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Lecture: Federico Brusadelli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”: Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
Lecture: Federico Brusadelli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”: Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
Image: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0), https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd Abstract This talk will look at how the concept of zizhi 自治 (self-government) was (re) articulated in late imperial and early republican China (1898-1928), either to strengthen and “modernize” the Manchu Empire or to build federal/republican counternarratives to the […]