Hero and Villain: Historical Narratives of Zhao Erfeng in the Early Republic
| Autor: | Joohee Suh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Literature
Cultural Studies History business.industry Modernity media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Biography Historiography Gender studies 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Martyr Frontier Portrait State (polity) Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration HERO business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Twentieth-Century China. 41:110-135 |
| ISSN: | 1940-5065 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/tcc.2016.0009 |
| Popis: | Zhao Erfeng (1845–1911), the Qing governor-general of Sichuan province in 1911, died immediately after the successful revolutionary uprising in Chengdu. This article examines three biographical narratives of Zhao produced during the 1910s. The three different portraits of Zhao in the biographies—Zhao as racial traitor, loyal martyr, and modernizer—reveal radically different ways in which the Qing–Republican transition was understood in the early Republic. Focused on the two major issues associated with Zhao, the Qing incorporation of the Sino-Tibetan frontier and the railway-protection movement in Sichuan, the following discussion utilizes Zhao's biographies as windows on the unsettled definitions of the 1911 Revolution, revealing how Chinese negotiated the issues of nation, territory, and modernity at the birth of a modern state. |
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