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Russian Tea Trade in Hankou during Second Half of 19th Century: Production of Brick Tea

Научный диалог, 2023
This article addresses the issue of producing the socalled “brick tea” in China at Russian factories during the second half of the 19th century. Compressed teas constituted the second largest group after looseleaf teas highlighted in prerevolutionary ...
I. R. Khamzin, R. T. Ganiev
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Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese inheritance system, families without a biological son could adopt an heir to continue the family lineage and transfer assets and social status ...
Hiroshi Kumanomido, Yutaro Takayasu
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Migration of the Population from the Ili Region to the Russian Empire after the Ili Crisis (Based on Materials from the Newspaper “Eastern Review”)

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The Ili crisis in Russian-Chinese relations led to the intensification of migration processes in the region. The local population was seriously concerned about the consequences of the presence of Qing troops after the departure of the Russians.
Elena V. Karpenko
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A Brief Comparative Study of the Imperial Crises of China and Japan from the Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries

Altralang Journal, 2020
: Empire’ in the traditional sense was present throughout most of human history arguably until the emergence of the ‘nation-state’ structure in the past century and ‘Imperialism’ persists even to this day.
Arka CHAKRABORTY
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From Hai Yao, Yang Yao to Xi Yao: Sinification of Material Medical from the West

Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2023
In ancient China, Daoist philosophers developed the concepts of qi (energy), Wu Xing (five elements), and yin (feminine, dark, negative) and yang (masculine, bright, positive) opposite forces between 200 and 600 BCE. Based on these philosophies, Zhen Jiu
Patrick Chiu
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Verbal and Visual-Figurative Clichés in the Representation of China in Connection with the Boxer Rebellion: Mandarin, Anthropomorphic “Titbid”, Frozen Empire [PDF]

Телекинет
The article analyzes the verbal and visual-figurative representations of China in magazines of the Russian Empire in 1898–1901. The author focuses on texts and images that became a reflection or reaction to the Boxer Rebellion, the main event included ...
Zakharchuk, V. V
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Crossing Borders of Care: The Professionalization of Women in Nursing and China–US Collaboration at Xiangya, 1909–1926

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the development of modern nursing education in China through a case study of the Xiangya School of Nursing in Changsha between 1909 and 1926. Founded in 1911 by the Yale‐in‐China Association, a non‐denominational mission, Xiangya was among the earliest nursing schools in China to promote undergraduate nursing education ...
Yao Tang, Dominique Tobbell
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Ecologies of Empire: From Qing Cosmopolitanism to Modern Nationalism [PDF]

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2013
According to modern ecological theory, ecosystems are fragile combinations of diverse elements, and their resilience—or ability to recover after external shocks—varies as the system develops. Under conditions of low resilience, the system can collapse unpredictably and shift into a new state.
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