William T Rowe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 529180 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William T Rowe |
| PRENOMES | William T |
| SOBRENOME | Rowe |
| ASSINATURA | ROWE W T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
In Memory
In Memory of Mary Rankin William T. Rowe On March 9, 2020, Dr. Mary Backus Rankin died after a long illness. A student of John King Fairbank at Harvard, from which institution she received her Ph.D. in 1966, Mary Rankin was one of the most important American historians of late imperial and modern China. She was also for more than a half century a beloved mentor to younger scholars, and a pillar of Chinese studies in the mid-Atlantic region. Mary'…
The Soul in Eighteenth-Century China
The Soul in Eighteenth-Century China:Depei's Confucian Christianity* William T. Rowe Every society, wrote the French sinologist Jacques Gernet in 1985, is "founded upon a body of traditions accepted by all its members," who naturalize and internalize those traditions so that they become "an inherent part of social behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and even languages." Different languages thus "express, through different logics, different vi…
Perspectives on a Changing China
Perspectives on a Changing China
Urban agency in early modern and modern China
I am what Chinese would call a waihang (outsider to the guild) in this discussion, neither a specialist in European urban history nor up-to-date on the body of critical social theory that informs much of the discussion in the roundtable. Therefore, I see my role here as primarily presenting a comparative case – China – and only incidentally engaging with the theoretical aspects of the discussion
China
By 1300 China hosted several of the largest cities in the world, and was arguably the world's most urbanized society. These cities did not enjoy nor had they explicitly sought ‘autonomy’ from encompassing political regimes, but they did enjoy a modest amount of practical communal self-management. This article focuses on China's urban history under the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) empires, which continued these developments. The commercia…
Rewriting the Qing Constitution
In 1801, with Heshen recently deposed and the Jiaqing emperor having assumed his personal rule, a young household tutor named Bao Shichen wrote an ambitious essay— Shuochu (On Wealth)—laying out the reforms he believed would set the Qing empire back on the path to political strength and economic prosperity. Although Bao would go on to achieve celebrity as a reformist advisor to high-ranking policy-makers, this particular work, in which he present…
Introduction
Introduction: The Significance of the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition in Qing History William T. Rowe (bio) Over the past decades, we have learned a great deal about the Qing’s “prosperous age” (shengshi) of the eighteenth century, and about the first kaifang era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But the first half of the nineteenth century, and especially the reign of the Jiaqing emperor (1796–1820) have, in general, attracted mu…
China's Last Empire
China's Last Empire
Money, Economy, and Polity in the Daoguang-Era Paper Currency Debates
Over the course of the Daoguang reign, the Qing Empire experienced a net outflow of between one and one-and-a-half million yuanof silver due to its maritime trade with the West, largely in payment for opium. The results included destabilization of the domestic currency market, a general deflation of commodity prices, declines in production, increased unemployment, displacement of the labor force, rising land tax burdens, and, some argue, a rapid …
Tears from Iron
The price of rice
Empire, Nation, and beyond
Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History
Perhaps best known today as a pioneering scholar of Inner Asia and a victim of the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, Owen Lattimore was more basically, like his friend Arnold Toynbee, a major player in the vogue of comparative history that captured wide public attention in the second quarter of the twentieth century. His lifelong intellectual project was to develop a "scientific" model of the way human societies form, evolve, grow, decline, muta…
Crimson Rain
This brilliantly crafted narrative explores the roots of violence in Chinese rural society over the past seven hundred years, based on the study of a single highland county, Macheng, Hubei province, in the Great Divide Mountains separating the Yangzi valley from the North China Plain. Between the expulsion of the Mongols in the mid-fourteenth century and the invasion of the Japanese in 1938, Macheng experienced repeated, often self-inflicted wave…
Steven C. Averill (April 1, 1945–September 17, 2004)
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Saving the World
Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Being a Man: 1. Home 2. Politics 3. First things 4. Study Part II. Creating Prosperity: 5. Food 6. Economics 7. Production 8. Accumulation Part III. Ordering the World: 9. People 10. Governance 11. Community 12. Civilization Conclusion Notes References Character List Index
Social Stability and Social Change
The early and mid-Ch'ing era was one of extraordinary social dynamism and, indeed, transformation. The single dominating fact of early and mid-Ch'ing social history is population growth. This chapter explores division of geographic mobility into two varieties: permanent migration for resettlement, and relocation conceived by the party as a temporary sojourn. Hunan's early Ch'ing commercial boom led to far more pronounced social stratification, bu…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between e…
Saving the World
Saving the World
Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general, governor, or in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a “model official.” In this magisterial study, the author draws on Chen’s life and career to answer a range of questions: What did mid-Qin…
Civilizing Chengdu
This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centred politics, focusing on the new policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1930s. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly available archival sources, of the process of urban reform in Chengdu, …
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (review)
Reviewed by: Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China William T. Rowe Carol Benedict. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx + 256 pp. Ill. $39.50. In this excellent, clearly written book, Carol Benedict charts the history of an epidemic of bubonic plague that broke out of its endemic reservoir in peripheral Yunnan province in the early eighteenth century, spread to that province’s core areas l…
Ancestral Rites and Political Authority in Late Imperial China
In 1742, Jiangxi Governor Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) undertook an experiment to grant lineage headmen (zuzhang and zuzheng) considerable judicial and disciplinary powers over their kinsmen, to be exercised in conjunction with their officiating over the sacrificial rites at the ancestral temple (zongsi). Chen was broadly regarded, both in his day and after, as a model provincial governor and an exemplar of the style of governance known asjingshi (or…
The Problem of "Civil Society" in Late Imperial China
The question underlying this and a growing number of other scholarly convocations these days-Did China ever possess a civil society?-is, on the very surface of it, one that I confess is deeply troubling to me. I want to know from the outset why we feel impelled and empowered to ask this question. Are we justified in expecting China (or any other non-Western historical society) to have had, or to have required, anything like the complex of attitud…
Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History
Perhaps best known today as a pioneering scholar of Inner Asia and a victim of the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, Owen Lattimore was more basically, like his friend Arnold Toynbee, a major player in the vogue of comparative history that captured wide public attention in the second quarter of the twentieth century. His lifelong intellectual project was to develop a "scientific" model of the way human societies form, evolve, grow, decline, muta…
Ancestral Rites and Political Authority in Late Imperial China
In 1742, Jiangxi Governor Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) undertook an experiment to grant lineage headmen (zuzhang and zuzheng) considerable judicial and disciplinary powers over their kinsmen, to be exercised in conjunction with their officiating over the sacrificial rites at the ancestral temple (zongsi). Chen was broadly regarded, both in his day and after, as a model provincial governor and an exemplar of the style of governance known asjingshi (or…
Water Control and the Qing Political Process
Perspectives on a Changing China
Big Business in China
The Qingbang and Collaboration Under the Japanese, 1939-1945
The depiction of Chinese secret societies as heroic defenders of the motherland against all outsiders is thrown into question by the conduct of certain such groups under the Japanese occupation. This note describes some materials relevant to this question, which I discovered while doing research on another topic in the municipal archives of Wuhan, Hubei Province. These materials provide valuable clues on the role of the Qingbang (or Green Gang) d…
Hankow
Introduction: cities in the history of Europe and China Part I. The Emporium: 1. Hankow in the nineteenth century 2. The trade of Hankow 3. The salt trade 4. The tea trade 5. Credit and finance in Hankow 6. The state and commerce Part II. Urban Social Organization: 7. Local origin in an immigrant city 8. Guild structure 9. Guild functions 10. Guilds and local power Conclusion Notes Selected bibliography Character list Index
Materials on Manchuria, Inner Asia, and China Held at the Johns Hopkins University
Vol. 6, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1985 MATERIALS ON MANCHURIA, INNER ASIA, AND CHINA HELD AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY William T. Rowe* The Johns Hopkins University is not a major East Asian research center, and consequently its Milton S. Eisenhower Library contains no comprehensive collection of materials in East Asian languages. However , through such former faculty members as Paul Linebarger, Owen Lattimore, and Richard Pfeffer, a n…
Hankow
Hankow. Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889
Water Control and the Qing Political Process
Hankow, Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895
Hankow
Introduction Part I. The City: 1. City people 2. Urban space Part II. Community: 3. Popular welfare 4. Public goods and public services Part III. Conflict: 5. Structures of conflict 6. Dangerous classes and laboring classes 7. True believers Part IV. Control 8. Forces of order 9. Crisis and response Conclusion Notes Selected bibliography Character list Index.
Ming-Qing Guilds
Women and the Family in Mid-Qing Social Thought
WOMEN AND THE FAMILY IN MID-QING SOCIAL THOUGHT: THE CASE OF CHEN HONGMOU* William T. Rowe An increasing number of scholars in recent years have come to detect in the early modern era of Chinese history an unprecedentedly articulated debate within the elite over questions relating to women and the family.1 Many now feel that we may see here a critical moment when, under the influence of new economic and social realities, long-standing assumptions…
State and Market in Mid-Qing Economic Thought. The Case of Chen Hongmou (1696-1771)
This article seeks an understanding of the basic assumptions underlying economic policy-making in mid-Qing China, through an analysis of the pronouncements and actions of Chen Hongmou, a long-serving provincial official identified by later writers as an examplar of the "statecraft" (jingshi ) movement. The Qing imperial administration was strongly committed to utilizing what we would term "market mechanisms" to achieve its economic goals. It soug…
The Problem of "Civil Society" in Late Imperial China
The question underlying this and a growing number of other scholarly convocations these days-Did China ever possess a civil society?-is, on the very surface of it, one that I confess is deeply troubling to me. I want to know from the outset why we feel impelled and empowered to ask this question. Are we justified in expecting China (or any other non-Western historical society) to have had, or to have required, anything like the complex of attitud…
Education and Empire in Southwest China
Demon Hordes and Burning Boats
C. Martin Wilbur (1907–1997)
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Fountain of Fortune
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (review)
Reviewed by: Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China William T. Rowe Carol Benedict. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx + 256 pp. Ill. $39.50. In this excellent, clearly written book, Carol Benedict charts the history of an epidemic of bubonic plague that broke out of its endemic reservoir in peripheral Yunnan province in the early eighteenth century, spread to that province’s core areas l…
Ancestral Rites and Political Authority in Late Imperial China
In 1742, Jiangxi Governor Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) undertook an experiment to grant lineage headmen (zuzhang and zuzheng) considerable judicial and disciplinary powers over their kinsmen, to be exercised in conjunction with their officiating over the sacrificial rites at the ancestral temple (zongsi). Chen was broadly regarded, both in his day and after, as a model provincial governor and an exemplar of the style of governance known asjingshi (or…
Saving the World
Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general, governor, or in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a “model official.” In this magisterial study, the author draws on Chen’s life and career to answer a range of questions: What did mid-Qin…
Civilizing Chengdu
This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centred politics, focusing on the new policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1930s. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly available archival sources, of the process of urban reform in Chengdu, …
Social Stability and Social Change
The early and mid-Ch'ing era was one of extraordinary social dynamism and, indeed, transformation. The single dominating fact of early and mid-Ch'ing social history is population growth. This chapter explores division of geographic mobility into two varieties: permanent migration for resettlement, and relocation conceived by the party as a temporary sojourn. Hunan's early Ch'ing commercial boom led to far more pronounced social stratification, bu…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between e…
Saving the World
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