Jerome Ch'en

Bio: Jerome Ch'en is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Social history. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 119 citations.

Defining Chinese Warlords and Their Factions

Abstract: “ The warlords of twentieth–century china have received little scholarly attention.”. This omission is due, apart from the reasons viven in Mr. Sheridan's ‘Preface’, to the historical significance of the men and their period not being fully appreciated. What sort of men were they ? How did they rise to such great power? What effect did their abuse of power have on Chinese society ? Why did the May Fourth Movement, the Washington Conference, the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the reorganization of the Kuomintang, and the May 30th Movement use the misrule of the warlords as their back–drop? How far did the warlords undo the work of the restoration in the 1860“s and 19870”s ? These are but a few pertinent questions. In a period of merely 16 years (1912–28), over 1, 300 warlords had fought more than 140 provincial and interprovincial wars. Such a period is bund to be complicated but should not daunt the curiosity of the historian.

Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell.

Abstract: Foreword Portrait of Victor Purcell V. W. W. S. Purcell: a memoir Sybille van der Sprenkel Part I. China: 1. Anti-imperialism in the Kuomintang 1923-1928 P. Cavendish 2. The origin of the Boxers Jerome Ch'en 3. The high tide of socialism in the Chinese countryside Jack Gray 4. The Sino-Indian and Sino-Russian borders: some comparisons and contrasts Alastair Lamb 5. Unpublished report from Yenan, 1937 Owen Lattimore 6. The use of slogans and 'uninterrupted revolution' in China in the early part of 1964 James Macdonald 7. The Optick Artists of Chiangsu Joseph Needham Part II. South-east Asia: 8. Canton and Manila in the eighteenth century W. E. Cheong 9. Sino-British mercantile relations in Singapore's entrepot trade 1870-1915 Chiang Hai Ding 10. The Dutch and the tin trade of Malaya in the seventeenth century Graham W. Irwin 11. Early Chinese migration into North Sumatra Anthony Reid 12. Revolution in education Kenneth Robinson 13. Sikh immigration into Malaya during the period of British rule Kernial Singh Sandhu 14. The entrepot at Labuan and the Chinese Nicholas Tarling 15. China and South-east Asia 1402-1424 Wang Gungwu 16. Bibliography of the writings of Victor Purcell The Editors Index.

Global Migration 1846-1940

Abstract: European migrations to the Americas and Australia have often been noted as an important part of world history, but movements to the frontiers, factories, and cities of Asia and Africa have largely been overlooked. This paper will show that migrations to northern and southeastern Asia were comparable in size and demographic impact to the transatlantic flows and followed similar cycles of growth and contraction. These migrations were all part of an expanding world economy, and a global perspective suggests ways in which that economy extended beyond direct European intervention. A global perspective also compels us to extend the traditional ending point for the era of mass migration from 1914 to 1930, and to be more aware of how political intervention has shaped the world into different migration systems and led scholars to wrongly assume that these systems reflect categorically different kinds of migration.

The Cambridge History of China

Abstract: 1. Introduction: the old order John K. Fairbank 2. Ch'ing Inner Asia c.1800 Joseph Fletcher 3. Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn 4. The Canton trade and the Opium War Frederic Wakeman, Jr 5. The creation of the treaty system John K. Fairbank 6. The Taiping Rebellion Philip A. Kuhn 7. Sino-Russian relations, 1800-62 Joseph Fletcher 8. The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet Joseph Fletcher 9. The Ch'ing Restoration Kwang-Ching Liu 10. Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology Ting-Yee Kuo and Kwang-Ching Liu 11. Christian missions and their impact to 1900 Paul A. Cohen Bibliographical essays Bibliography Glossary and index.

Acting Out Democracy: Political Theater in Modern China

Abstract: For two and a half months in the spring of 1989, China's student actors dominated the world stage of modern telecommunications. Their massive demonstrations, the hunger strike during Gorbachev's visit, and the dramatic appearance of the Goddess of Democracy captured the attention of an audience that spanned the globe. As we write in mid-1990, the movement and its bloody suppression have already produced an enormous body of literature—from eyewitness accounts by journalists (Morrison 1989; Zhaoqiang, Gejing and Siyuan 1989) and special issues of scholarly journals ( Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs Nos. 23, 24; The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 14.4), to pictorial histories (Turnley and Turnley 1989) and documentary collections (Han 1990; Wu 1989), and, most recently, textbook chapters (Spence 1990) and analytical works (Feigon 1990; Nathan 1990)—tracing the development of China's crisis. Despite a flood of material too massive to review in the present context, we still lack a convincing interpretive framework that places the events within the context of China's modern political evolution, and also provides a way to compare China's experience to that of Eastern Europe. Such an interpretation should help us to understand why massive public demonstrations spurred an evolution toward democratic governance in Eastern Europe, but in China led only to the massacre of June 3–4 and the present era of political repression.

V.K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China

Abstract: Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo (1888-1985) was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in twentieth-century China. After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Koo entered government service in 1912 intent on revising the unequal treaty system imposed on China in the nineteenth century, believing that breaking the shackles of imperialism would bring China into the "family of nations." His pursuit of this nationalistic agenda was immediately interrupted by Chinese civil war and Japanese imperialism during World War I. In the 1930s Koo attempted to use international law to force western powers to honor their treaty obligations to punish Japanese expansion. Koo also participated in creating the League of Nations and later the United Nations in the hope that collective security would become reality.