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Vol. 112
ISSN:
1029-4740
Date:
2021-6
Softcover:250 TWD
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168
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Abstract:
This issue contains three articles: “Chasing ‘New Culture’: The Compilation and Intellectual Landscape of
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge
,” by Chen Chien-shou; “The Art of Seeking State Governance: The Petition Activities of Representatives of the ‘Yi ethnic group’ in Southwest China in the 1930s Era,” by Zhao Zheng; “Postwar Manchuria and Political Developments in the Far East during the Cold War Era,” by Huang Tzu-chin; Book Reviews: “Matthew W. Mosca,
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
,” by Tsai Chang-ting.
Contents
Articles
Chasing “New Culture”: The Compilation and Intellectual Landscape of
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge
[Abstract]
Chen Chien-shou
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This article discusses the publishing history of an encyclopedic dictionary, the English title of which was An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge 《新文化辭書》. It was compiled in response to the New Culture Movement. This article extends previous research to examine five issues: 1) the internal reform of the Commercial Press and the launch of An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge; 2) the background of the encyclopedia’s editorial team; 3) the intellectual resources used by the editorial team in its compilation; 4) how An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge compares to a similar work from the late Qing dynasty; 5) and the ideas presented in the entries of the encyclopedia. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge emerged out of the editorial needs of the Commercial Press and its competition with the Chung Hwa Book Company in relation to the business of “new culture.” When compared to the New General Encyclopedic Dictionary published in the late Qing dynasty, the alphabetic arrangement of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge and the detail it contained in its entries are characteristic of a “modern” encyclopedia. Most of the compilers of An Encyclopedic Dictionary of New Knowledge had studied in Japan, and the content of the dictionary incorporated the achievements of Japanese encyclopedic dictionaries, testifying to their influence. However, we cannot dismiss the efforts of the Commercial Press editorial team as mere “grabbism.” The editorial team conveyed various terms they considered to represent the “new culture,” including the popular “-isms” of the time as well as terms associated with the “debate on science and the philosophy of life.”
The Art of Seeking State Governance: The Petition Activities of Representatives of the “Yi ethnic group” in Southwest China in the 1930s Era
[Abstract]
Zhao Zheng
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Previous research on the petition activities of representatives of the “Yi ethnic group” in southwest China in the 1930s has revealed the awakening of ethnic identity among non-Han ethnic elites. On this basis, this article regards petition activities as the product of the “state effect” in modern China, focuses on the interactive process between petitioners and the state, and explains how petitioners displayed “the art of seeking state governance” in this process, thus shaping their relationship to the state. Their petition activities not only originated from the historical tradition of the southwest frontier region ruled by the central dynasties of China for a long time, but also were the political response of non-Han ethnic groups to the national transformation of modern China. The petitioners expressed their support for the central government and their recognition of the “Chinese nation”; made great efforts to highlight the significance of the “Yi ethnic group” in terms of unity, national defense, development, and nation-building; shaped themselves as spokesmen for local non-Han ethnic groups; and sought to become the agents of the state’s efforts to enter the southwest frontier. Based on the consideration of political interests, the national government made strategic use of the petitioners. Mainland cultural, academic, and women’s circles, as well as news media all paid attention to such petition activities. As a “social movement,” petitioning was shaped by the political structure and social conditions. After the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, petition activities declined due to conflict with the government’s political interests. Although petition activities failed to turn the “Yi ethnic group” into an institutional “ethnic group” in the state system of the Republic of China, the “art of seeking state governance” displayed by the petitioners influenced the status and trends of ethnopolitics in modern China.
Keyword
:national government, southwest China, Yi ethnic group, petition
Postwar Manchuria and Political Developments in the Far East during the Cold War Era
[Abstract]
Huang Tzu-chin
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This article reexamines the causal relationship between the U.S. government’s response to the failure of the Nationalist government to take over Manchuria and the U.S. policy of “abandoning China and supporting Japan” in the context of the development of the Cold War. In order to clarify the background of how the U.S. government changed its policy from initially supporting China to supporting Japan after Japan’s surrender, this article first discusses the basic attitudes of Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union toward Manchuria and the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. It also compares the evolution of the increasingly divergent views between Chiang Kai-shek and the U.S. with the increasingly integrated views between Mao Zedong and the Soviet Union, and their specific impact on the deployments ordered by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in Manchuria. Finally, this article focuses on how the U.S. government counteracted the Soviet Union's breach of trust and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and how it pursued the policy of containment in favor of propping up the Japanese government as an anti-communist bulwark in East Asia.
Keyword
:postwar Manchuria, Cold War, policy of containment, Kuomintang-Chinese Communist Party peace talks
Book Reviews
Matthew W. Mosca,
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
Tsai Chang-ting
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