Developmentalism in Late Qing China, 1874–1911
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Chappell (0000-0001-6946-8662, Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-120 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x19000669 |
| OpenAlex | W3082435347 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 53 |
This article explores the changing historical referents that Qing officials used in arguing for the extension of direct governance to the empire's frontier regions from the 1870s to the 1900s. In the 1870s, Shen Baozhen and Zuo Zongtang made the case for a change of governance on Taiwan and in Xinjiang respectively by reference to past Chinese frontier management. However, in the first decade of the twentieth century Cen Chunxuan and Yao Xiguang both referred to the European past, and specifically the history of European colonialism, to argue for reform of frontier policy in Mongolia. I argue that this shift was a result of both the empire's altered political circumstances and a growing belief in the inevitability of an evolutionary fate which awaited nomadic peoples, who were destined to be colonized. Yet this was not a case of Chinese thinkers simply adopting European ideas and perspectives wholesale. The adoption of European historical referents was entangled with Han Chinese perceptions of Mongolian populations which had been carefully cultivated by the Manchu Qing state
Ancient history · China · Colonialism · Corporate governance · Developmentalism · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Frontier · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture
A Frontier Made Lawless
Developing India
Imperial Eyes
The ILI Crisis
Zhang Zhidong’s Proposal for Reform
Zhang Zhidong’s Proposal for Reform
Intellectual change
Exhausting the Earth
Outcasts of Empire
Changing Referents
Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century
The Empire and the Khanate
Empire at the Margins
Bringing the World Home
The Book of Lord Shang
Beyond the Pass
The Headless State
The Culture of War in China
A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC - AD 24)
Our Great Qing
The Inner Opium War
The Manchurian Frontier in Ch'ing History
China Marches West
Culture as History
Of Civilization and Savages
Of Civilization and Savages
The Literati Rewriting of China in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition
"Coming onto the Map"
The Yuelu Academy and Hunan's Nineteenth-Century Turn Toward Statecraft
Nothing Is the Way It Should Be”
Land Use and Society in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia during the Qing Dynasty
Legal Pluralism in the Qing Empire
Qing Colonial Administration in Inner Asia
Transnational Approaches to Global History
The Great Policy Debate in China, 1874
The Secret Correspondence of 1867-1868
How Taiwan became Chinese. Dutch, Spanish and Han colonization in the seventeenth century
Translation and transmutation
Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland
Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory
The Chinese Literary Conquest of Xinjiang
Breaking the Bonds of Precedent
In Search of Wealth and Power
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |