The politics of mnemonics: History in the debate over Taiwan's status

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Taiwan offer scholars and opportunity to examine nation-building in progress, while presenting a challenge to policymakers. The debate among those who perceive Taiwan as a Chinese province, a nascent republic, or something in between, which highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between history, the nation, and contemporary political agendas, is presented.

Taiwan, Political aspects, Chinese reunification question

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Circulating American higher education: The case of Lingnan University, 1888-1951

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The history of the Lingnan College approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 1987 is illustrated to understand the dynamics of the American and Chinese educational interaction from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Government expenditures, Government domestic functions, Financial management, Management dynamics, Hong Kong, Management, Finance, Company business management, Company financing, Art schools, Federal aid to higher education, Government aid to higher education, State departments of education, Government finance, Education policy

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To reconstruct the medieval: Rural reconstruction in interwar China and the rise of an American style of modernization, 1921-1961

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The American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work in Nationalist China during the Nanjing decade was important in laying the groundwork for post-1945 modernization efforts in Asia.

Asia, International politics, International aspects, International relations, Military aspects, Non-governmental organizations, Nongovernmental organizations, Cold War, 1945-1991, Postwar reconstruction, Modernization, Nanjing, China

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