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Date： 2012 Chiang Kai-shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History Author(s)： Huang Tzu-chin Abstract： This book examines the relationship between China and Japan through the experiences of Chiang Kai-shek, with special focus on the interactions between Chiang, Japan, and the Chinese Communist Party (C...	Date： 2012 Domination and Disintegration: Communist Revolution in Hebei, 1921–1949 Author(s)： CHEN, YAO-HUANG Abstract： The Chinese Communist Party was born in a divided Chinese society. As a result, the Party could not exert dominance by the power of organization from the top down, nor did it want to be engulfed by th...
Date： 2012 Institutional Transplantation: The Chinese Lawyers in Republican Shanghai (1912–1937) Author(s)： SUN, HUEI-MIN Abstract： This book examines the development of Western-style Chinese lawyers in early Republican Shanghai. It explores how various political and social forces wrestled and negotiated with one another to ensure...	Date： 2012 After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924 Author(s)： Peter Zarrow Abstract： After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924 begins with the following question: How was it that Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor and imagined a radically...
Date： 2011 Ruling All under Heaven with Filial Piety:The Xiaojing in Late Imperial China Author(s)： LU, MIAW-FEN Abstract： This monograph examines the relationship between the Xiaojing (The Classic of Filial Piety) and the political and social culture of late imperial China. Taking the diverse nature of the Xiaojing into ...	Date： 2011 Saved by the Korean War? U.S. Policy toward Taiwan, 1950-1953 Author(s)： CHANG, SU-YA Abstract： Cross-Strait relations between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, as well as United States policy toward both, originated during the Korean War—a war that Taiwan off...
Date： 2011 Chiang Kai-shek: Between Friend and Foe Author(s)： Huang TZU-CHIN Abstract： This book begins by describing how Chiang Kai-shek’s experiences studying in Japan during his youth shaped his personality and created an everlasting bond with that nation. In his later years, a...	Date： 2010 Survival of the Fittest: Yan Fu and the Cultural Transformation of Modern China Author(s)： Huang Ko-wu Abstract： This book takes Yan Fu as an example to investigate the complicated processes of cultural transformation in modern China. Yan had studied abroad and belonged to the first generation of “new inte...
Date： 2009 On and Off the Playing Fields: A Modern History of Physical Education for Girls in Eastern China (1895-1937) Author(s)： Yu Chien-ming Abstract： Drawing on the perspective of gender, this book investigates the links between female physical education, the state, and the socio-cultural sphere during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...	Date： 2008 The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism Author(s)： Max K. W. Huang Abstract： This book is about how one of the leading intellectual architects of Chinese modernization, Yan Fu (1854-1921), introduced the Chinese intellectual world to the liberalism of John Stuart Mill (1806-18...

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