William C Kirby
Biographic Data
| ID | 545530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Kirby |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirby |
| SIGNATURE | KIRBY W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: International Innovation & American Challenges
We often measure the strength of nations by GDP or by the size of armies, navies, and air forces. But it can also be measured in the realm of ideas. Today, the influence of a nation may be gauged by the strength of its universities and the ability to develop and attract talent. The foremost global powers of the last three centuries have all been leaders of scholarship and learning. In the nineteenth century, the modern research university born in…
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power
The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education in China and the West
Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, not the least in the field of higher education, regarding international cooperation. Meanwhile, China is publicly seeking to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads, to…
Engineering China: Birth of the Development State, 1928–1937
In December 1926, the engineer Peter Palchinsky wrote to the prime minister of the Soviet Union. Science and technology, he argued, did more—even than Communism!—to shape modern society. The National Government aimed to make its mark on China first in its new national capital, the old "southern capital," or Nanjing. A National Capital Reconstruction Commission was organized in 1929 to carry out a six-year plan to build municipal services, parks, …
The Chinese Century? The Challenges of Higher Education
One can find in any airport kiosk books that proclaim ours to be “the Chinese century.” We have titles such as “The Dragon Awakes,” “China's Rise,” “The Rise of China,” and “China's Ascent,” to name but a few. But to rise is not necessarily to lead. What constitutes leadership? In higher education, China is building the fastest growing system–in quality as well as in quantity–in the world. The foremost global powers of the past four centuries all…
The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment
On Chinese, European & American universities
past three decades have seen an unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring.1 My own university, Harvard, has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the 1⁄2rst time in thirty years. European universities have witnessed even more thoroughgoing changes in the structure of undergraduate education. But perhaps nowhere on earth have recent decades seen mo…
China's Internationalization in the Early People's Republic: Dreams of a Socialist World Economy
The People's Republic of China, like the Chinese Communist Party that ruled it, was from its conception internationalist in premise and in promise. The PRC in its formative years would be Moscow's most faithful and self-sacrificing ally, a distinction earned in blood in Korea and by the fact that, unlike the East European “people's democracies,” the PRC's allegiance was not bought at gunpoint. This article researches one of the most ambitious int…
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
China’s Wartime History: Notes on International Efforts for Preservation and Access
The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations At Home and Abroad in the Republican Era
Nothing mattered more. Chinese history during the era of the first Republic was defined and shaped - and must ultimately be interpreted - according to the nature of its foreign relations. While few would dispute the contributions of what Paul Cohen has called a “more interior approach”1 to modern Chinese historical studies in the past two decades, there is no point searching for some uniquely “China-centred” historical narrative for this period. …
China Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China
On April 22, 1903, the qing court ordered zai-zhen, a Manchu prince; Yuan Shikai, the most powerful Chinese Governor-General of the realm; and Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, to compile a commercial code. The edict charging them with this responsibility noted that "of the many government functions, the most important is to facilitate commerce and help industries" (Li 1974a:210). On January 21, 1904, the newly cr…
Continuity and Change in Modern China: Economic Planning on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1943-1958
Agriculture and Food Supply in the Second World War/Landwirtschaft Und Versorgung im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Germany and Republican China
Germany and Republican China
IntroductionThe history of China since the mid-nineteenth century has been closely intertwined with global economic, political, and intellectual developments. Despite its best efforts and better judgment, the Ch'ing dynasty was forced to deal with the West on the West's own terms, even as it sought to acquire the most obvious elements of Western strength without jeopardizing its own cultural and institutional uniqueness. For Republican government…
Germany and Republican China
China Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China
On April 22, 1903, the qing court ordered zai-zhen, a Manchu prince; Yuan Shikai, the most powerful Chinese Governor-General of the realm; and Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, to compile a commercial code. The edict charging them with this responsibility noted that "of the many government functions, the most important is to facilitate commerce and help industries" (Li 1974a:210). On January 21, 1904, the newly cr…
The Chinese Century? The Challenges of Higher Education
One can find in any airport kiosk books that proclaim ours to be “the Chinese century.” We have titles such as “The Dragon Awakes,” “China's Rise,” “The Rise of China,” and “China's Ascent,” to name but a few. But to rise is not necessarily to lead. What constitutes leadership? In higher education, China is building the fastest growing system–in quality as well as in quantity–in the world. The foremost global powers of the past four centuries all…
The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education in China and the West
Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, not the least in the field of higher education, regarding international cooperation. Meanwhile, China is publicly seeking to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads, to…
On Chinese, European & American universities
past three decades have seen an unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring.1 My own university, Harvard, has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the 1⁄2rst time in thirty years. European universities have witnessed even more thoroughgoing changes in the structure of undergraduate education. But perhaps nowhere on earth have recent decades seen mo…
Germany and Republican China
Germany and Republican China
IntroductionThe history of China since the mid-nineteenth century has been closely intertwined with global economic, political, and intellectual developments. Despite its best efforts and better judgment, the Ch'ing dynasty was forced to deal with the West on the West's own terms, even as it sought to acquire the most obvious elements of Western strength without jeopardizing its own cultural and institutional uniqueness. For Republican government…
Germany and Republican China
Agriculture and Food Supply in the Second World War/Landwirtschaft Und Versorgung im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Continuity and Change in Modern China: Economic Planning on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1943-1958
China Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China
On April 22, 1903, the qing court ordered zai-zhen, a Manchu prince; Yuan Shikai, the most powerful Chinese Governor-General of the realm; and Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, to compile a commercial code. The edict charging them with this responsibility noted that "of the many government functions, the most important is to facilitate commerce and help industries" (Li 1974a:210). On January 21, 1904, the newly cr…
The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations At Home and Abroad in the Republican Era
Nothing mattered more. Chinese history during the era of the first Republic was defined and shaped - and must ultimately be interpreted - according to the nature of its foreign relations. While few would dispute the contributions of what Paul Cohen has called a “more interior approach”1 to modern Chinese historical studies in the past two decades, there is no point searching for some uniquely “China-centred” historical narrative for this period. …
China’s Wartime History: Notes on International Efforts for Preservation and Access
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
China's Internationalization in the Early People's Republic: Dreams of a Socialist World Economy
The People's Republic of China, like the Chinese Communist Party that ruled it, was from its conception internationalist in premise and in promise. The PRC in its formative years would be Moscow's most faithful and self-sacrificing ally, a distinction earned in blood in Korea and by the fact that, unlike the East European “people's democracies,” the PRC's allegiance was not bought at gunpoint. This article researches one of the most ambitious int…
On Chinese, European & American universities
past three decades have seen an unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring.1 My own university, Harvard, has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the 1⁄2rst time in thirty years. European universities have witnessed even more thoroughgoing changes in the structure of undergraduate education. But perhaps nowhere on earth have recent decades seen mo…
The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment
The Chinese Century? The Challenges of Higher Education
One can find in any airport kiosk books that proclaim ours to be “the Chinese century.” We have titles such as “The Dragon Awakes,” “China's Rise,” “The Rise of China,” and “China's Ascent,” to name but a few. But to rise is not necessarily to lead. What constitutes leadership? In higher education, China is building the fastest growing system–in quality as well as in quantity–in the world. The foremost global powers of the past four centuries all…
Engineering China: Birth of the Development State, 1928–1937
In December 1926, the engineer Peter Palchinsky wrote to the prime minister of the Soviet Union. Science and technology, he argued, did more—even than Communism!—to shape modern society. The National Government aimed to make its mark on China first in its new national capital, the old "southern capital," or Nanjing. A National Capital Reconstruction Commission was organized in 1929 to carry out a six-year plan to build municipal services, parks, …
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power
The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education in China and the West
Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, not the least in the field of higher education, regarding international cooperation. Meanwhile, China is publicly seeking to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads, to…
Introduction: International Innovation & American Challenges
We often measure the strength of nations by GDP or by the size of armies, navies, and air forces. But it can also be measured in the realm of ideas. Today, the influence of a nation may be gauged by the strength of its universities and the ability to develop and attract talent. The foremost global powers of the last three centuries have all been leaders of scholarship and learning. In the nineteenth century, the modern research university born in…
China (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works)