Phony Reformer
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Chinese foreign relations
Chinese History
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History of China
modern China
novel
Qing China
Sino-foreign relations
text
textbook
translation
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- ISBN 9781538112397
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 162 x 243mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through a contemporary's eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the tide of the Qing court's post-Boxer reform initiatives to career success and personal wealth, this satire conveys the author's hope for a new, improved China, one that could stand proudly alongside Western nations and Meiji Japan in the modern world. His vivid descriptions of various situations shed light on late Qing elite behavior and Chinese foreign relations capture the clash between tradition and modernity, the old and new, as educated Chinese stood at a cultural and political crossroads.
Luke S. K. Kwong is professor emeritus of history at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. His books include A Mosaic of the Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of 1898 and
T’an Ssu-t’ung, 1865–1898: Life and Thought of a Reformer.
