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Bulletin
Vol. 81
ISSN：
1029-4740
Date：
2013-9
Softcover：250 TWD
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未出版
Pages：
208
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0
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16 K
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Abstract：
This issue contains four articles: “The Politics of Translation and the Production of Sinology: Sir Thomas Francis Wade and the Student Interpreter Program, 1843-1870”, by Uganda Sze Pui Kwan; “The Development of the Electric Lighting Industry in Shanghai, 1882-1893”, by Yang Yan;” The Command Authority of Nationalist Army during the Civil War: A Case Study of the Nanma Battle, July 1947”, by Liu Shih-ming; ”Socialism in a Mountainous Area: The Predicaments of Socioeconomic Transformation in Western Fujian, 1949-1965”, by Chen Yao-huang; Review Articles: “Networks and Ripples”: Li Shang-jen, Physicians of Empire: Patrick Manson and the Founding of British Tropical Medicine Liu Shi-yung, The Sword and the Lancet: The Japanese Formation and Diffusion of Western Medicine, by Fu Daiwie; Book Reviews:“Wang Ke,
East Turkestan Independence Movement: 1930s to 1940s
”, by David D. Wang.
Contents
Articles
The Politics of Translation and the Production of Sinology: Sir Thomas Francis Wade and the Student Interpreter Program, 1843-1870
[Abstract]
Uganda Sze Pui Kwan
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1
Anglo-Chinese relations entered a new phase after the Opium War in 1842. Prepared or not, the British Empire now had to face the fact that communication through textual and verbal translation was essential to daily business. It needed to build up a supply of trustworthy interpreters. Compared with other European countries, Britain was a latecomer in the study of Chinese. It relied on interpreters from Naples in the eighteenth century, and had to draft the few existing interpreters trained by private companies in Canton to serve as interpreters in the Opium War. As a colonel in the war, Thomas F. Wade must have observed the detrimental effect brought about by the lack of interpreters. As well, the lack of capable interpreters in British Hong Kong almost toppled the governance of the tiny colony where Wade first served as a court interpreter. This article, based on archival records in the Foreign Office, highlights Wade’s role in creating Britain’s student interpreter training program and examines how the program contributed to Sinological knowledge in Britain.
Keyword
：Sir Thomas Francis Wade, politics of translation, student interpreter program, Sino-British foreign relations, Foreign Office records
The Development of the Electric Lighting Industry in Shanghai, 1882-1893
[Abstract]
Yang Yan
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53
At the beginning of the 1880s, the Shanghai Municipal Council authorized the Shanghai Electric Company to create an electric lighting system that became the catalyst for the development of the electric industry era in modern Shanghai. The Council played the leading role as the “judge,” “legal administrator,” “operator,” and “manager” of the industry’s development. The Council sought to develop street lighting in the International Settlement and supported the electric company in order to introduce Western technology and compete with the gas lighting system. However, the electric company faced technical difficulties as well as obstacles imposed by the Council’s supervision. As development stagnated, the company was forced into reorganization, but, faced with the Council’s demands to lay underground cables, the new company also failed, and eventually the Council purchased the company and operated the electric lighting system by itself.
Keyword
：Municipal Council, electric lighting, industry, Shanghai Electric Co.
The Command Authority of Nationalist Army during the Civil War: A Case Study of the Nanma Battle, July 1947
[Abstract]
Liu Shih-ming
PDF
99
From 17 to 22 July 1947, the Nationalist and Communist armies fought one another in the Nanma Battle in Shandong. With its victory, the Nationalist army stabilized its position after many defeats. Chiang Kai-shek had taken over command on 9 July. Using his well-known habit of “leapfrog commanding,” Chiang Kai-shek had until that date maintained the position, with limits, of the previous commander, Gu Zhutong. However, he regarded Gu as pusillanimous and was angered by Gu’s order to retreat on one occasion without permission. After the intial Communist attack, the Nationalist corps commander, Fan Hanjie, misjudged the position. However, the 11th Division resisted for several days, until reinforcements ordered by the high command arrived. Chiang directly commanded the 11th Division and the relief troops. The procedure involved in requesting help for frontline troops and giving rescue orders shows how the local command level often took on a merely intermediate role in combat emergencies.
Keyword
：civil war, Nationalist Army, Chiang Kai-shek, Shandong battlefield, Nanma battle
Socialism in a Mountainous Area: The Predicaments of Socioeconomic Transformation in Western Fujian, 1949-1965
[Abstract]
Chen Yao-huang
PDF
133
The western region of Fujian Province (Minxi) is a mountainous area that was the homeland of many Hakka and also a longstanding revolutionary stronghold. Having experienced much destruction through revolution and warfare, the Minxi region was recaptured by the Chinese Communists (CCP) in 1949. Like other regions of rural China in the early years of the People’s Republic of China, the Minxi region also experienced continuous division and reorganization due to a succession of political and revolutionary movements. Local peasants were unable to escape the state’s insatiable demand for grain and consequent calamity. Through a case study of the Minxi region in the early years of PRC, this article explores the implementation of socialist revolution in a rural mountainous region and analyzes the predicaments it faced.
Keyword
：Fujian Province, Minxi region, rural economy, agriculture, sideline enterprises
Review Articles
“Networks and Ripples”:
Li Shang-jen
,
Physicians of Empire: Patrick Manson and the Founding of British Tropical Medicine
Liu Shi-yung
,
The Sword and the Lancet: The Japanese Formation and Diffusion of Western Medicine
Fu Daiwie
PDF
187
Book Reviews
Wang Ke,
East Turkestan Independence Movement: 1930s to 1940s
David D. Wang
PDF
203
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