Two Cheers for 1911
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008549 |
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| Authors | Edward J M Rhoads (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Edward Rhoads (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-136 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009770047900500105 |
| OpenAlex | W1995112526 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Since Joseph Esherick's survey of recent English-language studies of 191 1 Revolution appeared in this journal awhile back (Esherick, 1976b), three more books on subject have been published. Two of them, one by controversial reviewer himself, are first to consider revolution from a perspective. Esherick, in his review, concerned himself primarily with social and political studies of 1895-1913 period and excluded from consideration several fine works of intellectual history. He left out intellectual studies because nearly all of them focus on ideas of individual thinkers without examining how ratiocinations are somehow useful in explaining behavior of their subjects. What 'radicals' write in Tokyo is of little interest to me unless it helps me to understand what they did in China (Esherick, 1976b: 152). I share some of Esherick's dissatisfaction, though for a different reason. Far more frustrating, to me, is preoccupation of these books either with seminal thinkers (like Kang You-wei and Yan Fu) or with radicals intellectuals abroad (typically Liang Qi-chao and Minbao writers), both to neglect of more representative members of scholar-gentry within China. With possible exception of Marianne Bastid's and Samuel Chu's work on Zhang Jian, there simply are no studies of how vast majority of Chinese elite experienced fundamental intellectual changes of 1895-1913. At first glance, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to Chinese Revolution (1976), appears to fill gap. To quote subtitle, it is a study of the transformation of ideas and institutions in Hunan province, 1891-1907. It traces changes in gentry attitudes from anti-foreignism to nationalism as revealed successively in antimissionary movement in 1891, radical reforms of 1898, and rights recovery
Art · China · Elite · Gentry · Literature · Political science · Politics · Prologue · Sociology · Subject (documents · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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