Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China (Harvard East Asian Monographs, #214) (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))

by Rebecca E. Karl and Peter G. Zarrow

Rebecca E. Karl (Editor), Peter Zarrow (Editor), Richard Belsky, Tze-ki Hon, Ying Hu, Joan Judge, Xiaobing Tang, Timothy Weston, and Seungjoo Yoon

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the "new" woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experience of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways.

• ISBN10: 0674008545
• ISBN13: 9780674008540
• Publish Date: 29 June 2002
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 2 March 2022
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English