This book offers research on state and society in Republican China, exploring various aspects of Republican history from the governance perspective. Governance is understood in a broader sense as interactions between state and society, including both the discursive process of social decision-making and the provision of (non-)material public goods. The topics highlighted are: the internationalization of disaster relief, the philanthropic governance of overseas Chinese in Xiamen, the transformation of the cultural group "World Society," historical writing, intellectual autonomy, as well as the...

Sinology, the academic study of China, is in flux. What was once a colonial science is today being reshaped as a global discourse. New approaches are being explored. Traditional patterns that have often led to the exclusion of valuable knowledge are being challenged. This book seeks to foster a provocative debate, putting forward the motion that it is high time that Sinology was rediscovered as a more inclusive field of study. It also sheds light on issues that have remained marginalized for far too long-as blind spots, as non-topics, as forgotten narratives. ((Series: Chinese History and...