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Our modern-day fascination with China derives in large part from its recent rise as a modernised global power. Indeed, such terms as ‘the rise of China’ or ‘modern China’ are almost ubiquitous if one lives in today’s West. Perhaps as a result of this new public interest, increasing numbers of academics have been attracted to research China and its modernity.
Our modern-day fascination with China derives in large part from its recent rise as a modernised global power. Indeed, such terms as ‘the rise of China’ or ‘modern China’ are almost ubiquitous...
To any seasoned historian, the seventeen journals presented in digitised form by Gale, a Cengage Company embody a long-cherished dream come true. The digital collection represents the near-totality of journals produced in the English medium in China between 1817 and 1949, not counting ephemeral publications or daily newspapers.
Thematically, the seventeen journals contained in this collection can be subdivided into three different categories, namely journals preoccupied with missionary information and a missiological discourse; publications...
Relations between Britain and China, whilst increasingly fraught throughout the nineteenth century, generated both intense animosity and commodity desirability. A British desire to have agency in China and China's sustained independence proved to be highly problematic.
A collection of digitised archives containing monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence, photos, ephemera, and other kinds of historical documents.
View samples from a selection of highlights featured in Imperial China and the West, Part I, part of Gale Primary Sources.
"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
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圣智学习集团旗下的Gale公司致力于把英国大英图书馆收藏的印度事务部档案(India Office Records) 中有关中国的部分数字化，以便更好地促进中国近代历史研究。这些资料是英属印度时期英帝国在中国西南边疆、西北边疆等边疆地区活动的历史记载，反映出中国近代民族国家建构过程中外部的历史环境及其对近代中国形成的影响。
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Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for To Live and Brothers.
A range of digitised archives offering targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in research, supporting research in Asian studies.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Red Sorghum and Frog.
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Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for A Leaf in the Storm and Moment in Peking.