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Saintly Brokers: Uyghur Muslims, Trade, and the Making of Qing Central Asia, 1696-1814. By KWANGMIN KIM. University of California, Berkeley, 2008. 485 pp. Primary Advisors: Wen-hsin Yeh, Yuri Slezkine, and Patricia Berger. Kwangmin Kim’s dissertation is a significant contribution to … Continue reading
International and Wartime Origins of the Propaganda State: The Motion Picture in China, 1897-1955. By MATTHEW DAVID JOHNSON. University of California, San Diego, 2008. 485 pp. Primary Advisors: Joseph W. Esherick and Paul G. Pickowicz. Last autumn, the 60th anniversary … Continue reading
Stretching the Skin of the Nation: Chinese Intellectuals, the State, and the Frontiers in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). By Zhihong Chen. University of Oregon, 2008. 304 pp. Primary Advisor: Bryna Goodman. In Stretching the Skin of the Nation, Zhihong Chen … Continue reading
Gu Hongming and the Re-invention of Chinese Civilization. By CHUNMEI DU. Princeton University, 2009. 293 pp. Primary Advisor: Benjamin Elman. This dissertation illuminates the life and thought of Gu Hongming (辜鸿铭 1857-1928), a cosmopolitan scholar of the late Qing and … Continue reading