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	Late Imperial China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Late Imperial China refers to the period between the end of Mongol rule and the establishment of the Republic of China and includes the Ming and Qing dynasties.
		The use of early/mid and late imperial China is preferred by many economic, cultural, and social historians over the standard dynastic periodization in that it emphasizes social and economic continuities between dynasties.
		In particular, there is a consensus among historians that unlike the Yuan dynasty, the Manchu invasions did not mark a sharp discontinuity in Chinese history and that most of the cultural and social trends of the period crossed the Ming-Qing division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Late_Imperial_China (166 words)

	AAS Abstracts: China Session 45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The temple was not exclusively the location of a state cult and imperial sacrifices to Confucius as the "ultimate sage" of literati culture.
		The rites were, therefore, of relatively late provenance, and in Ming times officials were increasingly concerned with the eradication of any remnants of Buddhist appearances or practices.
		In Ming rites at the Confucian temple at the Imperial Academy, however, no such resemblance obtained between the emperor and the spirit of Confucius, or between the contrived image of the Sage (which was the product of the artisan's imagination) and the age's ineffable spirit itself, which was mysterious beyond ordinary understanding.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/china/csess45.htm (2262 words)

	Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this new addition to scholarship on law in late imperial Chinese society, Matthew Sommer explicitly rejects standards of "progress" applied by scholars who use the history of law in the west as a model.
		First, he rightly challenges scholars like Bret Hinsch who assume the existence in imperial China of homosexuality as a social identity commensurable with that familiar to us in the twentieth century.
		For the editors and others, these resources are valued for the opportunity they provide to integrate social and cultural history, branches of the field that have for too long "tended to go their separate ways" (no page number).
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /chinesehistory/pgp/sommer.htm (694 words)

	\| Fraternity and Fratricide in Late Imperial China \| The American Historical Review, 105.5 \| The History Cooperative
		Fraternity and Fratricide in Late Imperial China
		The dual nature of the way fraternity was constructed in late imperial China—its inclusion of hierarchical and equal elements—made a certain amount of tension between brothers virtually inevitable.
		Settlements of property division in late imperial China often involved provisions for the maintenance of parents, either by setting aside the income from some land for this purpose or by rotating the responsibility for support of parents.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.5/ah001630.html (5449 words)

	Biblography on Modern China
		Land and Lineage in China: A Study of T'ung-ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties.
		Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864.
		Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813.
	www.chss.iup.edu /baumler/modc-bib.html (1057 words)

	Pacific Affairs: Writing Women in Late Imperial China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THIS VOLUME is the result of an unusual conference convened at Yale University in 1993 for scholars of literature and history studying women and writing in late imperial China.
		Instead, Chinese women writers wrote mainly poetry, and their place at the center of a domestic sphere was well secured by the tight relationship between late imperial state power and the structure of the elite joint family.
		Writing in late imperial China was considered a human talent, hardly confined to males and widely celebrated in females.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_199804/ai_n8790791 (618 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		My hypothesis is that regional cities in late Ming Jiangnan, which had surpassed the capital in cultural creativity and economic importance, fostered an urban culture which encompassed both the literati class and the commoner class, and also an urban ethics that was to ease the tension between the rich and the poor.
		In late Ming writings, when it came to describing a large number of urban population, the writers undistinguishably used the term zhong (the masses), or sometimes with some class distinction, shi min (literati and commoners).
		It was in the late imperial era the hierarchical system became more mature, and the urban population spread out more evenly throughout the hierarchy.
	www.sinologic.com /dissertation.html (2211 words)

	literacy, writing and education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Winkelman, John H The Imperial library in southern Sung China; organization, 1127-1279: a study of the operation of the scholarly agencies of the central government.
		Anna Seidel, "Imperial Treasures and Taoist Sacraments: Taoist Roots in the Apocrypha," in: Michel Strickmann ed., Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of R.A.Stein, II (Bruxelles: Institut Belge des hautes études chinoises, 1983) 291-371.
		On late Qing journalism and its place in the changing political culture of the late Qing, such as its contribution to a new kind of public citizinship beyond and besides the state.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /bth/literacytext.htm (13249 words)

	Late Imperial China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		China, a country study From the Library of Congress, this includes a section on the history of China including The Imperial Era.
		China : a historical and cultural dictionary / edited by Michael Dillon.
		Chronicle of the Chinese emperors : the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial China / Ann Paludan
	exlibris.colgate.edu /gateway/late-imperial-china.htm (497 words)

	A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
		Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy.
		Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture.
		He is author of Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (California, 1990; Chinese edition, 1998) and coeditor of Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (California, 1994).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8236.html (464 words)

	Alltagstechniken Chinas: Dagmar Borchard
		Her M.A. thesis focused on the law of inheritance in China from the end of the nineteenth century until the promulgation of the law of inheritance in 1985.
		Her dissertation deals with the legal framework of population and birth planning, especially with the evolution of regulations on the one-child family and eugenic measures since 1979.
		Former studies on penal law and on the history of punishment in late imperial times had to focus on analysing the legal sections of the dynastic histories, the law codices of the Ming and Qing dynasties and some compendia of actual criminal law cases.
	www.tu-berlin.de /~alltag-china/en/texte/ma_db.htm (314 words)

	Imperial Era: III
		By the mid-thirteenth century, the Mongols had subjugated north China, Korea, and the Muslim kingdoms of Central Asia and had twice penetrated Europe.
		Confucian governmental practices and examinations based on the Classics, which had fallen into disuse in north China during the period of disunity, were reinstated by the Mongols in the hope of maintaining order over Han society.
		Rivalry among the Mongol imperial heirs, natural disasters, and numerous peasant uprisings led to the collapse of the Yuan dynasty.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial3.html (1318 words)

	The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
		In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912.
		Drawing on recent critical notions of ethnicity, the author explores the evolution of the 'Eight Banners,' a unique Manchu system of social and military organization that was instrumental in the conquest of the Ming.
		The author argues that as rulers of China the Manchu conquerors had to behave like Confucian monarchs, but that as a non-Han minority they faced other, more complex considerations as well.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0804746842.html (412 words)

	Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China
		This tradition-bound, substantivist or moral economy was fundamentally incompatible with the rational and individualistic traits treasured by modern economic man and woman.
		Late Imperial China's (1550-1930) diverse and commercialized economy did not produce a uniform Confucian merchant culture.
		Answering these questions requires years of research, and Lufrano's book fills a void in the existing literature on China's merchant culture, and points the way to deciphering the nature of the East Asian economic miracle (although lately the word from the street is a burst bubble).
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0044.shtml (1080 words)

	UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press
		Finally the most radical and populist traditions are explored: the quasi-Christian Taipings of the nineteenth century and the elite Republican movement of the early twentieth.
		Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China attempts to define the efforts of groups and individuals to propose alternatives to the formidable socioethical orthodoxy of China's heritage.
		By approaching modern China from its long-standing tradition of dissent, it provides essential reading for those seeking the enduring themes of China's nonofficial history and especially the transition between the late imperial and modern eras.
	www.uhpresshawaii.com /cart/shopcore?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_sku=0-8248-2538-1 (231 words)

	Presentation Articles
		Late Imperial China is available in the library and via Project Muse
		Sommer, Matthew H. “The Uses of Chastity: Sex, Law, and the Property of Widows in Qing China.” Late Imperial China 17, no.2 (June 1996): 77-118.
		Ocko, Jonathan K. “Women, Property, and Law in the People’s Republic of China.” In Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society ed.
	people.whitman.edu /~dottbr/genpres.htm (1097 words)

	Bibliography--East Asian Medicine
		"Meanings of motherhood: reproductive technologies and their uses in Late Imperial China." Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population workshop on abortion and infanticide.
		"Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China: A Study of Physicians in Suzhou." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.
		"Population and Pestilence in T’ang China." _Studia Sino- Mongolica_ 25.
	www.albion.edu /history/chimed/eambiblio/eambib(histanth).htm (2334 words)

	Passionate Women
		This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China.
		It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China.
		The essays also reveal the world of tensions, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China.
	www.brill.nl /product_id9785.htm (175 words)

	Harvard University Press/Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China
		Endymion Wilkinson is Head of Delegation and Ambassador to China for the European Commission.
		This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century.
		The value of this study lies not so much in its conclusion that even without the impact of Western imperialism China would of itself have developed a capitalist society, but rather in the wealth of data the authors present, in this first in-depth study of a relatively advanced region in north China.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/WILLAN.html (274 words)

	MRB: Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
		She proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set of everyday technologies that define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices.
		Bray examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 A.D. She begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierarchies of gender.
		The details she finds in construction manuals, tools, even instructional pictures of looms give students like myself a way to tie the 'big picture' facts down to the human level details that we often don't even realize we've been missing until a book like this comes along.
	www.medical-research-books.com /mrb-books-reviewed/0520208617.html (897 words)

	History 295 Syllabus
		This course is a graduate readings seminar on the history of late imperial China, with particular focus on the last century of the Qing dynasty leading up to the 1911 Revolution.
		Rawlinson, John "China's Failure to Coordinate Her Modern Fleets in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Feuerwerker, Murphey, and Wright, eds., Approaches to Modern Chinese History (California, 1967).
		Esherick, Joseph "Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism," in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Nov.-Dec. 1972).
	home.gwu.edu /~mccord/courses/hst295syl_f2002.html (3070 words)

	Pacific Affairs: Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthew Sommer's book, the latest in a series on law, society and culture in China, examines late Imperial China through the provocative lens of sex regulation.
		In making the family unit the basis of this "sexual order," the courts were naturally obliged to defend it and, in doing so, engaged not only in the formal reinterpretation of law, but in the informal construction of moral stereotypes.
		Needless to say Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China is a major contribution to our understanding of law and sex regulation in late Imperial China.
	newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_200204/ai_n9029332 (541 words)

	The City in Late Imperial China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The City in Late Imperial China is the last of a three-book series of edited volumes covering Chinese urban history from the late imperial period to the PRC.
		Skinner's regional systems model, as applied here for the first time to China's late imperial urban centers, challenged prior Weberian notions of Chinese urbanity and gave researchers a tool with which to view Chinese cities in their own unique and diverse contexts.
		This work continues today to be an often-cited source for its groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of late imperial centers and the regional nature of development within empires.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /chinesehistory/pgp/skinner.htm (665 words)

	Bogliste 1850-1950
		CHING Su and Luo Lun 1978 Landlord and labor in late imperial China : case studies from Shandong / by Jing Su and Luo Lun ; transl.
		GULDIN Gregory Aliyu 1994 The Saga of Anthropology in in China.
		JING Su and LUO Lun 1978 Landlord and Labour in Late Imperial China.
	www.staff.hum.ku.dk /littrup/Boglister/1850bog.htm (6800 words)

	Yuan
		During the Yuan Dynasty, China was part of the Mongol Empire.
		Genghis Khan led the Mongols in their defeat of much of China, however, it was his grandson, Kublai Khan who became the emperor and founder of the Yuan dynasty.
		Second, China was so impoverished that the Mongols did not have a very strong interest in maintaining their hold on China.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/later_imperial_china/yuan.html (673 words)

	The Art of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unofficial Documents of the Democracy Movement in Communist China, 1978-81: A Checklist of Chinese Material in the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace
		China's Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism, 1921-1952 (Revolutionary Studies Series)
		North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-1945
	www.traveldirectorynet.co.uk /books/History/Countries___Regions/Asia/China/General/code/271268part394.html (330 words)

	Landlord And Labor In Late Imperial China: Case Studies From Shandong (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Landlord And Labor In Late Imperial China: Case Studies From Shandong (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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