All Outputs (11)

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.

War and Postal Communication in Republican China (2023)
Thesis
Chen, L.-C. War and Postal Communication in Republican China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores why and how the postal service continued to service the public in unfortunate conditions when China was involved in conflicts and wars in the Republican era. It discusses the national and international transformation and maintena... Read More about War and Postal Communication in Republican China.

The Xiyang People in the Early Qing Empire, 1644-1724 (2022)
Thesis
Kang, W. The Xiyang People in the Early Qing Empire, 1644-1724. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The aim of this dissertation is to grasp the status and significance of the Xiyang people (the people referred to using the ethnonym ‘Xiyang’) in the context of the early Qing Empire beyond the East (China)-West (Europe) or foreign relations framewor... Read More about The Xiyang People in the Early Qing Empire, 1644-1724.

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.

Nation, fashion and women’s everyday lives : breast-binding in China, 1910s-1970s (2017)
Thesis
Jiao, L. Nation, fashion and women’s everyday lives : breast-binding in China, 1910s-1970s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Navigating protectionism: Diederichsen, Jebsen & Companyin German Qingdao and the world, 1898-1908 (2014)
Thesis
So, W. L. Navigating protectionism: Diederichsen, Jebsen & Companyin German Qingdao and the world, 1898-1908. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930 (2012)
Book Chapter
Janku, A. (2012). From Natural to National Disaster: The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930. In A. Janku, G. J. Schenk, & F. Mauelshagen (Eds.), Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics (227-260). Routledge

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.

Protestant Medical Missionary Experience during the War in China 1937-1945: The Case of Hubei Province (2010)
Thesis
Chatterton, J. Protestant Medical Missionary Experience during the War in China 1937-1945: The Case of Hubei Province. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

During the war medical missionaries were able to demonstrate fully their raison d’être of service and professionalism to the Chinese and their fellow countrymen. In retrospect it can be seen that the war proved to be a golden age of opportunity for... Read More about Protestant Medical Missionary Experience during the War in China 1937-1945: The Case of Hubei Province.