Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the "new" woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experience of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways. The Reform Movement, The Monarchy, And Political Modernity / Peter Zarrow -- Literati-journalists Of The Chinese Progress (shiwu Bao) In Discord, 1896-1898 / Seungjoo Yoon -- Zhang Zhidong's Proposal For Reform: A New Reading Of The Quanxue Pian / Tze-ki Hon -- The Founding Of The Imperial University And The Emergence Of Chinese Modernity / Timothy B. Weston -- Placing The Hundred Days: Native-place Ties And Urban Space / Richard Belsky -- Reforming The Feminine: Female Literacy And The Legacy Of 1898 / Joan Judge -- Naming The First New Woman / Hu Ying -- Slavery, Citizenship, And Gender In Late Qing China's Global Context / Rebecca E. Karl -- Poetic Revolution, Colonization, And Form At The Beginning Of Modern Chinese Literature / Xiaobing Tang. Edited By Rebecca E. Karl & Peter Zarrow. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Politcal and Cultural Changein Late Qing China Acknowledgments Contents Contributors Introduction 1 The Reform Movement, the Monarchy, and Political Modernity 2 Literati-Journalists of the Chinese Progress ( Shiwu bao) in Discord, 1896-1898 3 Zhang Zhidong's Proposal for Reform: A New Reading of the Quanxue pian 4 The Founding of the Imperial University and the Emergence of Chinese Modernity 5 Placing the Hundred Days: Native-Place Ties and Urban Space 6 Reforming the Feminine: Female Literacy and the Legacy of 1898 7 Naming the First "New Woman" 8 "Slavery," Citizenship, and Gender in Late Qing China's Global Context 9 "Poetic Revolution," Colonization, and Form at the Beginning of Modern Chinese Literature Index Index Harvard East Asian Monographs