Michael Tsin
Biographic Data
| ID | 619318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Tsin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsin |
| SIGNATURE | TSIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-3299-7716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Alekna . Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past by Pierre Fuller
How should we account for the violence and destruction unleashed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong in the 1960s? Most observers viewed the Cultural Revolution as an extreme manifestation of the Chinese Communist Party’s quest to free the country from imperialism and to build a new society. They usually explained its violence as a result of Maoist China’s rejection of everything old and Western, Mao’s own power struggle, his …
Xiaowei Zheng. The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China
Right at the outset of her book The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China, Xiaowei Zheng muses about the fact that “despite the succession of eleven central government constitutions and constitutional drafts written between 1908 and 1982, China has yet to attain constitutionalism” (1). To Zheng, drawing on the American model, constitutionalism means the institution of checks and balances between different branches of government that…
Chapter 2. Canton Remapped
Toby Lincoln. Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County
Toby Lincoln’s book on Wuxi—located about a hundred miles to the west of Shanghai—is well researched and informative. With a good eye for details, Lincoln tells the story of Wuxi city and its surrounding areas in the first half of the twentieth century. That was, needless to say, a period of sweeping political, economic, and social changes in China, and Wuxi’s experience was no exception. Indeed, Lincoln claims that “of all the cities in Jiangnan…
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924." The Chinese Historical Review, 23(2), pp. 165–166
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back …
Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China / A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
In our everyday life, we are constantly reminded of the importance of ‘hard data’ in making sense of the world around us. From evaluating economic development to performance of educational institut
An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China
An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China David Strand (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) One of the most interesting unanswered questions in modern Chinese his
Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927
Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927
This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. In retracing various fragments of the city’s history in this period, the book argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm. Modern government…
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927
This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. In retracing various fragments of the city’s history in this period, the book argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm. Modern government…
Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927
An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China
An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China David Strand (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) One of the most interesting unanswered questions in modern Chinese his
Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China / A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
In our everyday life, we are constantly reminded of the importance of ‘hard data’ in making sense of the world around us. From evaluating economic development to performance of educational institut
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back …
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924." The Chinese Historical Review, 23(2), pp. 165–166
Chapter 2. Canton Remapped
Toby Lincoln. Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County
Toby Lincoln’s book on Wuxi—located about a hundred miles to the west of Shanghai—is well researched and informative. With a good eye for details, Lincoln tells the story of Wuxi city and its surrounding areas in the first half of the twentieth century. That was, needless to say, a period of sweeping political, economic, and social changes in China, and Wuxi’s experience was no exception. Indeed, Lincoln claims that “of all the cities in Jiangnan…
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Xiaowei Zheng. The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China
Right at the outset of her book The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China, Xiaowei Zheng muses about the fact that “despite the succession of eleven central government constitutions and constitutional drafts written between 1908 and 1982, China has yet to attain constitutionalism” (1). To Zheng, drawing on the American model, constitutionalism means the institution of checks and balances between different branches of government that…
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past by Pierre Fuller
How should we account for the violence and destruction unleashed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong in the 1960s? Most observers viewed the Cultural Revolution as an extreme manifestation of the Chinese Communist Party’s quest to free the country from imperialism and to build a new society. They usually explained its violence as a result of Maoist China’s rejection of everything old and Western, Mao’s own power struggle, his …
John Alekna . Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
Chinese history and philosophy (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · China (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)