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Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China (2024)
Thesis
Huang, A. A. Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Going beyond contemporary identitarian understandings of ‘transgender’ and the dominant Western ‘mid-century’ transsexual historiography, this thesis explores more diverse, fluid, and non-medicalised forms of male-to-female gender-crossing in Ming-Qi... Read More about Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China.

The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893 (2023)
Thesis
Lu, J. The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to overcome the essentialist conception of Chinese politics as inherently authoritarian, the modernist view of statism as representing a rupture in Chinese political culture, and the teleological reconstruction of modern Chinese hist... Read More about The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893.

Landscapes and Environmental Change: Famous Views of Linfen (2020)
Book Chapter
Janku, A. (2020). Landscapes and Environmental Change: Famous Views of Linfen. In M. M. Merviö (Ed.), Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies (118-134). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1807-6.ch007

This chapter is the second part of an exploration into the history and meaning of landscapes, based on a case study of the “must-see” scenic spots or Eight Views (bajing 八景) of Linfen County in the south of China's Shanxi province. While the first... Read More about Landscapes and Environmental Change: Famous Views of Linfen.

Landscapes and Local Identity: the Eight Views of Linfen (2020)
Book Chapter
Janku, A. (2020). Landscapes and Local Identity: the Eight Views of Linfen. In M. M. Merviö (Ed.), Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies (95-117). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1807-6.ch006

This chapter is the first part of an exploration into the history and meaning of landscapes, based on a case study of the “must-see” scenic spots or Eight Views (bajing 八景) of Linfen County in the south of China's Shanxi province. County histories... Read More about Landscapes and Local Identity: the Eight Views of Linfen.

Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History (2018)
Book
Liu, T.-J., Janku, A., & Pietz, D. (Eds.). (2018). Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351182928

Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this boo... Read More about Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History.

Foreign Puppets, Christian Mothers or Revolutionary Martyrs? : The Multiple Identities of Missionary School Girls in East China, 1917-1952 (2018)
Thesis
Bond, J. Foreign Puppets, Christian Mothers or Revolutionary Martyrs? : The Multiple Identities of Missionary School Girls in East China, 1917-1952. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My PhD thesis examines the experience of girls who attended missionary middle schools in East China 1917-1952. I look at four schools across three cities: In Shanghai, St. Mary’s founded by the American Episcopal Church in 1881 and McTyeire, an Ameri... Read More about Foreign Puppets, Christian Mothers or Revolutionary Martyrs? : The Multiple Identities of Missionary School Girls in East China, 1917-1952.

“New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy (2013)
Book Chapter
Janku, A. (2013). “New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy. In M. Doleželová-Velingerová, & R. G. Wagner (Eds.), Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870‐1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought (329-366). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35916-3_10

The chapter on “Political Economy,” Jingji 經濟, in Explorations into the Origins of Western Learning, Xixue tanyuan 西學探源, written in Chinese by the Japanese official-turned-educator and political writer Okamoto Kansuke 罔本監輔 (1839–1904) and p... Read More about “New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy.