Alexander Woodside

Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China

Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Being a Man: 1. Home 2. Politics 3. First things 4. Study Part II. Creating Prosperity: 5. Food 6. Economics 7. Production 8. Accumulation Part III. Ordering the World: 9. People 10. Governance 11. Community 12. Civilization Conclusion Notes References Character List Index.

Education and society in late imperial China, 1600-1900

CONTRIBUTORS: Allan Barr Cynthia J. Brokaw Wejen Chang Kai-wing Chow Pamela Kyle Crossley Benjamin A. Elman R. Kent Guy Catherine Jami Barry Keenan Angela Ki Che Leung Kwang-Ching Liu Susan Mann William T. Rowe Alexander Woodside

Some Mid-Qing Theorists of Popular Schools: Their Innovations, Inhibitions, and Attitudes Toward the Poor

Does the modern Chinese educational revolution, with its sometimes bewildering diversity of forms, build upon ancient foundations? Or is it creative precisely because it is uninhibited by any very obtrusive past? The discussion of the nature of the popular schools in late imperial China&dquo;community schools&dquo; (shexue) as they were largely known in Ming China, &dquo;charitable schools&dquo; (yixue) as they were more commonly known in the Qing period-has always generated extravagant claims. One is reminded of the way in which the petites éco/es of the feudal

Reconciling the Chinese and Western Theory Worlds in an Era of Western Development Fatigue (A Comment

Not very long ago, the Fudan University Economics Institute and the Shanghai bonds and securities journal jointly held a conference on the development of Chinese economics, to which eminent Beijing economic thinkers such as Yu Guangyuan also came. One of the conferences topics was whether Western economics theory could be applied to China at all. All schools of Western economics, including the Marxist ones, seemed preoccupied after all with the study of market economies, yet there was no clear family resemblance between this category and China. Some conference participants argued that the Chinese would have to develop their own economic theory. Other participants shrank from this, preferring the position that Western economic theory was still one of the treasures of human development, even if most of its practitioners criticized Marxist theory without knowing anything about it. For them the answer remained of learning how to apply Western theory most appropriately to Chinese circumstances.

Review Essay : History, Ideology, and Foreign Policy: A Review of Some Recent Western Works on Chinese Relations with Southeast Asia

No interstate relationships in the world-or the controversies they breed in the states that sustain them-seem more unpredictable and paradoxical to Western eyes than the relationships which exist between China and her Southwest Asian neighbors. Less than fifteen years ago the prime minister of Malaysia, the Tunku Abdul Rahman, talked of China’s &dquo;subjugation&dquo; of Tibet; approved American intervention in Vietnam; and even initiated a &dquo;Save Democracy Fund&dquo; in Malaysia which raised more than one million dollars to help India defend itself against Chinese &dquo;aggression&dquo; in the Sino-Indian border war. But in June 1974 his successor as Malaysian leader, Tun Abdul Razak, visited Beijing and there denounced, in concert with his Chinese colleagues, the possibilities of American or Russian &dquo;hegemonialism&dquo; in Southeast Asia. In the early 1960s a distinguished Filipino diplomat and Christian socialist explained to an American

Decolonization and Agricultural Reform in Northern Vietnam

Agrarian modernization, and the greater diffusion of economic innovations in the countryside, have often been understood to depend in part upon the improvement of rural organization and of village associational life. Villages with a greater number of formal organizations, it has been argued, are more likely to have agricultural change programs, particularly if these organizations can break down the relative isolation of the peasants, link them more closely to change elsewhere in their societies, and encourage the concentration of rural resources that might otherwise be fragmented and used ineffectively. This hypothesis may or may not be entirely true historically. There are many kinds of rural associations. But one important background factor in the attempted regeneration of rural Vietnam since 1954 should not be overlooked. Compared to culturally related societies like China and Japan, Vietnam in the colonial period before 1954 suffered from an unusually low level of organized collaboration in agricultural change.