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Bulletin
Vol. 88
ISSN：
1029-4740
Date：
2015-6
Softcover：250 TWD
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253
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Abstract：
This issue contains four articles: “State and Masses: The Building and Evolution of a Basic Street Institution in Beijing, 1949-1962,” by Chen Yao-huang; “Preliminary Research on ‘Provincial Friends’ in the Qing Dynasty,” by Pei Danqing; “The Emergence of a Civic Architecture: Discourses and Practices of Public Libraries in Late Qing and Early Republican China,” by Delin Lai; “‘Meiji Knowledge’ and the Politics of Colonial Taiwan: The Discourse of ‘National Character’ and the Policy of Assimilation before the 1920s,” by Hung-Yueh Lan; Review Articles: “Discovering Modern History in China: A Discussion of Some Issues Raised by Li Huaiyin’s Recent Work:
Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing
,” by Yeh Yi-chun; Book Reviews: “Dai Jingxian,
Qian Binsi [Qian Mu] and Modern Chinese Scholarship,” by Wong Young
-tsu; “Niimura Yoko,
Origins of the Opium War: Huang Juezi and His Network
,” by Tang Yi-Hsuan; “Barbara Mittler,
A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture
,” by David Cheng Chang.
Contents
Articles
State and Masses: The Building and Evolution of a Basic Street Institution in Beijing, 1949-1962
[Abstract]
Chen Yao-huang
PDF
1
In the cities of contemporary China, the jie-ju (street-resident, neighborhood) system, which consists of sub-district offices and residents’ committees, is a very familiar but not yet fully understood institution. How did this system originate and evolve? What is the relationship between this local institution and state and urban residents? We still do not know much about how this system operates. Over the past decades, accompanied by the booming of the shequ (community) system, scholars began to pay attention to the history of the jie-ju system. This article will investigate the building and evolution of this basic street institution in Beijing in the 1950s and early 1960s, and on this basis explore the nature of the governing system of the People’s Republic of China.
Keyword
：Beijing, basic street institution, neighborhood system, sub-district office, residents’ committee
Preliminary Research on “Provincial Friends” in the Qing Dynasty
[Abstract]
Pei Danqing
PDF
55
“Provincial friends” (shengyou), also called “servants in the province,” (zuosheng jiaren), mostly consisted of a local official’s clerks and personal servants. They were stationed in the provincial capital all year round and were responsible for the contacts with clerks working for the provincial government to acquire information, handle reports and guaranties from the outgoing magistrate to his successor, submit documents, draw salaries and deliver various fees, and hand over convicts to the provincial judge, and so forth. Competent to handle provincial affairs, “provincial friends” were trusted by the district magistrate. Sometimes they were also summoned by the provincial administration commissioner or provincial surveillance commissioner to act as county representatives to deal with provincial annual expenditure reports and general amnesties, thus playing an integral role in local administrative operations in the Qing Dynasty. Due to the limited communications between the county and provincial capitals, the highly centralized political system, and the “small government” of the Qing, “provincial friends” tended to persist in the local government in spite of repeated prohibitions from the central government.
Keyword
：“provincial friends,” “servants in the province,” customary fees, clerks of the provincial government
The Emergence of a Civic Architecture: Discourses and Practices of Public Libraries in Late Qing and Early Republican China
[Abstract]
Delin Lai
PDF
95
This article focuses on both library science and architcture to examine the design of the modern libraries in China in light of social and cultural practice. First, I discuss how reformers who sought to disseminate new knowledge influenced the discourses and practices of modern libraries during the late imperial and early republican period. Second, I examine the influence of traditional Chinese architecture and the life experiences of scholar-gentry on the spatial layout, and the reader-book relationship of a number of major public libraries, with a special focus on the National Peking Library as a preserver of national cultural heritage. Libraries also embodied social and cultural concerns that reflected the interests of governments at various levels, as well as those of cultural institutions and social groups (including Westerners in China). Library construction thus won broad social support and diversified patronage that was unparalleled with any other building type in modern China. I conclude with a reexamination of the notion of “civic space,” which should not be limited to state-owned architecture as Charles T. Goodsell defines it.
Keyword
：modern Chinese architecture, modern library movement, National Peking Library, civic architecture, Charles T. Goodsell
“Meiji Knowledge” and the Politics of Colonial Taiwan: The Discourse of “National Character” and the Policy of Assimilation before the 1920s
[Abstract]
Hung-Yueh Lan
PDF
151
This article highlights how Western concepts such as “Geist” or “national character” were translated into Japanese as kokuminsei (國民性) on the basis of Japanese Kangaku (漢學) during the Meiji period. Then, I examine how the discourse of kokuminsei applied to the policy of assimilation in colonial Taiwan before the 1920s. This research focuses on officials of the Japanese Empire who employed kokuminsei and related concepts in colonial Taiwan, including Isawa Shūji, Gotō Shinpei, and Den Kenjirō. This article also surveys Taiwanese intellectuals’ understanding and application of kokuminsei and related concepts to construct their thought. I conclude that the spread of translations of modern Western knowledge from Japan into Taiwan was influenced by the Kangaku tradition and the notion of same-language-same-culture (doubun 同文), but the difference of social and languages contexts between Japan and Taiwan led to misunderstandings between Japanese officials and Taiwanese intellectuals. It is the resemblances and differences in terms of modern Western knowledge, “Meiji knowledge” (knowledge created during the Meiji era), and knowledge of Chinese Confucianism that made the layers of knowledge in colonial Taiwan highly complicated.
Keyword
：Kangaku, nationalism, kokuminsei, policy of assimilation, colonial Taiwan
Review Articles
“Discovering Modern History in China: A Discussion of Some Issues Raised by Li Huaiyin’s Recent Work”: Huaiyin Li,
Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing
Yeh Yi-chun
PDF
205
Book Reviews
Dai Jingxian,
Qian Binsi [Qian Mu] and Modern Chinese Scholarship
Wong Young-tsu
PDF
223
Niimura Yoko,
Origins of the Opium War: Huang Juezi and His Network
Tang Yi-Hsuan
PDF
231
Barbara Mittler,
A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture
David Cheng Chang
PDF
239
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