2. Robert Culp, Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in
Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) …

[xii] PREFACE ordered my family to march in a line according to height—it simply followed
that, as the smallest, I was of course also first. There we were: a toddler at the helm, leading …

Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly
developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and …

This article examines the significance of reflexive self-critical modernity in the development
of early “New Confucianism” by reconsidering the example of Zhang Junmai in the context of …

Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative
approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history …

Dreams of a return to a golden age in remote antiquity were common tropes in imperial
Chinese philosophy, literature and art. But such yearnings could also relate to the more …

This article studies the multifaceted interactions between a Beijing-based art dealer Huo
Mingzhi (霍明志, 1880-?) and the Euro-American art market in the early twentieth century. By …

This chapter outlines the potential of the concept of asymmetry as an analytical tool for the
study of transcultural interaction. It presents a theoretical outline, which serves the function of …

Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian
philosophy in Republican China (1912–1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm …

In recent decades a large body of scholarship on the first half of twentieth-century China has
successfully shown the ways in which history and historiography had been constructed at …