Subject: Modernization--China--19th century

China's early industrialization : Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin enterprise
AuthorFeuerwerker, Albert, 1927-
PlaceNew York
PublisherAtheneum
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesHarvard East Asian studies ; 1
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberHC427.7.F4 1970
Description311, xxxii p. : port., ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteChina's early industrialization : Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin enterprise / Albert Feuerwerker
"Originally published by Harvard University Press in the Harvard East Asian Series.
"Bibliography of Western works": p. i-viii; "Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese works": p. ix-xxiii.
Reprint of 1958 edition.
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Li Hongzhang pingzhuan : Zhongguo jindaihua de qishi 李鴻章評傳 : 中國近代化的起始. [Li Hung-chang and China's early modernization. Chinese]
AuthorLiu, Kwang-Ching, [Liu Guangjing 劉廣京], 1921-2006Chu, Samuel C. [ Zhu Changleng 朱昌崚 ]Chen Jiang 陳絳
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition第1版
LanguageChinese 中文[簡體字]
TypeBook
Series
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North
Call NumberDS761.2.L512 1995
Description3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 403, [4] p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
NoteLi Hongzhang pingzhuan : Zhongguo jindaihua de qishi 李鴻章評傳 : 中國近代化的起始 = Li Hung-chang and China's early modernization / [美] Liu Guangjing, Zhu Changling bian 劉廣京, 朱昌崚編 ; Chen Jiang yijiao 陳絳譯校.
Translation of: Li Hung-chang and China's early modernization.
English ed. originally published: Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.(Held at Gleeson Library)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-378) and index.
Appendix in Chinese and English.
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ISBN7532520021 ; 9787532520022
LCCN97456069
Shen Pao-chen and China's modernization in the nineteenth century
AuthorPong, David [Pang Baiteng 龐百騰], 1939-
PlaceCambridge, Eng.
PublisherCambridge University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesCambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberDS763.63.S53 P66 1994d
Descriptionpdf. [xviii, 395 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm]
NoteShen Pao-chen and China's modernization in the nineteenth century / David Pong.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-360) and index.

1. Early years -- 2. Local official in Kiangsi, 1856-1859 -- 3. Governor of Kiangsi, 1862-1865 -- 4. First encounters with foreigners -- 5. Director-general of the Foochow Navy Yard -- 6. The Foochow Navy Yard: early developments, 1866-1867 -- 7. The Foochow Navy Yard: administration and personnel -- 8. The Foochow Navy Yard: building and training programmes -- 9. The Foochow Navy Yard: financial crises -- 10. The next steps in defence modernization: Ma-wei and beyond -- 11. Towards a plan for self-strengthening.

This is a study of China's attempt to meet the challenges of the nineteenth century. Using the career of Shen Pao-chen as a looking glass, Professor Pong examines the political awakening of a small coterie of Ching dynasty officials as they responded to dynastic decline and the ever-growing threat of Western encroachment on China. Driven by a deep sense of crisis, they dedicated themselves to "self-strengthening," a two-pronged effort to restore the vitality of the Ching dynasty and to protect it from further foreign inroads by adopting Western technology, especially military technology.

What is remarkable about Shen Pao-chen is that, despite his strong Confucian background, he devoted himself to developing China's first modern naval dockyard and academy - the Foochow Navy Yard. No other Ching official of a comparable stature sacrificed his career for a job considered fit only for lowly officials. Shen's successes and failures articulate the complex relationship between Confucianism and modernization. This study, while acknowledging the inhibiting effects of certain aspects of Confucian ideology and culture on modernization, demonstrates that Confucianism, as understood by practical and reform-minded officials like Shen, was a powerful motivating force for change.

The author thus searches broadly for an answer to the perennial question, why did China fail to reach its goal as it struggled to modernize? The result is a study of modernization that sheds new light on the role of provincial and central government politics, the problem of public finance, the function of the gentry as managers of a modernizing enterprise, the issue of transfer of technology, and the Western presence in China. Many of these topics acquire new meaning and significance as China engages in a new phase of economic and industrial modernization in the post-Mao era.--OCLC record note.

Local access dig.pdf. [Pong-Shen Pao-chen.pdf]
Physical copy at Gleeson Library.

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