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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...
Date： 2008 Divine Justice -- Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture Author(s)： Paul R. Katz Abstract： The primary goal of this book is to consider the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap...