Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign
interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries,
adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as
well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of
foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the
dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese
victim, and moves beyond the depiction of foreigners as privileged
and the Chinese as simply weak. The spaces and relationships
examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of
interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go
far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. Indeed, this book
examines how diverse and sometimes seemingly peripheral foreign
individuals and communities influenced literature, education,
trade, sexual morality, warfare, and architecture in China and in
the process were themselves profoundly changed, in ways that are as
remarkable as those experienced by the Chinese they had come to
observe, meet, exploit, conquer, assist, or change. Bringing
together the work of a diverse group of scholars on Republican
China, this edited volume adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary
approach to the study of foreigners in China, and utilises the
perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies,
sociology, anthropology, and political science. As such, this
interesting and innovative book will be of great interest to
students and scholars from diverse fields including Chinese and
global history, politics and international relations, Chinese
studies, literary studies and gender studies.
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