Archival Resources of Republican China in North America

Archival Resources of Republican China in North America
Author: Chengzhi Wang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231540450

North America maintains the largest collection of archival materials relating to the Chinese Republican era (1911–1949) outside of China. Most of the archival materials are also unique, and the collections contain special materials supplementing historical records in China and Taiwan. In many cases, North America's holdings represent the best and only public access to the tumultuous Republican government and society of the first half of the twentieth century. An essential guide for researchers and students of Republican China, this volume, presented in both English and Chinese, covers personal papers, correspondences, memoirs, diaries, photographs, moving images, and other materials held at academic and research institutions across the United States and Canada. It includes concise descriptions of the people, organizations, and events connected to each entry and notes when certain collections are closely related and when materials are digitized for online access. The book corrects common errors associated with the library records of many archives and updates or completes information on the objects of these records. More than a straightforward itemization, this book adds significant depth to any research on the history and global import of China's modern development.

Knowledge, Power, and Networks

Knowledge, Power, and Networks
Author: Cécile Armand
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004520473

This volume examines the formidable transformation of elites in China in the Republican period and how the redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites left a deep imprint on the rise of modern China up to this day.

Victorious in Defeat

Victorious in Defeat
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 0300260202

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes. Alexander V. Pantsov sheds new light on the role played by the Russians in Chiang's rise to power in the 1920s and throughout his political career--and indeed the Russian influence on the Chinese revolutionary movement as a whole--as well as on Chiang's complex relationship with top officials of the United States. It is a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world.

Collecting Educational Media

Collecting Educational Media
Author: Anke Hertling
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1800734840

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately understood only in relation to, and as an extension and adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from which they emerged.

The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.

The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.
Author: Vivian Ling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351384996

This book will be the first account of the development of Chinese as a foreign language in the U.S., as it interacts with the relevant entities in China and beyond. There are virtually no systematic retrospective reflections on the field outside of the greater China region; and yet over the past decades the field has grown by leaps and bounds, and it is critical now that we pause to reflect on what has happened and what we can learn from the past. The contributors are among some of the most influential pioneers in the field whose entire academic lives have been dedicated to its development. The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.: A Retrospective of the 20th Century is aimed at those who are currently engaged in Chinese language education, as teachers or as students.

FAR Horizons

FAR Horizons
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1977
Genre: International relations
ISBN:

First no. of each vol. contains index to previous vol.

FAR Horizons

FAR Horizons
Author: National Security Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1972
Genre:
ISBN:

State and Economy in Republican China

State and Economy in Republican China
Author: William C. Kirby
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1684173442

"This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911–1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan that contain materials in the areas of economics and business, with data on the history of the archives, descriptions of their holdings, and publications on their collections. The second half of the work consists of guided readings in Republican-era documents, such as government decrees, regulations, and business letters, with complete vocabulary lists and explanations of terms. Also included with the handbook are facsimile reproductions of these documents."