Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China

ISBN-13: 9780415528658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Anne-Marie Brady; Douglas Brown

Opis

This text breaks new ground in giving voice to the perspectives of some of those who have been relatively neglected in the traditional narratives of foreigners' role in Republican China.

Recenzje

The essays are certainly wide-ranging, with the foreigners discussed in the collection ranging from “Soviet comrades and the institutions of the Comintern, to English teachers, women activists, a freelance female journalist and a Contessa, Western aesthetes and sexual tourists as well as Japanese, Koreans, colonial New Zealanders and Italians of both elevated and humble rank." As one small window into Republican China, these vignettes provide some limited, butnevertheless informative, insights into that period of Chinese history and are well worth reading. - A. Tom Grunfeld, SUNY Empire State College

Spis treści

Introduction. Foreign Bodies: Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China I. Heterotopic China  1. The Italian Production of Space in Tianjin: Heterotopia and Emotional Capital 2. Lending Words: Foreign Language Education and Teachers in Republican Peking 3. Redefining Institutional Identity: the YWCA Challenge to Extraterritoriality in China, 1925-30 4. Comintern Activists in China: Spies or Theorists? 5. Observations of the Political and Economic Situation in China by the British Mercantile Community during the Civil War, 1945-1949 II. Shanghaied: Morality Tales from the Paris of the East  6. Shanghai Three Ways: the 1930s view from Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai 7. Adventurers, Aesthetes, and Tourists: Foreign Homosexuals in Republican China 8. Sissywood vs. Alleyman: Going Nose to Nose in Shanghai, Douglas Brown 9. Takeda Taijun in Shanghai: Recollections of Republican China and Imperial Japan III. With China at War  10. "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China 11. Italians in Nationalist China (1928-45): Some case studies 12. Struggling Through Times of Darkness and Despair: Korean Communists from the Anti-Japanese Resistance to the Chinese Civil War

O autorze

Anne-Marie Brady is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Douglas Brown teaches in the English department of John Abbott College in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.