...On-cho Ng Hu's revisionist study sheds new light on the innovativeness of Dai Zhen's learning and thinking, enriching our understanding of the scientific and technical dimensions of kaozheng scholarship. Yet, Hu's prospective view that such innovativeness adumbrates China's transition...

...Tsung-Cheng Lin The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806–1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity . By Jerry D. Schmidt . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xxviii, 720 pp. $273.00 (cloth, ISBN 9789004249783 ); $273.00 (e-book, ISBN 9789004252295 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015...

... to modern class divisions and economic exploitation as well as traditional culture. They discussed the relationships among feminism, individual rights, and political liberties. He Zhen in particular severed feminism from nationalism, proclaiming “women's liberation” not “for the sake of the nation” but out...

..., Inc. 2014  2014 It is hard to predict how this project of enabling global circulation of Chinese feminist analytical categories may actually move transnational feminist theorization onto a new level. What is certain is that the editors' sophisticated elaboration of He-Ying Zhen's theoretical...

...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...

... and intellectual tensions involved in that relationship. Kohn's focus is the Xiaodao lun, a polemical tract completed in 570 by Zhen Luan, an anti-Taoist official at the Northern Zhou court. The text is preserved in the Buddhist canon, but Kohn's sound analysis reveals that Zhen was not a Buddhist apologist...