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In the mid-1950s, when I was a graduate student of Chinese history, the Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was invariably condemned as a reactionary hate figure; Mao Zedong was admired. In the textbooks of that time, leading American scholars characterized Cixi as cruel, imperious, and opposed to the Westernizing reforms championed by progressive officials, all of whom
There is no such place as Manchuria, but the word still resonates like a bell struck a century before. The region is now more prosaically called dongbei the northeast yet its contemporary toponyms sing of its imperial past, when it was the homeland of the Manchu, China’s last dynastic rulers: White Banner township, Princess Tomb City, and a river named Scaly Dragon, for the
A few weeks after Jonathan Spence, the celebrated historian of China, died at Christmas, ChinaFile began collecting reminiscences from his classmates, doctoral students, and colleagues spanning the five decades of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and author.