Overseas Returnees from Late Qing to Early Republic of China—Impacts on Literature

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(清末民初海归对文学的贡献) 8 min read From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the transition from the Late Qing Dynasty to the Early Republic of China marked a watershed moment in modern Chinese history. Long-standing imperial institutions were increasingly exposed and threatened by Western military power, political systems, and cultural values. In response, a generation […]

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Sages from the West: the Story of Matteo Ricci and His Fellow Jesuits

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(利玛窦: 促进西学东渐的第一人) 6 min read In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuits—members of the Catholic Church’s Society of Jesus—first attempted to establish a mission in China. In 1552, St. Francis Xavier reached Shangchuan Island (上川岛), off China’s southern coast near Macau (澳门). That same year marked both the death of Francis Xavier and a turning point for

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Yan Fu: At the Crossroad of East and West in the Early 20th Century

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(严复: 20世纪初中国与西方的对话者) 4 min read   Modern China’s “age of awakening,” spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a painful reckoning for Chinese intellectuals as they confronted the country’s rapid decline in the face of Western imperial powers. Yan Fu (严复, 1854—1921), one of the most influential thinkers of this era, was the

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