Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China by Anne-Marie Brady (Eng

Description: Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China by Anne-Marie Brady, Douglas Brown Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim, and moves beyond the depiction of foreigners as privileged and the Chinese as simply weak. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. Indeed, this book examines how diverse and sometimes seemingly peripheral foreign individuals and communities influenced literature, education, trade, sexual morality, warfare, and architecture in China and in the process were themselves profoundly changed, in ways that are as remarkable as those experienced by the Chinese they had come to observe, meet, exploit, conquer, assist, or change. Bringing together the work of a diverse group of scholars on Republican China, this edited volume adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to the study of foreigners in China, and utilises the perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science. As such, this interesting and innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars from diverse fields including Chinese and global history, politics and international relations, Chinese studies, literary studies and gender studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Anne-Marie Brady is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.Douglas Brown teaches in the English department of John Abbott College in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. Table of Contents Introduction. Foreign Bodies: Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China I. Heterotopic China 1. The Italian Production of Space in Tianjin: Heterotopia and Emotional Capital 2. Lending Words: Foreign Language Education and Teachers in Republican Peking 3. Redefining Institutional Identity: the YWCA Challenge to Extraterritoriality in China, 1925-30 4. Comintern Activists in China: Spies or Theorists? 5. Observations of the Political and Economic Situation in China by the British Mercantile Community during the Civil War, 1945-1949 II. Shanghaied: Morality Tales from the Paris of the East 6. Shanghai Three Ways: the 1930s view from Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai 7. Adventurers, Aesthetes, and Tourists: Foreign Homosexuals in Republican China 8. Sissywood vs. Alleyman: Going Nose to Nose in Shanghai, Douglas Brown 9. Takeda Taijun in Shanghai: Recollections of Republican China and Imperial Japan III. With China at War 10. "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China 11. Italians in Nationalist China (1928-45): Some case studies 12. Struggling Through Times of Darkness and Despair: Korean Communists from the Anti-Japanese Resistance to the Chinese Civil War Review The essays are certainly wide-ranging, with the foreigners discussed in the collection ranging from "Soviet comrades and the institutions of the Comintern, to English teachers, women activists, a freelance female journalist and a Contessa, Western aesthetes and sexual tourists as well as Japanese, Koreans, colonial New Zealanders and Italians of both elevated and humble rank." As one small window into Republican China, these vignettes provide some limited, butnevertheless informative, insights into that period of Chinese history and are well worth reading. - A. Tom Grunfeld, SUNY Empire State College Review Quote The essays are certainly wide-ranging, with the foreigners discussed in the collection ranging from "Soviet comrades and the institutions of the Comintern, to English teachers, women activists, a freelance female journalist and a Contessa, Western aesthetes and sexual tourists as well as Japanese, Koreans, colonial New Zealanders and Italians of both elevated and humble rank." As one small window into Republican China, these vignettes provide some limited, butnevertheless informative, insights into that period of Chinese history and are well worth reading. - A. Tom Grunfeld, SUNY Empire State College Details ISBN1138851760 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2015 ISBN-10 1138851760 ISBN-13 9781138851764 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Douglas Brown DEWEY 303.48251009041 Birth 1965 Author Douglas Brown Short Title FOREIGNERS & FOREIGN INSTITUTI Language English Media Book Affiliation University of Canterbury, New Zealand Publication Date 2015-03-04 Pages 279 Illustrations 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2015-03-04 AU Release Date 2015-03-04 NZ Release Date 2015-03-04 Series Chinese Worlds Alternative 9780415528658 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134464250;

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