Imagining the End: Visions of
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(Honolulu, ). Stanford University Press reissued one of the best of the books of this period, Thomas Meadows, The Chinese and Their Rebellions , in
. . On the Chinese literature, see Weller, ‘Historians and Consciousness’; and Teng Ssu-yu, Historiography of the Taiping Rebellion (Cambridge, MA, ).
. The indigenous inhabitants of Taiwan are not Chinese, but rather a people of Micro- nesian origin. The majority of the Chinese population on Taiwan migrated from mainland Fujian and Guangdong in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and quickly came to out- number the indigenous groups. The native tongues of these Chinese migrants include a number of Fujianese, Cantonese and Hakka dialects. By ‘Taiwanese’ I refer to this group. Mainlanders, who followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan in the late s, speak Mandarin, in addition to the local dialects of their native places. Relations between mainlanders and Taiwanese have been tense.
. See the English-language version of one of Jen’s important works, The Taiping Revolu- tionary Movement (New Haven, CT, ), and the review of one of his major Chinese works ( Taiping tianguo dianzhi tongkao ) by Hsiao Kong-ch'uan, in Journal of Asian Studies
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– . . This list could be expanded, but the subsequent review might well become exceedingly technical. . Michael, The Taiping Rebellion , p.
. . The locus classicus for the thesis that Hong was mentally ill is P. M. Yap, ‘The Mental Illness of Hung Hsiu-ch’uan, Leader of the Taiping Rebellion’,
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. . Kuhn, ‘The Taiping Rebellion’, p. . . On Fairbank, Kuhn, and the nature of American historiography of China, see Paul A. Cohen,
Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (New York, ).
. This argument is found both in Kuhn, ‘The Taiping Rebellion’, pp.
ff., and Kuhn, Notes to Chapter 13 388 ‘Origins of the Taiping Vision: Cross-cultural Dimensions of a Chinese Rebellion’, Journal of the American Oriental Society , no. (New Haven, CT, ). The quote is from ‘The Taiping Rebellion’, p.
. . Kuhn, ‘Origins of the Taiping Vision’, p. . . Robert Weller had already written Yüklə 4,01 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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