Resources are arranged alphabetically by title.
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Annual Reports of the Religious Tract Society for China
Yale Digital CollectionsReports from 1921-1940.
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Advertising Consumer Culture in 1930s Shanghai: Globalization and Localization in Yuefenpai
Xin Zhao and Russell W. BelkChina's current experiences with globalism, localism, and advertising can be informed by a consideration of earlier encounters with these forces in Shanghai of the 1930s. In this paper, we examine a popular advertising medium of the time: the poster ad, or yuefenpai. These ads are analyzed semiotically, with a focus on the different ways in which the global transformed and was transformed by traditional Chinese culture in Old Shanghai. Implications for the role of advertising in transforming society are also discussed.
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Advertising in 1920s Shanghai: Globalization and Localization in the World of Calendar Advertising
Xin Zhao & Russell W. BelkIn this paper, a unique form of advertising, commercial calendars, are chosen for the semiotic analysis from a pool of over 150 pieces (more than 10% of those left today in the world).
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Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China
Eugenio MenegonChristianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity’s foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. Eugenio Menegon uncovers another story. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one over the course of the next three centuries.
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Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History, and State-Building
Zhou YongmingThis book is the first comprehensive study of anti-drug crusades in twentieth-century China. Zhou Yongming addresses the complexity of anti-drug campaigns by examining how modern Chinese nationalism and the needs of state building have shaped the ways in which these campaigns have been carried out.
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Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930
Li JiThis dissertation explores how specific actors such as French Catholic missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) translated and disseminated the universality of the Christian message into the particular context of northeast China from the 1830s to the 1930s, and how Chinese Catholic converts, especially, female converts, interpreted and transformed the Catholic faith as a language to articulate an awareness of self.