Chen Jitong and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World
A Review of Fin-de-Siècle Diplomat: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World, by Ke Ren. In…
Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing
A review of Complicated Matters: Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing from 1750 to 1911 by Maura D. Dykstra. Chinese…
State and Nation in the Qinghai Frontier, 1911-1949
A review of Qinghai Across the Frontier: State- and Nation-Building under the Ma Family, 1911-1949, by William Brent Haas. This…
Mongolian Identities in the Qing-Republican Transition
A review of Ethnicizing the Frontier: Imperial Transformation and Ethnic Confrontations in China-Inner Mongolia, 1890s-1930s, by Liping Wang. Ethnicizing the…
Spanish Travelers in China, 1870-1910
A review of Nostalgia imperial: crónicas de viajeros españoles por China (1870-1910) [Imperial Nostalgia: chronicles of Spanish travelers in China…
Tourist Culture in China, 1895-1949
A review of On the Move: Tourist Culture in China, 1895-1949, by António Eduardo Hawthorne Barrento. In recent decades, a…
Patrons and Priests in Amdo Tibet 1791-1911
A review of Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet under Qing Rule, 1791-1911, by Max Gordon Oidtmann. This is an…
Qing Colonial Legal Culture in Amdo Tibet
Qing Colonial Legal Culture in Amdo Tibet An earlier version of this article was published at the International Society for…
Transforming Inner Mongolia’s Frontier
A review of Transforming the Frontier: Land, Commerce, and Chinese Colonization in Inner Mongolia, 1700-1911, by Yi Wang. Recent studies of…
The Qing Invention of Nature
A review of: The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment, Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia, 1750-1850 by Jonathan Schlesinger. For…