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Journal of Chinese History

Subject Areas: History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 2059-1640
SJR: 4

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Leaking Rulers and Confidential Officials: Secrecy and Status in Early Chinese Political Culture

Habberstad, Luke

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.14

Abstract This article traces the spread of a norm of confidentiality within elite political culture during the Warring States, Qin, and Western Han periods. Instead of an emphasis on secrecy within military and administrative contexts, it explores discussions of “leaking” (xie 泄/洩 or lou 漏) and...
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Toward a Nation Defined by State: Tattooed Loyalty and the Evolution of Yue Fei's (1103–1142) Image from the Song to the Present

Du, Yue

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.7

Abstract This article discusses how the legendary general Yue Fei (1103–1142) and his legacy have been perceived and appropriated in Chinese history. Twentieth-century historians approached Yue's career by highlighting the tension between his dedication to the nation (baoguo) and his personal...
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Quota, Class, and Political Violence in Mao's China

Cheng, Yinghong

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2022.43

Abstract By investigating a one thousandth national execution quota issued in the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (1950–1953), the article explores an aspect of Maoist politics that has largely escaped mainstream scholarship on Mao, the CCP, and PRC history. It shows how the newly...
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Worse than Hitler and Nazi Germany: Swiss Diplomats and the Cultural Revolution

Knüsel, Ariane

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2022.13

Abstract This article relies on reports written by Swiss diplomats during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing to discuss how they experienced the Cultural Revolution, and how the violence and chaos that they witnessed in 1966 and 1967 affected their mental health. Switzerland's importance as a hub...
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The Cessation of Zheng He's Voyages and the Beginning of Private Sailings: Fiscal Competition between Emperors and Bureaucrats

Siu, Yiu

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2022.45

Abstract The Ming court launched its famous expeditions overseas in the early fifteenth century and suddenly terminated these voyages after 1436. This article attempts to reassess the driving force of this event and its termination in the context of the Ming's domestic financial system, revealing...
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Science, Religion and Sino-Western Exchanges: Literati-Jesuit Translation of Euclidean Geometry and Its Reception from Late Ming to Mid-Qing

Wang, Wensheng

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2022.38

Abstract This essay explores the interlocking roles of science and religion in Sino-Western exchanges by examining China's encounter with Jesuit mathematics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It first focuses on late Ming by studying the joint translation of Euclidean geometry by...
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Was There an Administrative Revolution?

Qiao, George Zhijian

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.19

Abstract This essay takes a close look at Maura Dykstra's monograph Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine (Harvard Asia Center, 2022). It analyzes the book's multitude of problems, such as its flawed conception, numerous factual blunders, failure to engage existing scholarship, problematic choice...
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Response to George Qiao's Review of Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State

Dykstra, Maura

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.35

A review published in this journal claims that my first academic monograph, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), fails to meet “basic academic standards” (George Zhijian...
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Book Review: Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire's Penal-Military Complex

Wyatt, Don J.

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.20
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Book Review: Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam

Macauley, Melissa

2024 Journal of Chinese History

doi:10.1017/jch.2023.24

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