Recent readings XXII

T. H. Barrett with Antonello Palumbo, "The mystery of the precious seal of the ruler and the origins of printing," Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2007, pp. 115-30. It may be that in future Daoist materials will prove to contain more useful materials for linking the use of seals to early printing.

Dŭsica Ristivojevic, "They Are Just like the Generations Past: Images of Chinese Women in the Women's Missionary Periodical Woman's Work in China (1884-1885)," Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008, pp. 143-161.

Due to accessibility problem, Ristivojevic focuses on only four issues of Woman's Work in China (vol. 7(2), 8(1)-(2), 9(1), 1884-5), which was published by Kelly & Walsh? "Chinese and non-Chinese sinologists, in and out of China, in my view should not be unselectively criticized for using the term 'Westerners' as if that is a matter of negligence, oversimplication, and essentailization." (p. 144)

Four constructions of Chinese women: (1) despicable Chinese women who had shown no interest in complying with the Christian religion; (2) Chinese schoolgirls and women-students going through a process of conversion who are portrayed as having been risen from the depths of spiritual, mental and moral darkness, but are seen as constantly in danger of regressing to their degrading non-Christian tradition; (3) Chinese Christian women who are represented as a highly positive mirror image of Western men; and (4) upper-class Chinese women beyond the reach of women missionaries' but occupying a specific place, in the created imaginary, where the liberty of their converted/convertible lower-class sisters is deprived of and indulging in opium consumption.

When foreign advisers such as Edwin Dun came to Japan, they brought much more than their expertise: They brought deeply rooted opinions about the promise of modernization that, when integrated into the Japanese education system, work place, political values, and attitudes about the natural world, laid the foundation on which the modern Japanese nation would be built. political, social, and cultural values and attitudes about the natural world.

Source: Brett L. Walker's "Meiji modernization, Scientific agriculture, and the destruction of Japan's Hokkaido wolf," Environmental History, Vol. 9, No. 2, Apr 2004, pp. 248-74.

B. Luyt, "Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Geopolitics in the Development of the Singapore National Library," Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2009.

D. G. Davis, Jr., "International Trends in Library History," Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2010.

L. M. Han, "The Beginning and Development of the Raffles Library in Singapore, 1823-1941: A Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century British Colonial Enclave," Library & Information History, Vol. 25, No. 3, Sep 2009.

T. Weller, "An Information History Decade: A Review of the Literature and Concepts, 2000-2009," Library & Information History, Vol. 26, No. 1, Mar 2010.

Gabriel M. Wilner, "The Mixed Courts of Egypt: A Study of The Use of Natural Law and Equity," Scholarly Works, Paper 210, 1975. For future use