03025nam 2200577 450 991045266530332120200520144314.00-7425-5466-X1-4616-4436-4(CKB)2550000001107197(EBL)1319406(OCoLC)854521161(SSID)ssj0000954126(PQKBManifestationID)12394035(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000954126(PQKBWorkID)10938489(PQKB)10693712(MiAaPQ)EBC1319406(Au-PeEL)EBL1319406(CaPaEBR)ebr10928746(CaONFJC)MIL507567(EXLCZ)99255000000110719720070710h20082008 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe human tradition in modern China /edited by Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin StapletonLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,[2008]©20081 online resource (215 p.)Human tradition around the worldIncludes bibliographic references and index.0-7425-5465-1 1-299-76316-2 Li Shizhen: early modern scientist / Kenneth J. Hammond -- Amazon, artist, and adventurer: a courtesan in late imperial China / Daria Berg -- Zou Boqi on vision and photography in nineteenth-century China / Oliver Moore -- Ho Kai: a Chinese reformer in colonial Hong Kong / John Carroll -- Der Ling: Manchu princess, cultural advisor, and author / Shuo Wang -- Li Chenggan: patriot, populist, and factory patriarch / Joshua H. Howard -- The Beijing University students in the May Fourth era: a collective biography / Fabio Lanza -- The reluctant mendicant / Hugh Shapiro -- Hu Lanqi: rebellious woman, revolutionary soldier, discarded heroine, triumphant Survivor / Kristin Stapleton -- Zhao Ruiqin: a peasant woman in Gansu and domestic worker in Beijing / Pan Yihong.Through compelling biographies of a wide range of historical figures, this engaging text presents a panorama of modern Chinese history that illustrates the great social and political changes that have occurred over the past 500 years. Through the lives of both the famous and the obscure, the contributors explore such enduring themes of the flexibility of the definition of 'Chinese' in an era of imperialism and revolution, the tremendous transformations in gender relations, and the wide gap between the lives of urban and rural Chinese. Richly researched, these biographies are written in an acceHuman tradition around the world.ChinaBiographyElectronic books.920.051Hammond Kenneth JamesStapleton Kristin EileenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452665303321The human tradition in modern China2007910UNINA