Colonialism, China and the Chinese
This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and demographic force in its own right. Where histories of China commonly highlight episodes of conflict and subjugation in Chinas relations with the West, the contributions to this volume explore the complex spaces where empires and their peoples did not merely collide but also became entangled.
Matthew P. Fitzpatrick is Professor of International History at Flinders University in Adelaide. His research is in the field of German and European history, particularly the history of European imperialism, German liberalism and nationalism. He is also interested in the comparative history of empires and intellectual history. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is working on the Australian Research Council-funded project Monarchy, Democracy and Empire.
Peter Monteath was born in Brisbane and educated in Queensland and in Germany. He has taught previously at The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Deakin University, The University of Western Australia and The University of Adelaide. He has also been Adjunct Professor at The University of St. Louis Missouri and the Technical University of Berlin, where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. His latest book, Captured Lives (2018), is a study of internment in Australia in both World Wars.
Empires in Perspective
Series Editor: Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto
This important series examines a diverse range of imperial histories from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Drawing on works of political, social, economic and cultural history, the history of science and political theory, the series encourages methodological pluralism and does not impose any particular conception of historical scholarship. While focused on particular aspects of empire, works published also seek to address wider questions on the study of imperial history.
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Colonialism, China and the Chinese
Edited by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath
Colonialism, China and the Chinese
Edited by
Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath
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Names: Fitzpatrick, Matthew P., author. | Monteath, Peter, author.
Title: Colonialism, China and the Chinese/Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Peter Monteath.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Empires in perspective | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019010836 | ISBN 9781138389403 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429423925 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429753466 (adobe) | ISBN 9780429753442 (mobi) | ISBN 9780429753459 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaForeign relations1644-1912. | ChinaForeign relations1912-1949. | ChinaColonizationHistory19th century. | ChinaColonizationHistory20th century. | Chinese diasporaHistory19th century. | Chinese diasporaHistory20th century. | ChinaCivilizationForeign influences. | ImperialismHistory19th century. | ImperialismHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC DS754.18 .F58 2019 | DDC 327.51009/041dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-38940-3 (hbk)
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Contents
MATTHEW P. FITZPATRICK AND PETER MONTEATH
CLEMENS BTTNER
TOM NEUHAUS
MEI-FEN KUO AND JOHN FITZGERALD
YIYAN WANG
KRIS ALEXANDERSON
BERNARD Z. KEO
PAUL MACGREGOR
YIXU LU
LIU WENMING
TAMARA COOPER
PETER MONTEATH
This book was enabled by the research collaboration funds offered by Flinders University, and by funds from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP 180100118, Monarchy Democracy and Empire, funded by the Australian government. The authors would like to thank both organisations for this funding support. The editors would also like to thank Lisa Mudge for her assistance with the index. Finally, for their assistance, encouragement and support in many capacities and through various phases of this project, we would like to thank Dana Moss, Rob Langham, Sonja Yates and Kerry Ludwig.
Kris Alexanderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of the Pacific (California, USA), where she teaches courses on world history, maritime history, and the history of science and technology. She received her PhD from Rutgers University and was a Fulbright IIE scholar to the Netherlands. Her first book, Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks Across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (2019), is at once a history of global maritime networks connecting colonial Indonesia to port cities in East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and a ship-level history of the everyday lives and political struggles of colonial subjects travelling across the worlds oceans. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-2827
Clemens Bttner is Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sinology at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). He studied Sinology, Modern History and Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen (Germany), Fudan University in Shanghai and Beijing Language and Culture University. In 2015, he received his PhD from Friedrich-Alexander-University. His interests lie in Chinese intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, he has examined Chinese modernisation efforts in the fields of military professionalisation and the development of religious Confucianism. His current research focuses on the relationship between nationalism and militarism. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-921X
