附註:Amidst empires : colonialism, China and the Chinese / Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath -- Chinese dreams of national strength and global belonging : "iron and blood" and the forces of evolution, 1895-1918 / Clemens Büttner-- "Learning to walk" : Qing constitutional reform and Britain's imperial pedagogy, 1901-1911 / Tom Neuhaus -- Colonial pathways to international education : Chinese students in white Australia in the 1920s / Mei-Fen Kuo and John Fitzgerald-- The legacies of European imperialism : modern art for modern China / Yiyan Wang -- Anti-colonial boycotts and diasporic activism linking interwar China and colonial Indonesia : the Xiao case / Kris Alexanderson -- Between empire and nation(s) : the Peranakan Chinese of the Straits Settlements, 1890-1948 / Bernard Z. Keo -- Lowe Kong Meng and the fluidity of 19th century geopolitical affinity / Paul Macgregor -- Constructing Chinese alterity for Germany's youth (1897-1902)/Yixu Lu -- Who are the barbarians? The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in the discourse of civilization / Liu Wenming -- Missionaries and Chinese women : the representation and exploitation of vulnerability in British missionary writing /Tamara Cooper -- Peripheries of empire : G. E. Morrison's An Australian in China / Peter Monteath.
摘要:"This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and demographic force in its own right. Where histories of China commonly highlight episodes of conflict and subjugation inChina's relations with the West, the contributions to this volume explore the complex spaces where empires and their peoples did not merely collide but also became entangled"--
