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Vol. 105
ISSN:
1029-4740
Date:
2019-9
Softcover:250 TWD
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Pages:
156
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16 K
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Abstract:
This issue contains three articles: “The Civil Service Examination System and the Shanghai Book Market in the Late Qing: A Study of the Chongde Guild and the Book Guild,” by Xu Shibo; “Another New Culture Movement: The Cultural Activities of Liang Qichao’s Circle and the Intellectuals around the May Fourth Movement,” by Zhou Yuefeng; “The Nature and Dilemma of the Youth Political Movement in Nationalist China: A Case Study of the Zhejiang County Political Work Squad, 1938-1940,” by Wang Chen-cheng; Book Reviews: “Hsiao-ting Lin,
Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
,” by Lu Xun.
Contents
Articles
The Civil Service Examination System and the Shanghai Book Market in the Late Qing: A Study of the Chongde Guild and the Book Guild
[Abstract]
Xu Shibo
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1
After the Taiping Rebellion, Shanghai’s book trade became increasingly prosperous and with the appearance of commercial printer-publishers which adopted Western-style printing technology, Shanghai became the regional, if not national, center for book production and sales. The nascent stage of Shanghai’s book industry ended in 1905 when the imperial civil service examination system was abolished. Studies of Shanghai’s book industry have focused on technology and impact but relatively neglected its market traits, business strategies, industry associations, and the relationship between the industrial economy and social institutions. This article tells the stories of the Chongde Guild and the Book Guild, the first two book guilds in late Qing Shanghai. I argue that the civil service examination system not only provided content for publishers, but also determined the business practices of the late Qing book industry. Although the two guilds had different aims, the former trying to coordinate the relationship between production and sales departments, while the latter tried to solve the problem of low-price competition (lanjia) and reprinting (fanyin), neither abandoned practices that had been shaped by the examination system. In other words, the opportunities and limitations brought by the examination system determined the market traits and business strategies of the book industry, and even the direction and effectiveness of its social evolution.
Keyword
:civil service examination system, book market, book guilds, book printer-publishers (shuju), copyright
Another New Culture Movement: The Cultural Activities of Liang Qichao’s Circle and the Intellectuals around the May Fourth Movement
[Abstract]
Zhou Yuefeng
PDF
49
The diversity, conflicts, and kaleidoscopic nature of the New Culture Movement has mostly been ignored by historians. However, the real New Culture Movement was gradually formed by these various groups with their own agendas through collaborations, revisions, and competitions. Among these diverse projects, the cultural activities of Liang Qichao’s circle should be paid more attention, since they had a major influence on history. They initiated their own New Culture Movement, hoping to “rebuild a new society, different from both traditional China and the Western countries through emancipation,” by which they could reinvent this civilization. Their goals and means were distinct from those of the teachers and students of Peking University. Their relationship with the New Youth circle was as neither followers nor antagonists. This circle was neither the opposite of the New Culture Movement, nor a voice isolated from the dominant discourse. Rather, its members were active participants of this time, and reshaped the intellectual trends and exerted their own influence on the transformation of the New Culture Movement. What we have forgotten is not only their cultural standpoints and pursuits, but also their role in the whole structure of this history.
Keyword
:May Fourth Movement, New Culture Movement, Liang Qichao, research clique, Zhang Dongsun
The Nature and Dilemma of the Youth Political Movement in Nationalist China: A Case Study of the Zhejiang County Political Work Squad, 1938-1940
[Abstract]
Wang Chen-cheng
PDF
91
The Political Work Squad, a county institution in Zhejiang during World War II, was designed to enlist patriotic youth in the tasks of organizing the peasants into local governments’ war efforts. However, due to the framework of the youth political movement, those political workers turned out to be incapable of cooperating with the authorities. Rather, they undermined the stability of the local regime. The youth political movement was further affected by the life practices of political workers. As such, the liberal self-imagination overwhelmed realistic political needs. The Nationalist regime eventually lost all possibilities of deploying and controlling the youth.
Keyword
:political work squad, youth political movement, selfhood, political workers’ lives, liberal governmentality
Book Reviews
Hsiao-ting Lin,
Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
Lu Xun
PDF
149
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