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PROF Julia Strauss' Outputs (16)

From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45 (2023)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2023). From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(4), 806-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2023.2239066

This article studies the Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate, which was imposed upon a weak Chinese government by an international consortium from 1913 till 1949. The founder of the Salt Inspectorate was Sir Richard Dane, a high-level civil servant in the... Read More about From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45.

Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World. The China Quarterly, 239, 804-812. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574101900105X

On a random Tuesday in May 2019, I found myself in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, waiting in a fortunately short and quickly moving immigration line prior to a return flight home. Just to the right was an immigration desk with what appeared... Read More about Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World.

Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth. Twentieth-century China, 44(2), 253-258. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0023

Although May Fourth has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention for decades, its contours and periodization remain blurred and contested. This article suggests that the significance of May Fourth resides in the ways in which it establ... Read More about Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth.