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ISSN (Print) 0884-3236 - ISSN (Online) 1086-3257
Published by Project MUSE

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Koxinga’s Conquest of Taiwan in Global History: Reflections on the Occasion of the 350th Anniversary
- Abstract: By Tonio Andrade Three hundred and fifty years ago, the Chinese warlord Koxinga conquered the Dutch colony of Formosa, bringing Taiwan under Chinese rule for the first time. The anniversary is being celebrated widely throughout East Asia, but the event itself—Koxinga’s difficult conquest—is still misunderstood. Koxinga is a legendary figure, the subject of movies, cartoons, plays, and novels. He is worshipped as a god in Taiwan, so it is inevitable that the public understanding of the event should be mythologized.1 But even some professional historians perpetuate misconceptions, particularly in mainland China, where the Sino-Dutch war is often portrayed as a clash between rapacious imperialists (the Dutch) and heroic ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v033/33.1.andrade.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: History, Modern
 PubDate: 2012-06-29T00:00:00-05:00
Local Politics and the Canonization of a God: Lord Yang (Yang fujun) in Late Qing Wenzhou (1840–67)
- Abstract: By Roger Shih-Chieh Lo In a commemorative inscription granting a title to Lord Yang, (Yang fujun, also known as Yangfu Ye in Wenzhou dialect) composed in 1867, Wenzhou prefect Dai Pan expressed lingering amazement over the local deity’s divine manifestation twelve years earlier. At the time, Lord Yang had inspired both Yueqing city residents and West District villagers to expel the rebel Qu Zhenghan and his East District followers from the Yueqing county seat in northern Wenzhou prefecture.1 As Dai wrote at the very beginning of his inscription: How amazing the recapture of Yueqing county was! A bandit named Qu launched a rebellion and marched to Yueqing city in the twelfth month of 1854. These rebels gathered in crowds as ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v033/33.1.lo.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Religion and politics
 PubDate: 2012-06-29T00:00:00-05:00
Legal Specialists and Judicial Administration in Late Imperial China, 1651–19111
- Abstract: By Li Chen This article studies the historical origin, legal training, career patterns, professional identity and ethics, judicial philosophy, and scale of professionalization of thousands of legal specialists in late imperial China from about 1651 to 1911. It is the first extensive study in English of these early modern Chinese jurists and legal professionals who were the de facto judges in probably most of the 1,650 Chinese local governments for more than two centuries. Based on archival sources, the article offers an estimate of about 3,000 such trained legal specialists working in local Chinese courts in any given year from roughly 1711 to 1911, which means an estimated total of 30,000 for that period as a whole. The ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v033/33.1.chen.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Lawyers
 PubDate: 2012-06-29T00:00:00-05:00
Daoist Priests and Imperial Sacrifices in Late Imperial China: The Case of the Imperial Music Office (Shenye Guan), 1379–1743*
- Abstract: By Yonghua Liu Established in 1379, the Imperial Music Office (Shenyue guan) remained intact until 1743 when the Qianlong emperor (1711–1799, r. 1735–1795) ordered that it be reorganized into the Shenyue suo.1 This institution provided ritual specialists, musicians, and dancers for, and thus had a close connection to, imperial sacrifices. During its 364 years, Daoist priests who had received certificates served as staff rather than gentry-officials. This group of Daoist priests not only controlled the Imperial Music Office, but also had a remarkable presence in the Court of Imperial Sacrifices (Taichang si) and even the Board of Rites (Libu). They played an indispensable part in imperial sacrifices, either as Confucian masters ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v033/33.1.liu.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Taoism
 PubDate: 2012-06-29T00:00:00-05:00
The Punishment of Examination Riots in the Early to Mid-Qing Period1
- Abstract: By Seunghyun Han The examination boycott (or riot), known as bakao or zukao, was one of the strategies employed by Ming and Qing examination elites to express their discontent and threaten local officials. When apprentice candidates (tongsheng) or licentiates (shengyuan) gathered for an examination administered by local officials or provincial education commissioners, they would try to force the officials to accede to their demands by withdrawing from the examination.2 The term examination candidates or elites used in this article refers to these apprentice candidates or lower-level degree-holders. Bakao action appeared often in the late Ming and early Qing periods, and was deemed a serious threat to local ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.2.han.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Punishment
 PubDate: 2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
The Literati Rewriting of China in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition1
- Abstract: By Matthew W. Mosca Qianlong’s death in 1799 and the fall of the powerful grand councilor Heshen (1750–99), at a time when armed unrest was rising and the government’s capacities diminishing, has long been recognized as a major turning point in Qing history. One characteristic of this period, as Philip Kuhn explains, was that Han literati in and out of office gained more freedom and felt more responsibility to speak out about matters of administration and statecraft. Kuhn places this development in the context of a constitutional agenda centered on “defining the part of the community that properly participates in national politics.” Under Qianlong and his predecessors, political power had increasingly been centralized among ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.2.mosca.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Political science
 PubDate: 2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
Introduction: The Significance of the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition in Qing History
- Abstract: By William T. Rowe Over the past decades, we have learned a great deal about the Qing’s “prosperous age” (shengshi) of the eighteenth century, and about the first kaifang era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But the first half of the nineteenth century, and especially the reign of the Jiaqing emperor (1796–1820) have, in general, attracted much less scholarly attention. The appearance in 1978 of Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn’s landmark Cambridge History of China article on the early nineteenth century “Dynastic Decline and the Roots of Rebellion” struck like a lightning bolt, precisely because, unlike most of the other articles in that volume, which summarized the well-known work on their topics, Jones and ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.2.rowe.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: China
 PubDate: 2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
A Jiangnan Identity in North China: The Making of Jining Urban Culture in the Late Imperial Period
- Abstract: By Jinghao Sun Although Jining today is generally known as the administrative seat for the home district of Confucius and Mencius, it was also a major trading entrepôt from the early fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, roughly the heyday of Grand Canal operation. As recently as 2001, in telling stories about their hometown, local elders spoke primarily of the Grand Canal, the Taibai Pavilion (Taibai lou), the Yutang food-processing firm, along with a variety of stories concerning well-known historical celebrities, sojourners and travelers. Rather than native sages such as Confucius and Mencius, it was sojourning literary and artistic giants who were most commemorated at historical sites such as the Taibai Pavilion in this ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.2.sun.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Jining Shi (Shandong Sheng, China)
 PubDate: 2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
Patrimonial Bonds: Daughters, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua1
- Abstract: By Maram Epstein Based on its interest in filial piety and lack of mention of the Manchu invasion, I argue that the prosimetric tanci Tianyuhua (The Heavens Rain Flowers) was written closer to the earliest publication date of 1804 than the 1651 date given in the preface. Instead of reading the text as a work of Ming loyalism, I read it as a female-authored rewriting of the conventions of scholar-beauty novels and commentary on the sexual institutions that defined the lives of elite women: patrilocal marriage, the structural tension between a woman’s loyalty to her natal family and husband, cloistering, and chastity. Among the most promising textual sources for uncovering the voices and perspectives of cloistered guixiu ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.2.epstein.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Chinese fiction
 PubDate: 2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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