Diaspora Charity and Welfare Sovereignty in the Chinese Republic: Shanghai Charity Innovator William Yinson Lee (Li Yuanxin, 1884–1965)
| Autor: | Mei-fen Kuo, John Fitzgerald |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
History Civil society Pacific Rim media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Social Welfare 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Diaspora Politics Sovereignty Economy Political economy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Sociology China Welfare media_common |
| Zdroj: | Twentieth-Century China. 42:72-96 |
| ISSN: | 1940-5065 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/tcc.2017.0008 |
| Popis: | William Yinson Lee (Li Yuanxin), an influential charity innovator, introduced many modern fund-raising techniques into Shanghai from the 1920s to the 1940s, a time of growing foreign intervention in charitable services to China’s poor and disadvantaged. From the late nineteenth century, foreign charities and humanitarian agencies had drawn attention to inequality and injustice in China and tried to remedy them through charitable investments in education, health, and social welfare. These efforts were welcome as substantial support to the needy but unwelcome in drawing international attention to China’s failure to care for its own. Underlying ambivalence toward foreign charities was reflected in efforts to recover China’s welfare sovereignty by Chinese emigres returning to China from Anglophone settlements around the Pacific Rim. For Lee and his associates in Shanghai, charity served as an entree into elite social and political circles and as a medium for cross-cultural negotiations, for participating actively in civic life, for promoting trans-Pacific trade, and for recovering welfare sovereignty for modern China. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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