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Date： 2025 Attack and Defense in North China: Re-evaluating Chiang Kai-shek’s Policy of “Internal Peace Before Foreign Resistance” (1932-1937) Author(s)： Huang Tzu-Chin Abstract： In terms of research methodology, this book neither approaches military matters in isolation nor merely analyzes inter-state aggression and counter-aggression. Instead, it examines the subject through...	Date： 2025 The Establishment and Evolution of Modern Chinese Rural Systems, 1900-1980s: A Study Centered on Villages Surveyed by Mantetsu Author(s)： Yao-huang Chen Abstract： Among the voluminous research on modern rural China, few have specifically addressed the rural institutional system. Relying on theories such as 'state involution,' we often casually dismiss t...
Date： 2024 A Brilliant Literary Achievement: Liang Qichao and the Modern Interpretation of Eastern and Western Learning Author(s)： Max K. W. Huang Abstract： The phrase “a brilliant literary achievement” comes from Hu Shi’s elegiac couplet to Liang Qichao, which reads, “Throughout his life, he recognized himself as the New Citizen o...	Date： 2024 Daily Crime and Qing Society: Multivariate Analysis of Chinese Thief Cases in the Nineteenth Century Author(s)： Jen-shu Wu, Jing-jie Wu Abstract： Daily Crime and Qing Society: Multivariate Analysis of Chinese Thief Cases in the Nineteenth Century
Date： 2024 Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security Author(s)： Kuan-Jen Chen Abstract： Shifting the focus from land to sea when considering the Cold War in East Asia, Kuan-Jen Chen sheds light on the importance of the ‘oceanic’ lens as a structural imperative in grand strate...	Date： 2023 The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China: Toward a Statecraft beyond Science Author(s)： Chen-cheng Wang Abstract： This book is a political history of global attempts to reduce politics to science and the results of such an attempt in modern China. The book follows the discourses and activities of a special group ...
Date： 2023 The Making of the Enlightenment, The Making of a Movement: A Conceptual History of the Enlightenment in Modern China Author(s)： Chen Chien-shou Abstract：晚清以降，東西文化交流劇增，大量新名詞如潮水般湧向中國。本書結合概念史和全球史的取徑，探索英語世界的“Enlightenment”傳入東亞後，如何在1880–1980這百年間的中國轉譯為「啟蒙運動」，進而發...	Date： 2023 War, Institutions and Thought: The Rise of the General Staff in Modern China Author(s)： Su Sheng-hsiung Abstract： This book is the first to examine the modern Chinese General Staff, demonstrating that, institutionally, the late Qing Dynasty placed great emphasis on the high-level staff organization as a means of ...
Date： 2022 Fabricating Divine Prestige: The Cult of He Xiangu and Local Society in Guangdong’s Zengjiang River Basin, 960-1864 Author(s)： Hsiao-ching Liao Abstract： Fabricating Divine Prestige: The Cult of He Xiangu and Local Society in Guangdong’s Zengjiang River BasiAccording to legend, Zengcheng, Guangzhou is the hometown of the goddess “He Xiangu&...	Date： 2022 The Establishment of the Asia-Pacific Security Regime and the Conclusion of the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty during the Cold War Author(s)： Huang Tzu-Chin Abstract： The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty, as its name implies, was a bilateral treaty signed between the Republic of China and Japan. However, in actuality, it was the result of maneuvering b...

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