Koxinga And Chinese Nationalism
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Author | : Ralph C. Croizier |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Preliminary Material /Ralph C. Croizier --History, Myth, and Nationalism /Ralph C. Croizier --In Search of the Historical Koxinga /Ralph C. Croizier --Myth, Model and Archetype in the Traditional Chinese Hero /Ralph C. Croizier --The Nationalist Transfiguration /Ralph C. Croizier --His Disputed Legacy in a Divided China /Ralph C. Croizier --History and the Hero /Ralph C. Croizier --Notes /Ralph C. Croizier --Bibliography /Ralph C. Croizier --Index /Ralph C. Croizier --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Ralph C. Croizier.
Author | : Roger Crozier |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684171989 |
Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga, was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan, and established a dynasty which ruled the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. Crozier analyzes the historical Koxinga and the myths that have grown about him over time.
Author | : Tonio Andrade |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691159572 |
How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War—Europe's first war with China—the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies—Taiwan. How did he do it? Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Lost Colony provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war. It has traditionally been asserted that Europeans of the era possessed more advanced science, technology, and political structures than their Eastern counterparts, but historians have recently contested this view, arguing that many parts of Asia developed on pace with Europe until 1800. While Lost Colony shows that the Dutch did indeed possess a technological edge thanks to the Renaissance fort and the broadside sailing ship, that edge was neutralized by the formidable Chinese military leadership. Thanks to a rich heritage of ancient war wisdom, Koxinga and his generals outfoxed the Dutch at every turn. Exploring a period when the military balance between Europe and China was closer than at any other point in modern history, Lost Colony reassesses an important chapter in world history and offers valuable and surprising lessons for contemporary times.
Author | : Qinghuang Yan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Chinese |
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Author | : Michael D. Swaine |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2000-03-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0833048309 |
China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary to gain a more complete understanding of Chinese security thought and behavior. This study addresses such questions as: What are China's most fundamental national security objectives? How has the Chinese state employed force and diplomacy in the pursuit of these objectives over the centuries? What security strategy does China pursue today and how will it evolve in the future? The study asserts that Chinese history, the behavior of earlier rising powers, and the basic structure and logic of international power relations all suggest that, although a strong China will likely become more assertive globally, this possibility is unlikely to emerge before 2015-2020 at the earliest. To handle this situation, the study argues that the United States should adopt a policy of realistic engagement with China that combines efforts to pursue cooperation whenever possible; to prevent, if necessary, the acquisition by China of capabilities that would threaten America's core national security interests; and to remain prepared to cope with the consequences of a more assertive China.
Author | : Tonio Andrade |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082485277X |
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks and maritime polities; they competed and cooperated with one another and with powerful political and economic units, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Portuguese and Spanish crowns, and the Dutch East India Company. Maritime East Asia was a contested and contradictory place, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions, and a dizzying diversity of cultures and ethnicities, with dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based on kinship ties or patron-client relations coexisted uneasily with formal governmental structures and bureaucratized merchant organizations. Subsistence-based trade and plunder by destitute fishermen complemented the grand dreams of sea-lords, profit-maximizing entrepreneurs, and imperial contenders. Despite their shifting identities, East Asia’s mariners sought to anchor their activities to stable legitimacies and diplomatic traditions found outside the system, but outsiders, even those armed with the latest military technology, could never fully impose their values or plans on these often mercurial agents. With its multilateral perspective of a world in flux, this volume offers fresh, wide-ranging narratives of the “rise of the West” or “the Great Divergence.” European mariners, who have often been considered catalysts of globalization, were certainly not the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. China’s maritime traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation, and the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization—as significant as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin. Today, as a resurgent China begins to assert its status as a maritime power, it is important to understand the deep history of maritime East Asia.
Author | : Lynn A. Struve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Paul A. Cohen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520265831 |
The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex 5th-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during the 20th century, but remains little known in the West. This book explores the story's connections to the major traumas of the 20th century, and also considers why such stories remain unknown to outsiders.
Author | : Maddison Angus |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998-09-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264163557 |
The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China.
Author | : Chang-tai Hung |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520354869 |
This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.