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Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Heterotopic China
• 1. Italian production of space in Tianjin: heterotopia and emotional capital / Maurizio Marinelli
• 2. Lending words: foreign language education and teachers in Republican Peking / Eric S. Henry
• 3. Redefining institutional identity: the YWCA challenge to extraterritoriality in China, 1925-1930 / Karen Garner
• 4. Comintern activists in China: spies or theorists? / Alexander V. Pantsov
• 5. Observations of the political and economic situation in China by the British mercantile community during the civil war, 1945-1949 / Jason Lim
• pt. II Shanghaied: morality tales from the Paris of the East
• 6. Shanghai three ways: the 1930s view from Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai / Doug Slaymaker
• 7. Adventurers, aesthetes and tourists: foreign homosexuals in Republican China / Anne-Marie Brady
• 8. Sissywood vs. Alleyman: going nose to nose in Shanghai / Douglas Brown
• 9. Takeda Taijun in Shanghai: recollections of Republican China and Imperial Japan / Barbara Hartley
• pt. III With China at war
• 10. "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China / Megan Clayton
• 11. Italians in Nationalist China (1928-1945): some case studies / Guido Samarani
• 12. Struggling through times of darkness and despair: Korean Communists from the anti-Japanese resistance to the Chinese Civil War / Lee Jong-Seok.

Contributors:

Brady, Anne-Marie, 1966-

Brown, Douglas, 1961-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Foreigners and foreign institutions in Republican China (London ; New York : Routledge, 2013 — ISBN 9780415528658; LCCN 2012003954)

Related Series:

Chinese worlds; [volume] 30

Subjects:

China — Relations — History — 20th century

China — Foreign relations — 1912-1949

China — Social conditions — 1912-1949

China — Economic conditions — 1912-1949

Visitors, Foreign — China — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS775.8 .F67 2013

ISBNs:

9780203105122 (electronic bk.)
0203105125 (electronic bk.)
9781136252501 (electronic bk.)
1136252509 (electronic bk.)
9780415528658 [Invalid]
0415528658 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1049177694

Other Control Numbers:

481706 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9674752