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'Stranger within the Gates': knowing semi-colonial Siam as extraterritorials

Article Abstract:

The issue of Siam as a semi-feudal, semi-colonial social formation is set aside for its inability to provide a lineage for the strain of capitalist mode of production. The Siam's semi-colonial condition is examined from the angle of social relations between the westerners.

Political reform, Colonialism

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Training scholars not politicians: Zunjing academy and the introduction of Han learning to Sichuan in the late nineteenth century

Article Abstract:

The establishment of the Zunjing, an academy of Old Text classical learning and spread of Han Learning in the nineteenth is explained. The scholars of modern Chinese intellectual history are interested in the influences of politics among Chinese literati.

Study and teaching, Chinese literature, Educational aspects, Han (Chinese people)

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The search for Chinese Christianity in the republican period (1912-1949)

Article Abstract:

A report on search for Chinese Christianity in the republican period has been submitted. The search for Chinese Christians proceeded in two different settings-within the missionary enterprise and among independent, often sectarian, indigenous groups.

Christianity

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