Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and the Chinese Nationalist Modernity
Dr. Tze-ki Hon
Research
Thanks to the Modern East Asia Research Centre, I was able to complete my book, Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and the Chinese Nationalist Modernity. During my fellowship at MEARC (September 2006 - July 2007), I was provided with an office, an internet connection, and the library access that allowed me to work efficiently on my book project. I was grateful to the staff of Chinese library for helping me locate precious documents from around the world, including finding the original 1910 version of Guocui xuebao in Leiden and Berlin. More importantly, I benefited greatly from the reading group meetings led by the MEARC directors, Professor Axel Schneider and Chris Goto-Jones, the stimulating lectures by MEARC, and the informal discussions with the MEARC research fellows and Leiden faculty. Above all, I was given the opportunities to present my ideas in public at a MEARC lecture on 27 March and at the 4-day conference on The Writing of History in 20th Century East Asia in June 2007.
Products academic year 2006/2007
- Lecture " A Renaissance or a French Revolution: Visions of Nationalist Modernity in Early Twentieth Century China ", MEARC Lecture Series, Leiden University, March 2007;
- Paper " Revolution as Restoration: Meanings of 'National Essence' and 'National Learning' in Guocui xuebao " for the international MEARC/VICI conference: The Writing of History in 20th Century Asia: Between Linear Time and the Reproduction of National Consciousness, Leiden University, June 2007;
- The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography Vol. 2, Leiden: Brill 2007.
