 7). For the very notion of the Cold War-as a "long peace" in which bipolar tensions did not lead to hot war-sits uneasily with the reality that in Asia bipolar tensions were imbricated in horrific conflicts that left millions of…
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China; v. 22.; Ritual Alliances of the…
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China; v. 22.; Ritual Alliances of the…
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China; v. 22.; Ritual Alliances of the…
The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
This volume argues that attention to what were conventionally considered peripheral regions is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives that have defined Cold War Studies. © 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. All rights reserved
Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions
The author proposes a dialogue between recent literature on the history of Chinese popular religion and recent sociological debates about secularization theory, asking whether a better understanding of concepts, theories and evidence from one field may be productive in interpreting those of the other. The author suggests on the one hand that certain elements of secularization theory can be useful tools in understanding the modern history of relig…
Making Claims about Standardization and Orthopraxy in Late Imperial China: Rituals and Cults in the Fuzhou Region in Light of Watson’s Theories
This article presents research on popular cults and ancestral sacrifice from the Fuzhou region in order to reflect on James Watson’s theories of ortho-praxy and standardization. It argues that substantive standardization and adherence to orthopraxy should be distinguished analytically from claims to standardization and adherence to orthopraxy, that the historical sources sometimes indicate the latter rather than the former, and that the distincti…
A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by Ping-chen Hsiung
Mothers, Sons and Lovers: Fidelity and Frugality in the Overseas Chinese Divided Family Before 1949
The predominance of men, including married men, among Overseas Chinese emigrants gave rise to a distinctive family structure, in which the male emigrant lived apart from his wife and other family members who remained back home in China. This article considers two very different bodies of evidence, archives concerning Overseas Chinese efforts to recover property lost during World War II and magazines and newspapers published for Overseas Chinese i…
Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age
In the spring of 1987, the father of China's strategic missile program, Qian Xuesen, told colleagues that China must steel itself for a century of sustained intellectual warfare. His use of a military metaphor was not a linguistic quirk, but reflected the central role of the military in China's emergence as a modern state, especially in the period since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Over the course of the Communist …
Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, …
East Asia at the Centre: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
The Graveyard of Huang Xiulang: Early Twentieth Century Perspectives on the Role of the Overseas Chinese in Chinese Modernization
For more than a century, the importance of the economic and human capital generated in ethnic Chinese economies abroad to the modernization of China has been a subject of interest to political leaders, intellectuals and Overseas Chinese alike. This paper uses a collection of documents commemorating the construction of a distinctive cemetery by a prominent Overseas Chinese from Fujian to explore the early twentieth century discourse on the nature …
The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform
China's Leaders: The New Generation
China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia
China and Asia's Ethnic Chinese Asia's Ethnic Chinese: Characteristics and Networks Overseas Chinese Remittances and Investments China's Reform Era Policies Toward Ethnic Chinese and the Ethnic Chinese Response The Economic and Political Effects of Ethnic Chinese Investments in China International Implications of China's Policies and Ethnic Chinese Investments in China Economic Cooperation Between China and Singapore Conclusion Bibliography Index
The Illusion of Standardizing the Gods: The Cult of the Five Emperors in Late Imperial China
Nineteenth-century observers of the Fuzhou area, both Chinese and Western, were struck by the worship of a group of deities associated with pestilence and epidemic disease. The local people called these gods the Five Emperors (Wudi). To Justus Doolittle, an American missionary stationed in Fuzhou, Proclaimed Zuo Zongtang, Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang: "the rival societies for getting up processions to parade the idols have from the beg…
China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age
In the spring of 1987, the father of China's strategic missile program, Qian Xuesen, told colleagues that China must steel itself for a century of sustained intellectual warfare. His use of a military metaphor was not a linguistic quirk, but reflected the central role of the military in China's emergence as a modern state, especially in the period since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Over the course of the Communist …
Making Claims about Standardization and Orthopraxy in Late Imperial China: Rituals and Cults in the Fuzhou Region in Light of Watson’s Theories
This article presents research on popular cults and ancestral sacrifice from the Fuzhou region in order to reflect on James Watson’s theories of ortho-praxy and standardization. It argues that substantive standardization and adherence to orthopraxy should be distinguished analytically from claims to standardization and adherence to orthopraxy, that the historical sources sometimes indicate the latter rather than the former, and that the distincti…
Mothers, Sons and Lovers: Fidelity and Frugality in the Overseas Chinese Divided Family Before 1949
The predominance of men, including married men, among Overseas Chinese emigrants gave rise to a distinctive family structure, in which the male emigrant lived apart from his wife and other family members who remained back home in China. This article considers two very different bodies of evidence, archives concerning Overseas Chinese efforts to recover property lost during World War II and magazines and newspapers published for Overseas Chinese i…
China's Leaders: The New Generation
The Cold War on the Ground: Reflections from Jinmen
The purpose of thisJASroundtable is to reflect on the Cold War in Asia. Even to frame the issue in such terms is to confront the "formidable semantic contradiction that is inherent in the idea" of the Cold War (Kwon 2010, 7). For the very notion of the Cold War-as a "long peace" in which bipolar tensions did not lead to hot war-sits uneasily with the reality that in Asia bipolar tensions were imbricated in horrific conflicts that left millions of…
Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China, by Dorothy Ko
"Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China, by Dorothy Ko." Canadian Journal of History, 30(2), pp. 396–397
The Temple of Memories
The Illusion of Standardizing the Gods: The Cult of the Five Emperors in Late Imperial China
Nineteenth-century observers of the Fuzhou area, both Chinese and Western, were struck by the worship of a group of deities associated with pestilence and epidemic disease. The local people called these gods the Five Emperors (Wudi). To Justus Doolittle, an American missionary stationed in Fuzhou, Proclaimed Zuo Zongtang, Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang: "the rival societies for getting up processions to parade the idols have from the beg…
The Cult of Hu Tianbao and the Eighteenth-Century Discourse of Homosexuality
Late Imperial China - Volume 19, Number 1, June 1998
China's Transition
Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1937-1945 , by Pauline B. Keating
"Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1937-1945, by Pauline B. Keating." Canadian Journal of History, 34(3), pp. 502–503
Local Cult, Lijia , and Lineage: Religious and Social Organization in the Fuzhou Region in the Ming and Qing
China: The Years Ahead
THE AGE WHEN PROFESSIONAL CHINA WATCHERS could only peer over the border from Hong Kong is long over. Western analysts now have access to much more and much better information about the People's Republic of China. But does this necessarily translate into better informed or more rational analysis or analysis that is taken more seriously? In Canada, much of the discourse on China continues to be shaped by a curious admixture of grandiose expectatio…
China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia
China and Asia's Ethnic Chinese Asia's Ethnic Chinese: Characteristics and Networks Overseas Chinese Remittances and Investments China's Reform Era Policies Toward Ethnic Chinese and the Ethnic Chinese Response The Economic and Political Effects of Ethnic Chinese Investments in China International Implications of China's Policies and Ethnic Chinese Investments in China Economic Cooperation Between China and Singapore Conclusion Bibliography Index
The Graveyard of Huang Xiulang: Early Twentieth Century Perspectives on the Role of the Overseas Chinese in Chinese Modernization
For more than a century, the importance of the economic and human capital generated in ethnic Chinese economies abroad to the modernization of China has been a subject of interest to political leaders, intellectuals and Overseas Chinese alike. This paper uses a collection of documents commemorating the construction of a distinctive cemetery by a prominent Overseas Chinese from Fujian to explore the early twentieth century discourse on the nature …
The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform
China's Leaders: The New Generation
Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991 , by Gregory A. Ruf
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta , by Kathy Le Mons Walker
"Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta, by Kathy Le Mons Walker." Canadian Journal of History, 36(3), pp. 621–622
Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, …
East Asia at the Centre: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age
In the spring of 1987, the father of China's strategic missile program, Qian Xuesen, told colleagues that China must steel itself for a century of sustained intellectual warfare. His use of a military metaphor was not a linguistic quirk, but reflected the central role of the military in China's emergence as a modern state, especially in the period since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Over the course of the Communist …
Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Mothers, Sons and Lovers: Fidelity and Frugality in the Overseas Chinese Divided Family Before 1949
The predominance of men, including married men, among Overseas Chinese emigrants gave rise to a distinctive family structure, in which the male emigrant lived apart from his wife and other family members who remained back home in China. This article considers two very different bodies of evidence, archives concerning Overseas Chinese efforts to recover property lost during World War II and magazines and newspapers published for Overseas Chinese i…
A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by Ping-chen Hsiung
Making Claims about Standardization and Orthopraxy in Late Imperial China: Rituals and Cults in the Fuzhou Region in Light of Watson’s Theories
This article presents research on popular cults and ancestral sacrifice from the Fuzhou region in order to reflect on James Watson’s theories of ortho-praxy and standardization. It argues that substantive standardization and adherence to orthopraxy should be distinguished analytically from claims to standardization and adherence to orthopraxy, that the historical sources sometimes indicate the latter rather than the former, and that the distincti…
Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions
The author proposes a dialogue between recent literature on the history of Chinese popular religion and recent sociological debates about secularization theory, asking whether a better understanding of concepts, theories and evidence from one field may be productive in interpreting those of the other. The author suggests on the one hand that certain elements of secularization theory can be useful tools in understanding the modern history of relig…
The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
This volume argues that attention to what were conventionally considered peripheral regions is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives that have defined Cold War Studies. © 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. All rights reserved
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China; v. 22.; Ritual Alliances of the…
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century: The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4, China; v. 22.; Ritual Alliances of the…
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