Xiaoqun Xu's Books

Heaven Has Eyes

A History of Chinese Law

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history, addressing both criminal and civil justice. This book fills this void. Xiaoqun Xu addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices throughout China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to modern ones in the twentieth century. To the Chinese of the imperial era, justice was an alignment of heavenly reason (tianli), state law (guofa), and human relations (renqing). Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century, when Western-derived notions-natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong. The legal-judicial reform agendas that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century (and are still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things, and the past century was fraught with legal dramas and tragedies. Heaven Has Eyes lays out how and why that is the case.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190060050

ISBN 13

9780190060053

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieu. This 2001 book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history. The professional associations were, as the author writes, 'unambiguously urban and modern in their origins and functions ... representing a new breed of educated Chinese' and they pioneered a new type of relationship with the state. Xu addresses a central issue in China studies, the relationship between state and society, and proposes an alternative to the Western-derived concept of civil society. This book illuminates the complexity of modernization and nationalism in twentieth-century China, and provides a concrete case for comparative studies of professionalization and class formation across cultures.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139431846

ISBN 13

9781139431842

Heaven Has Eyes

A History of Chinese Law

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Heaven Has Eyes

A History of Chinese Law

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190060050

ISBN 13

9780190060053

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918–1928

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918–1928

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China analyzes important aspects of Chinese intellectual life and cultural practices that formed and informed the historical phenomenon known as the New Culture era. Through examining an influential newspaper supplement published in Beijing during 1918–1928, along with other contemporary sources, the book explores the full dimensions and rich textures of the intellectual-literary discourses of the time period and contributes to a re-consideration and re-appreciation of the New Culture phenomenon in modern China. It highlights a key intellectual-moral paradox in Chinese discourses between cosmopolitanism as an idealistic aspiration and nationalism as a practical imperative, both in complex relationship to individualism, a paradox that ultimately speaks to the constant negotiations between Chinese tradition and Western culture in the making of Chinese modernity. These issues have remained vitally relevant to China and the world nearly a century later.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0739189158

ISBN 13

9780739189153

The Measurement of Media Reputation

By: Xiaoqun Zhang

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Measurement of Media Reputation

By: Xiaoqun Zhang

The Measurement of Media Reputation investigates the efficacy of different measurements of media reputation, the overall evaluation of the media coverage of a corporation and a strategic resource used to improve media coverage. Xiaoqun Zhang develops a new composite measure that combines three dimensions of media coverage: visibility, favorability, and recency. Zhang conducts multiple tests comparing the validity of his new composite measure against existing measures of media coverage, arguing that the new measure has both theoretical implications for extending the application of media effects theories to other realms, such as political and business communication, and practical implications as a resource for corporations to achieve competitive advantages.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

163

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498573002

ISBN 13

9781498573009

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139431846

ISBN 13

9781139431842

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918–1928

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918–1928

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0739189158

ISBN 13

9780739189153

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937

By: Xiaoqun Xu

Xu makes a compelling, original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China. This book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Published Date

ISBN 10

128015909X

ISBN 13

9781280159091

One Law for All?

Western models and local practices in (post-) imperial contexts

By: Stefan B. Kirmse

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One Law for All?

Western models and local practices in (post-) imperial contexts

By: Stefan B. Kirmse

Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert traten weltweit Gesetzgeber mit der Absicht auf, lokale Rechtsordnungen nach westlichem Muster umzubilden. Aber welche Modelle sollten als Vorbilder dienen, da doch die rechtliche Realität bereits in Westeuropa uneinheitlich war? Zudem wurde das importierte Recht vor Ort unterschiedlich aufgenommen, umformuliert und interpretiert. Der Band untersucht das Spannungsfeld zwischen den universellen Ansprüchen verschiedener imperialer und post-imperialer Gesetzgeber und der lokalen Umsetzung und Anwendung neuer Rechtsformen, von Lateinamerika und Afrika über Russland bis nach Ostasien.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

Campus Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3593412322

ISBN 13

9783593412320

Book's by Xiaoqun Xu

Heaven Has Eyes

Heaven Has Eyes

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

Heaven Has Eyes

Heaven Has Eyes

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

The Measurement of Media Reputation

The Measurement of Media Reputation

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937

Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: the Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937

One Law for All?

One Law for All?

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email