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Bulletin
Vol. 85
ISSN:
1029-4740
Date:
2014-9
Softcover:250 TWD
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Pages:
270
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Abstract:
This issue contains four articles: “Storm Tides and Government Response during the Yongzheng Period,” by Chen Yaping; “The Rise of Lithography and the Circulation of Japanese Painting Manuals in Late Qing Shanghai: A Study Focusing on Dianshizhai conghua,” by Lai Yu-chih; “What is Tianyan? The Meaning and Significance of Yan Fu’s Theory of Natural Evolution,” by Max K. W. Huang; “Counterfeit Medicine Advertisements in Late Qing Shanghai,” by Zhang Zhong-min; Book Reviews: “Chen Wei-hsin,
Russia in the Qing Diplomatic Protocol System and Negotiations over Vassal Status
,” by Yu Shu-chun; “Gloria Davies,
Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
,” by Duan Lian; “Sasagawa Yuji and Okumura Satoshi,
Chinese Society on the Home Front
,” by Wang Chao-jan.
Contents
Articles
Storm Tides and Government Response during the Yongzheng Period
[Abstract]
Chen Yaping
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1
Two storm tides swept the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Yongzheng reign, greatly damaging the economic and social life of the local people. The government mobilized officials at all levels to fully engage in disaster relief. Thus the entire Qing administration was able to emphasize the core issue of grain supply in stricken areas. The government not only emphasized the role of administrative measures in controlling grain prices, but also actively engaged in mediating the inter-provincial grain markets. This considerably improved the grain supplies in stricken areas and effectively alleviated the impact of the disasters on grain prices in the affected regions. The government’s performance in this disaster relief indicated that governmental effort was the primary resource for disaster relief during the early eighteenth century. The decision of the Qing government to carry out disaster relief campaigns with the aid of market power resulted from a sensible understanding of the supply-and-demand relations of the grain market, and this blend of government and market powers also served as an effective model for the development of traditional famine relief strategies in China.
Keyword
:Yongzheng reign, storm tide, government measures, grain prices
The Rise of Lithography and the Circulation of Japanese Painting Manuals in Late Qing Shanghai: A Study Focusing on Dianshizhai conghua
[Abstract]
Lai Yu-chih
PDF
57
This article discusses the rarely explored phenomenon of the importation of Japanese painting manuals in Shanghai during the late Qing period. It not only aims to reconstruct the cultural scene that enabled the trade, but also to situate it in the context of exciting new printing cultures, especially lithography. The confluence of these two trends offers a unique case study to venture into the multiple-layered relations between technology and material culture, and, most importantly, to examine how they engaged with reading culture under the circumstances of transcultural exchange. This articles focuses on a general painting manual published by Dianshizhai in 1881 and republished in 1886, entitled Dianshizhai conghua. First, I examine the changes in the material forms of books, especially in the practice of their production and consumption, all of which resulted from the new application of lithographic printing. I then reconstruct the Japanese book market in Shanghai and investigate how it took advantage of the rise in lithographic printing. Finally, I explore why Japanese painting manuals were so popular and how Japanese images were read and comprehended in the Chinese context before the First Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1894
Keyword
:late Qing reading culture, Dianshizhai conghua, lithography, Japanese books in Shanghai
What is Tianyan? The Meaning and Significance of Yan Fu’s Theory of Natural Evolution
[Abstract]
Max K. W. Huang
PDF
129
This article analyzes three versions of the Theory of Natural Evolution and other materials to investigate Yan Fu’s understanding of “evolution,” which he based on the works of Herbert Spencer and Thomas Huxley. It focuses on the cultural background, the origins of his terminology, and the historical significance of this theory in the Chinese translation. I argue that Yan’s Theory of Natural Evolution, a translation of Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics, was influenced by Yan’s Chinese intellectual background including his prior study of The Book of Changes and Xunzi. Yan emphasized the importance of ethical values in the process of evolution in order to deal with China’s national crisis. For Yan, the unique character of human beings lies in their qualities of qun (group solidarity), tianliang (conscience), and kaiming ziying (enlightened self-interest). Thus he encouraged Chinese people to understand natural evolution to strengthen themselves and to save their race. Yan criticized Spencer for overemphasizing natural evolution at the expense of moral autonomy, and established a link between his emphasis on ethics, individual freedom, and Huxley’s theory of social cooperation. In this way, Yan’s understanding of evolution placed equal emphasis on self and group and led to an accommodative approach to policy and cultural reform.
Keyword
:Yan Fu, Lu Xun, Oka Asajirō, natural evolution
Counterfeit Medicine Advertisements in Late Qing Shanghai
[Abstract]
Zhang Zhong-min
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189
This article focuses on counterfeit Chinese medicine advertisements in Shanghai during the late Qing, and also consults related sources from the Republican period. I illustrate the procedures behind the creation of advertisements and the reactions of their readers and consumers, thereby revealing how these medicine advertisements were actually made. They were produced by professional writers hired by the pharmacies; the supposed endorsements provided in the advertisements were also elaborate frauds, which in fact could not guarantee cures, and were not even the real reactions of consumers. Although this counterfeiting was exposed and criticized by people at that time, most of the pharmacies were never penalized; their medicines and advertisements remained welcome in the media, and continued to wield an enormous influence on the construction of the culture of the tonic and consumption in modern China.
Keyword
:advertisements, pharmacies of Shanghai, Western medicine, expert testimony, counterfeiting
Book Reviews
Chen Wei-hsin,
Russia in the Qing Diplomatic Protocol System and Negotiations over Vassal Status
Yu Shu-chun
PDF
249
Gloria Davies,
Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
Duan Lian
PDF
255
Sasagawa Yuji and Okumura Satoshi,
Chinese Society on the Home Front
Wang Chao-jan
PDF
263
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