David W. P. Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195383348
- eISBN:
- 9780199979172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383348.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Looking at the causes and consequences of collective idea-change among Vietnam's political elite as a way of understanding how Vietnam made the transition from a rigidly orthodox Marxist-Leninist ...
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Looking at the causes and consequences of collective idea-change among Vietnam's political elite as a way of understanding how Vietnam made the transition from a rigidly orthodox Marxist-Leninist state and intransigent member of “the socialist camp,” in a sharply divided Cold War international system, to deep engagement with globalization in a world no longer clearly divided into friends and enemies. The Vietnam of the twenty-first century would have been inconceivable to either Vietnamese or foreign observers at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.Less
Looking at the causes and consequences of collective idea-change among Vietnam's political elite as a way of understanding how Vietnam made the transition from a rigidly orthodox Marxist-Leninist state and intransigent member of “the socialist camp,” in a sharply divided Cold War international system, to deep engagement with globalization in a world no longer clearly divided into friends and enemies. The Vietnam of the twenty-first century would have been inconceivable to either Vietnamese or foreign observers at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Nanxiu Qian
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804792400
- eISBN:
- 9780804794275
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804792400.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of the talented and prolific woman writer Xue Shaohui and the reform-minded members of her social and intellectual networks. It moves ...
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This book examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of the talented and prolific woman writer Xue Shaohui and the reform-minded members of her social and intellectual networks. It moves attention from the well-known male historical actors of 1898 to the long-obscured women reformers and their male collaborators, and broadens the conventional focus on the “Hundred Days” to cover a much longer time period, from China’s Self-Strengthening effort beginning in the 1860s to the New Policies of the early twentieth century, which included the constitutional movement. Probing these players’ participation in, and responses to, the important events of the day through reading their literary, journalistic, and translational works, this book offers a different, more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the reform era than any previous work. It shows in particular that late Qing women reformers were not merely passive objects of male concern, but rather active, optimistic, autonomous, and self-sufficient agents of reform. Drawing upon intellectual and spiritual resources from the freewheeling Wei-Jin (220-420) xianyuan (worthy ladies) model and the late imperial writing-women culture, and open to Western ideas and knowledge, they went beyond the inherited Confucian pattern in their quest for an ideal womanhood and an ideal social order. Demanding equal political and educational rights with men, women reformers challenged leading male reformers’ nationalistic approach of achieving “wealth and power” for China, championing instead to unite women of all nations in an effort to create a just and harmonious new world.Less
This book examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of the talented and prolific woman writer Xue Shaohui and the reform-minded members of her social and intellectual networks. It moves attention from the well-known male historical actors of 1898 to the long-obscured women reformers and their male collaborators, and broadens the conventional focus on the “Hundred Days” to cover a much longer time period, from China’s Self-Strengthening effort beginning in the 1860s to the New Policies of the early twentieth century, which included the constitutional movement. Probing these players’ participation in, and responses to, the important events of the day through reading their literary, journalistic, and translational works, this book offers a different, more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the reform era than any previous work. It shows in particular that late Qing women reformers were not merely passive objects of male concern, but rather active, optimistic, autonomous, and self-sufficient agents of reform. Drawing upon intellectual and spiritual resources from the freewheeling Wei-Jin (220-420) xianyuan (worthy ladies) model and the late imperial writing-women culture, and open to Western ideas and knowledge, they went beyond the inherited Confucian pattern in their quest for an ideal womanhood and an ideal social order. Demanding equal political and educational rights with men, women reformers challenged leading male reformers’ nationalistic approach of achieving “wealth and power” for China, championing instead to unite women of all nations in an effort to create a just and harmonious new world.
James Stent
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190497033
- eISBN:
- 9780190497064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190497033.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
Traditional Chinese culture retains a powerful hold on China today. Confucian emphasis on the duty of the state to provide for a harmonious and orderly society, on the interests of the collective ...
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Traditional Chinese culture retains a powerful hold on China today. Confucian emphasis on the duty of the state to provide for a harmonious and orderly society, on the interests of the collective over the individual, and on “rule of men” over “rule of law” imbue the values and structures of Chinese political economic institutions, including banks. This cultural context in which Chinese banks are embedded contrasts sharply with the American cultural context in which American market capitalist banks are embedded. China’s search for the right combination of modern methods and traditional cultural essence to return “wealth and power” to the country has influenced the development of China’s banking system to become what it is today.Less
Traditional Chinese culture retains a powerful hold on China today. Confucian emphasis on the duty of the state to provide for a harmonious and orderly society, on the interests of the collective over the individual, and on “rule of men” over “rule of law” imbue the values and structures of Chinese political economic institutions, including banks. This cultural context in which Chinese banks are embedded contrasts sharply with the American cultural context in which American market capitalist banks are embedded. China’s search for the right combination of modern methods and traditional cultural essence to return “wealth and power” to the country has influenced the development of China’s banking system to become what it is today.
