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Creators of modern China : 100 lives from empire to republic 1796-1912 / edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell.

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London : Thames & Hudson : The British Museum, 2023.

China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Biography.

China -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.

9780500480809 (hardcover) :

050048080X (hardcover)

367 pages : illustrations (color, black & white) ; 25 cm

The Court : Emperors, Empresses, Eunuchs, Courtiers and Entertainers. The Jiaqing emperor : Under-estimated ruler ; The Daoguang emperor : Ruler forced to open China to Western powers ; The Xianfeng emperor : Victim and perpetrator of Qing decline ; The Tongzhi emperor : Puppet emperor ; The Guangxu emperor : Reforming emperor ; Imperial Consort Keshun : Polemically romanticized concubine ; Empress Dowager Cixi : Controversial female ruler ; Puyi and Wanrong : Last emperor and empress ; Li Lianying : Celebrated palace eunuch ; Yu Rongling : Diplomat's daughter who brought modern dance to China ; Tan Xinpei : First modern Chinese opera star ; Wang Yaoqing : Peking Opera artist and master teacher -- Religious Figures : Daoists, Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians. Min Yide : Healer, mystic and founder of an elite spirit-writing network ; Wanyan Linqing : Bannerman, official and author ; Yang Wenhui : Father of modern Chinese Buddhism ; Yusuf Ma Dexin : Islamic scholar and hajji ; Hong Xiuquan : Inspirer of the Taiping ; Liang Fa : Chinese evangelist and first Protestant minister -- Militarists : Soldiers, Martyrs, Mercenaries and Pirates. Nergingge : Manchu official and military strategist ; Shi Yang : Female pirate chief ; Wei Yuan : Visionary official and writer of a monumental study of Qing warfare ; Sengge Rinchen : Prince and formidable commander ; MG Charles Gordon : British soldier 'Chinese' Gordon ; Huang Shuhua : Teenage avenger and female martyr ; Yuan Shikai : Soldier, reformer, president and would-be emperor ; Qiu Jin : Poet, feminist and revolutionary -- Artists : Calligraphers, Epigraphers, Painters, Illustrators and Photographers. Deng Shiru : Antiquarian modernizer of Chinese calligraphy ; Yi Bingshou : Chinese official, calligrapher, epigraphist ; Ruan Yuan : Outstanding scholar with an encyclopaedic mind ; Liuzhou : Scholar, maker, believer ; Sun Mingqiu : A master of masquerading ; Zhang Yin : Atmospheric landscape painter ; Qian Du : Poet-painter known for his fresh classicism ; Cao Zhenxiu : Outstanding woman calligrapher and painter ; Fei Danxu : Celebrated artist of figures from life and legend ; Tang Yifen : Poet, calligrapher, painter, composer, dramatist ; Dai Xi : Official and painter of landscapes real and imagined ; Su Renshan : Iconoclast and wartime artist ; Ju Chao : Poet and painter of Lingnan ; Yai Xie : Man of letters and trailblazing patron ; Ren Xiong : Prodigiously innovative artist ; Ren Yi or Ren Bonian : Shanghai artist and portrait painter ; Zhao Zhiqian : Seal artist, calligrapher and painter ; Wu Changshi : Founder of China's artistic modernism ; Qingkuan : Court painter and Qing loyalist ; Wu Youru : News illustrator and painter ; Li Shutong : Bringer of Western oil painting to China via Japan ; Lai Fong : Qing China's most successful photographer --

Observers : Writers, Poets, Translators and Travellers. Yun Zhu : Woman poet and feminist scholar avant la lettre ; Gu Taiqing : Greatest female Manchu poet of the Qing dynasty ; Wu Songliang : Forgotten 'Lyrical Buddha' ; Wu Jianren : Novelist and newspaper man ; Jakdan : Translator and Manchu poet ; Manchu Teacher of the 'One Hundred Lessons' : Creator of a Manchu linguistic identity ; Injannasi : Groundbreaking Mongolian novelist ; Lu Xinyuan : Influential collector of antiquarian texts ; Mūsā Sayrāmī : Chronicler of war and reconstruction ; Wang Tao : Journalist, newspaper publisher, reformer, world traveller ; Shan Shili : Poet, travel writer, proto-feminist ; Li Gui : Survivor and circumnavigator ; Huang Zunxian : Poet and diplomat ; Yan Fu : Polymath who awakened a generation ; Sarah Pike Conger : Survivor of the 1900 siege, friend of Cixi ; Zhang Taiyan : Philologist, revolutionary, founder of national learning ; Naitō Konan : Famous and controversial Japanese historian of China -- Business People : Commodity Traders, Financiers, Entrepreneurs and Media Tycoons. Wu Bingjian : Wealthiest man in the world in the 1830s ; Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy : Parsi-Indian businessman and philanthropist ; Hu Xueyan : Financier and merchant ; Widow Anwu : The most successful businesswoman in late Qing China ; Silas Hardoon and Luo Jialing : Speculators and philanthropists ; Ernest Major : Shanghai publisher and founder of the 'Shenbao' ; Sir Robert Hart : Inspector general of the Imperial Maritime Customs ; Thomas Hanbury : Trader and botanist who helped shape Shanghai ; Kishida Ginkō : Pioneer journalist, entrepreneur and benefactor ; Di Baoxian : Cultural entrepreneur -- Statespeople : Campaigners, Reformers, Diplomats and Philosophers. Yinghe : Manchu politician and man of letters ; Lin Zexu : Troubleshooter ; Bao Shichen : Policy expert ; Zeng Guofan : Victorious general in the Taiping Civil War ; Zuo Zongtang : Military leader and industrial innovator ; Zhang Zhidong : Abolisher of the imperial examinations ; Prince Gong : Architect of modern diplomacy in China after 1860 ; Li Hongzhang : Diplomat brokering an international vision of China ; Guo Songtao : Diplomat and first Chinese minister to Britain ; Chen Jitong : Flamboyant Qing emissary to France ; Sai Jinhua : Cross-cultural courtesan ; Gu Hongming : World thinker and eccentric loyalist ; Kang Youwei : Radical philosopher and reformer ; Liang Qichao : China's first public intellectual ; Duanfang : Manchu statesman, reformer and art connoisseur ; Sun Yat-set : China's first president -- Makers : Craftspeople, Folklorists and Scientists. Su Xuejin : Prize-winning potter from Dehua ; Chen Weiyan : Shiwan potter who experimented with porcelain ; Wu Qijun : Botanist, governor and technocrat ; Zhang Jian : Modernizing industrialist, educator and philanthropist ; Shen Shou : Innovative embroiderer ; Abing : China's greatest folk musician ; Luo Zhenyu : Antiquarian and archaeological pioneer ; Liu E : Hydrologist, antiquarian, novelist ; Ida Kahn : Medical leader and missionary -- Further reading -- Contributors -- Chronology.

"Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country's transition from dynastic empire to republic. This insightful book, written by a large team of international scholars and specialists, sprang from a simple but original ambition : to provide the reader with an understanding -- told through the lives of 100 significant individuals -- of how China transformed from dynastic empire to a modern, republican nation during the period 1796 to 1912. Both famous and surprisingly little-known women and men are brought together in eight thematic sections that illuminate the birth of modern China. Featured figures include the Dowager Empress Cixi, the power behind the throne of the Qing Dynasty for fifty years ; Yu Rongling, who is regarded as the founder of modern dance in China and who trained in Paris with Isadora Duncan ; Duanfang, China's first serious collector of international art before being murdered by his own troops in the 1911 Revolution ; Shi Yang, the greatest woman pirate in the world who is now celebrated in popular culture as a powerful feminine icon ; Luo Zhenyu, the "father" of Chinese archaeology whose discoveries confirmed the antiquity of Chinese civilization ; and many others. Each biography has been written by a specialist curator or scholar from China, Japan, Australia, the United States, Canada, Europe, or the United Kingdom, making this an authoritative resource for students, academics, and anyone interested in the history of China and the country's place in the modern world. This book breathes life into China's history, filling the gap in the market for an accessible book that meets the widespread and growing desire to understand China and its role on the world stage." -- Amazon.com.

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