Faith and war eyewitnesses to the Japanese invasion of China: Quebec's Jesuit priests
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The challenges faced by the Quebec missionary priests by the invasion of the Japanese imperial army into north China and their efforts to protect the Chinese from the Japanese troops within the tradition of their faith and their native province is described. The devout, pietistic world of Quebec Catholicism has withered away and is replaced by a secular, nationalist world.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2005
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The making of a dream: the Sino-American expedition to Mount Amne Machin in 1948
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The dynamics of nongovernmental international cooperation in Republican China's postwar history is explored, with the chapter of the Sino-American expedition to Mount Amne Machin. The historical depth and political impact of this chapter reveals the postwar international affairs.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2003
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Naval warfare and the refraction of China's self-strengthening reforms into scientific and technological failure, 1865-1895
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The inadequacies of late Qing Chinese navy and army was argued to be due to poor armaments, insufficient training, lack of leadership and low morale. The naval warfare and China's inadequacies of the self-strengthening era is reviewed.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2004
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