China, 1898-1912 : : The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan / / Douglas R. Reynolds.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 160
• VerfasserIn: Reynolds, Douglas Robertson, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 1993.; Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 160.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The author argues that that the political end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the late-Qing government's own Xinzheng or "new systems" reforms.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Conventions
• Preface: The Making of an Idea
• Introduction (starting p. 1)
• 1 A Golden Decade? A Xinzheng Revolution? (starting p. 5)
• Pt. 1 The Japanese Role and Its Background (starting p. 15)
• 2 Prelude to the Golden Decade (starting p. 17)
• 3 Japan's Double-Pronged Strategy: Military and Non-Military (starting p. 24)
• Pt. 2 The Xinzheng Intellectual Revolution: New Carriers, New Concepts (starting p. 39)
• 4 Chinese Students and Their Schools in Japan (starting p. 41)
• 5 Japanese Teachers and Advisers in China (starting p. 65)
• Japanese Educational Initiatives in China
• Beijing Dongwen Xueshe under Nakajima Saishi, 1901-1906
• Leading Teachers and Advisers during China's "Age of the Japanese Teacher"
• Contract Terms and Teaching Conditions
• The Language Barrier and Japanese-Language Instruction
• Sino-Japanese Cooperation in Education
• The Japanese Teachers at San-Jiang Normal School in Nanjing
• China's New Normal Schools in the "Age of the Japanese Teacher"
• Why Not Westerners?...and the Factor of Christianity
• Not a "Failure"
• 6 Translations and Modern Terminology (starting p. 111)
• Gearing Up to the Task
• Textbooks and Encyclopedias
• Publishing and the Commercial Press (Shangwu Yinshu Guan)
• The Translators: Brokers of Modernity
• Modern Terminology: From Japanese into Chinese
• Pt. 3 The Xinzheng Institutional Revolution: New Leaders, New Directions (starting p. 127)
• 7 Chinese Educational Reforms: The Japanese Model (starting p. 131)
• Training "Men of Real Talent"
• The Special Impact of Study Missions
• Tongwen and Ti-yong: The Viability of Conservative Reform
• Abolition of the Examination System
• 8 Chinese Military Modernization and Japan (starting p. 151)
• 9 China's New Police and Prison Systems (starting p. 161)
• 10 Chinese Legal, Judicial, and Constitutional Reforms (starting p. 179)
• Conclusion (starting p. 193)
• Interpreting the Late-Qing Revolution (starting p. 193)
• Japan: The Missing Key (starting p. 194)
• Directions for Future Research (starting p. 196)
• Appendix: The Reform Edict (starting p. 201)
• Notes (starting p. 205)
• References (starting p. 259)
• Glossary-Index (starting p. 279)