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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 1. Governor-General Kodama Gentarō, summer, 1899. Source: Shashin kurabu ( 1901 ). Courtesy of National Taiwan Library.
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Figure 4. Opening portrait gallery of Governor-General Kodama Gentarō (top center) and his civil officials. Source: Taiwan meisho shashinchō ( 1899 ). Courtesy of National Taiwan Library.
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Figure 10. Portraits of colonial leaders: Civil Administrator Gotō Shimpei, Governor-General Kodama Gentarō, Taihoku District Chief Kinoshita Shū'ichi, and Taichū District Chief Murakami Giyū; by photographers Endo, Asai, Era, Nakashima (clockwise from upper left). Source: Shashin kurabu
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in Nationalist China's “Great Game”: Leveraging Foreign Explorers in Xinjiang, 1927–1935
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 2. Jin Shuren, governor of Xinjiang, c. 1928. From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography, Sven Hedin Foundation. Used with permission.
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in Nationalist China's “Great Game”: Leveraging Foreign Explorers in Xinjiang, 1927–1935
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 3. Swedish explorer Sven Hedin with Sheng Shicai, military governor ( duban ) of Xinjiang, c. 1934. From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography, Sven Hedin Foundation. Used with permission.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 702–703.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Susan D. Russell The White Apos: American Governors on the Cordillera Central . By Frank Lawrence Jenista . Quezon City, Phils. : New Day Publishers , 1987 . xii, 321 pp. $ 14.00 (paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.) Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 806–808.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Mark C. Elliott Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796 . By R. Kent Guy . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2010 . 512 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Ishtiaq Ahmed Punjab Politics, 1936–1939: The Start of Provincial Autonomy; Governors' Fortnightly Reports and Other Key Documents . Complied and edited by Lionel Carter . New Delhi : Manohar , 2004 . 443 pp. Rs 995 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 220...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (3): 289–306.
Published: 01 May 1960
...Donald G. Gillin Abstract In the years that followed the overthrow of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911, China was ruled by military men who set up virtually independent governments in the various provinces. This inquiry into the policies of Yen Hsi-shan, governor of die north-western province of Shansi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 689–715.
Published: 01 May 1975
... of a heavily garrisoned provincial capital. Rioters put the torch to the governor's yamen, foreign property and government offices and looted over one hundred rice shops. In outlying districts secret societies made spasmodic attempts to incite a general uprising against the dynasty. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 1995
...William C. Kirby Abstract On April 22, 1903, the qing court ordered zai-zhen, a Manchu prince; Yuan Shikai, the most powerful Chinese Governor-General of the realm; and Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, to compile a commercial code. The edict charging them...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 967–1005.
Published: 01 November 1997
... not be exhausted in the space of a few years?” (Xu n.d., 1:26a). Yin Huiyi (1691–1748), who served as Henan governor from 1737 to 1739, stated that avoiding corruption should be the primary goal of any provincial official. “An official who has been appointed to a post should, first and foremost, remain pure,” he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 940–960.
Published: 01 November 1999
... name “a household word in England. He received £70,000 as his share of the spoils” (Mehra 1985, 496–97) and was knighted. In 1851 he quarrelled with James Ramsey, the Marquess of Dalhousie (governor general of India from 1847 to 1856), and left India. In 1844, the following item appeared in a British...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 739–762.
Published: 01 August 1968
...Harry J. Lamley Abstract On May 25, 1895, amid a festive atmosphere at the governor's yamen in Taipei, China's island province of Taiwan (Formosa) was declared a republic. News of this extraordinary event was received in Peking and elsewhere with reactions of dismay and skepticism. Most Ch'ing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 521–528.
Published: 01 May 1985
... upon social life and public affairs is a priceless source for historical investigation. His diaries and journals which span a period of forty years, can be compared with those of Ananda Ranga Pillai, the astute agent ( dubash ) of Joseph-François Dupleix, the French governor of Pondicherry whose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 February 1970
... and careers of a 25% random sample of all prefectural governors between 1868–1945 clearly indicates that by 1900 the norms of the bureaucratic role had changed drastically. From a role based on extra-bureaucratic norms—participation in the Restoration, possession of some Western knowledge and membership...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 863–881.
Published: 01 August 1970
... established the monthon as a supra-provincial unit headed by an appointed official from the central government bureaucracy, and within a few years was able to replace the old-style hereditary governors with appointed officials changed at frequent intervals. The elite families of the different regions appear...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (3): 405–423.
Published: 01 May 1973
.... The Peiyang was the first Chinese army to be comparatively modern in training and discipline as well as in weaponry. Formed for the most part by Yuan Shih-k'ai while he was governor-general of Chihli province from 1901 to 1907, the Peiyang Army grew to six divisions of about 10,000 men each. Size alone gave...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 477–497.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Edward I-te Chen Abstract During much of the period under discussion Formosa was ruled by civilian governors-general who tolerated limited political activities to induce native cooperation. Formosans, however, wanted to use their organizations to obtain political concessions. The Assimilation...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (4): 348–363.
Published: 01 August 1942
..., he made it clear that the Russian's motive for casting slurs on the Frenchmen was largely due to his jealousy at their having gone so far into the interior, where he himself had been unable to go. Finally, in 1900, Henri Cordier published some diplomatic correspondence between Ch'i-ying, the governor...
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