Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic, written by Xu Xu
In: Journal of Chinese humanities, Band 6, Heft 2-3, S. 286-290
ISSN: 2352-1341
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In: Journal of Chinese humanities, Band 6, Heft 2-3, S. 286-290
ISSN: 2352-1341
In: Journal of Chinese humanities, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 232-235
ISSN: 2352-1341
In: International journal of Asian studies, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 77-97
ISSN: 1479-5922
Zhang Mengshi died in late 2014 at the age of ninety-two, shortly after his autobiography was published. He was born into a life of privilege because his father Zhang Jinghui was a close confidant of the Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin. Mengshi was a boy in Harbin in the 1930s when Russian influences dominated the city, then when his father became prime minister of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in 1935 he lived with his family in Hsinking, the new capital. He studied in Japan in the early 1940s as war in the Pacific intensified. His father upheld the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, while Mengshi secretly worked with the Communist underground to undermine the occupation. When Soviet troops arrived in 1945 to take over from the defeated Japanese, Mengshi was also arrested and sent to Siberia, though he was willing to help the Russian Communists. In 1950 he returned to the new People's Republic of China, to work with the captured Chinese and Japanese from former Manchukuo, including his own father and former emperor Puyi, teaching them about the crimes they had committed. In this article Mengshi's fascinating autobiography is summarized and commented on.
In: Journal of Chinese humanities, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 141-143
ISSN: 2352-1341
In: The China quarterly, Band 207, S. 737-738
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly, Band 188, S. 1146-1148
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 188, S. 1146-1147
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly, Band 183, S. 726-728
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 183, S. 726-727
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: International journal of Asian studies, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 330-332
ISSN: 1479-5922
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 175-176
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: The China quarterly, Band 89, S. 97-104
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 66-67
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 643-660
ISSN: 1469-8099
Financial chaos was the rule during China's warlord period from 1916 to 1928. The Central Government in Peking was often short of funds because the warlords who controlled the provinces refused to forward tax receipts to the capital. The effectiveness of the financial administrative machinery in each province varied greatly, and if careful accounts were kept by the provincial governments, they have not been made public. Most confusing of all was the assortment of currencies circulating in the provinces. A bewildering variety of coins and paper notes, generally issued by local banks and money-changing shops, were used in each province, though they would probably not be accepted at face value in the neighbouring province. In some areas foreign currency, such as Mexican silver dollars or Japanese gold yen notes, could also be found in the key market towns. So many currencies were in use that local chambers of commerce met daily to calculate the relative values of the currencies traded in their immediate area.
In: China report: a journal of East Asian studies = Zhong guo shu yi, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 41-47
ISSN: 0973-063X