Monday 29 November 2010

Recent readings XVIII

程光煒:〈從夏氏兄弟到李歐梵、王德威--美國「中國現代文學研究」與現當代文學〉,《中國現代文學》,第15期(2009年6月),頁127-150。
王德威:〈「新中國未來記」--21世紀版陳冠中的《盛世》〉,《中國現代文學》,第16期(2009年12月),頁1-12。
Michela Bussotti 米蓋拉, "Editions of Biographies of Women as Examples of Printed Illustrations from the Ming Dynasty," 明代坊刻古籍版畫--以《列女傳》版本為例, Chinese Studies 漢學研究, Volume 28, No. 2, Jun 2010, pp. 169-224.
馬雅貞:〈商人社群與地方社會的交融--從清代蘇州版畫看地方商業文化〉,《漢學研究》,第28卷第2期(2010年6月),頁87-126。
樊學慶:〈「剪髮易服」與晚清立憲困局(1909-1910)〉,《中央研究院近代史研究所集刊》,第69期(2010年9月),頁41-78。
陳弱水:〈臺大歷史系與現代中國史學傳統〉,《臺大歷史學報》,第45期(2010年6月),頁117-154。第一代赴臺任教的中國歷史學者,皆出身世家,留學歐美。徐子明(1888-1972),江蘇宜興人,出身世家。1908年美國威斯康辛大學就學,畢業後赴德國海德堡大學攻讀中古史,1913年獲博士學位,回國任教於北京大學。姚從吾(1894-1970),河南襄城人,出身望族。1923年留學德國,繼而任教,1934年始回國,任教於北大。李宗侗(1895-1974),河北高陽人,出身高門。1916年入巴黎大學,先學化學,後轉西洋古史,1924年返國任職於北大法文系。沈剛伯(1898-1977),湖北宜昌人,家世應不錯。1924年獲官費往英國倫敦大學攻讀埃及學和英國史,1927年歸國任教於國立武漢大學。劉崇鋐(1897-1990),福建閩侯人,門第顥赫。1918年走美國威斯康辛大學,學習西洋史,畢業後走哈佛大學,獲得碩士,再轉往哥倫比亞大學和耶魯大學,研究歐洲史和美國史。1923年回國,任教於南開大學。第二代留學歐美者有張貴永(1908-1965),浙江鄞縣人。1929年清華畢業,1930年留學德國,1933年獲柏林大學博士學位,轉赴英國研究,1934年歸國任教於中央大學。李定一(1919-2002),四川銅梁人。1942年畢業於西南聯大,中日戰爭後留學英國政經學院。

Gregory A. Barton & Brett M. Bennett, "Forestry as Foreign Policy: Anglo-Siamese Relations and the Origins of Britain's Informal Empire in the Teak Forests of Northern Siam, 1883-1925,"Itinerario, Vol. 34, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 65-86. forest officer in colonial HK?
Adam Clulow, "European Maritime Violence and Territorial States in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1650," Itinerario, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2009, pp. 72-94. VOC, EIC, Mughal India, and Tokugawa Japan.
Lissa Roberts, "Situating Science in Global History: Local Exchanges and Networks of Circulation," Itinerario, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009, pp. 9-30.
Elizabeth Green Musselman, "Indigenous Knowledge and Contact Zones: The Case of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorite, Cape Colony, 1838," Itinerario, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009, pp. 31-44.
Antonella Romano and Stéphane van Damme, "Science and World Cities: Thinking Urban Knowledge and Science at Large (16th-18th Century)," Itinerario, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009, pp. 79-95.
Portia L. Reyes, "Eyes on a Prize: Colonial Fantasies, the German Self and Newspaper Accounts of the 1896 Philippine Revolution," Itinerario, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2008, pp. 105-133.

Barbara Meisterernst, "The Syntax of hou 後 in Temporal Phrases in Han Period Chinese," The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, Vol. 20, No. 4 (2010), pp. 503-533.
Laura Hein, "Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan," The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 3 (August) 2010, pp. 821-841. 脇村義太郎
Ewout Frankema, "Raising revenue in the British empire, 1870-1940: how 'extractive' were colonial taxes?" Journal of Global History, Vol. 5, 2010, pp. 447-477.

Isobel Armstrong, Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 (OUP, 2008). Although glass is 'an antithetical material' (p. 11), it was central to Victorian culture. Glass was everywhere, from windows, mirrors and greenhouses to telescopes, cameras and so on. Armstrong sees 'a period through glass'.

Jacqueline Young's 'Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse, and Charles Welsh Mason,' Victorian Newsletter, Vol. 114, 2008, pp. 7-28. Young examines Weale's edited Indiscreet Letters from Peking (9th ed., 1906) and his Wang the Ningh: The Story of a Chinese Boy (1920), Bland and Backhouse's China Under the Empress Dowager (1912), and, last but not least, Mason's The Chinese Confession of Charles Welsh Mason(1924).

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