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Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China book cover

1st Edition

Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China

Edited By Anne-Marie Brady, Douglas Brown Copyright 2013
289 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction. Foreign Bodies: Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China, Anne-Marie Brady and Douglas Brown  I. Heterotopic China  1. The 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, 1925-30, 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  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  III. With China at War  10. "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China, Megan Clayton 11. Italians in Nationalist China (1928-45): 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

Biography

Anne-Marie Brady is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Douglas Brown teaches in the English department of John Abbott College in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.

The essays are certainly wide-ranging, with the foreigners discussed in the collection ranging from “Soviet comrades and the institutions of the Comintern, to English teachers, women activists, a freelance female journalist and a Contessa, Western aesthetes and sexual tourists as well as Japanese, Koreans, colonial New Zealanders and Italians of both elevated and humble rank." As one small window into Republican China, these vignettes provide some limited, butnevertheless informative, insights into that period of Chinese history and are well worth reading. - A. Tom Grunfeld, SUNY Empire State College

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