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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.

Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics (2012)
Book
Janku, A., Schenk, G. J., & Mauelshagen, F. (Eds.). (2012). Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203131626

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have inc... Read More about Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics.