Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica 中央研究院近代史研究所

Date： 2020 Rural Side Businesses, Market Activities, and Communist Revolution in China, Author(s)： Yao-huang Chen Abstract： For peasants living in rural China, income from side businesses and marketplace activities played a significant role in their livelihoods. However, from the government’s perspective, regulating ...	Date： 2019 Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Author(s)： Ning Jennifer Chang Abstract： This book explores how culture was “translated” and its principle. Focusing on three imported Western sports/gambling in the colonial setting of Shanghai in the latter half of the 19th and...
Date： 2019 The Price and Power of Identity: The Taiwan Independence Movement During the Martial Law Era Through Four Cases Author(s)： Chen Yi-shen Abstract： This book presents research results on the Taiwan Independence Movement and political incidents of White Terror by Chen Yi-shen, Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Th...	Date： 2017 Creating a Paradise for Consumption: Department Stores and Modern Urban Culture in Shanghai Author(s)： Ling-ling Lien Abstract： This book explores the history of department stores from a cultural perspective, examining how this new type of enterprise helped reshape the urban landscape of Republican-era Shanghai. What distingui...
Date： 2015 Merchants and Chinese Communist Revolution, 1919-1927 Author(s)： Ta-chia Li Abstract： This book is arguably the first monograph to offer an in-depth view of relations between the Chinese Communist Party and merchants, thereby shedding new light on the CCP’s early history. In cont...	Date： 2015 Shaping the New Man: CCP Propaganda and Soviet Experiences Author(s)： Miin-ling Yu Abstract： Based on the perspectives of politics, foreign relations, culture and society, this book explores what the Chinese Communist Party learned from Soviet experiences of utilizing novels, textbooks, songs...
Date： 2014 In Search of Western Learning: A History of Reading in Late Qing China (1833-1898) Author(s)： Kuang-Che Pan Abstract： In what is the first Chinese-language monograph on the history of reading, Pan Kwang-che draws on case studies to meticulously reconstruct how late Qing literati engaged with Western knowledge during ...	Date： 2014 Emperor Qianlong's Purse: Imperial Household Finance in Eighteenth Century China. Author(s)： Lai Huimin Abstract： This book elaborates on the financial aspects if Emperor Qianlong’s reign in the 18th century, while also exploring how religion and commerce were employed to solve China’s long-term front...
Date： 2013 Her Trials: Contextualizing Loyalty and Disloyalty in Modern China from the Gendered Nationalist Perspective Author(s)： Lo Jiu-jung Abstract： This book uses the wartime stories of five women to illustrate how questions of loyalty and disloyalty were woven into the nationalist discourses pivotal to modern Chinese conceptions of the state and...	Date： 2013 Urban Consumption and Spatial Transformation in Jiangnan Cities during the Ming-Qing Period Author(s)： Wu Jen-Shu Abstract： Urban Pleasures focuses on the diversity of leisure, shopping activities, and spaces that marked urban lifestyles and life experiences from the mid-Ming to the mid-Qing. It considers the conc...

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