Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Related Discourses, Practices, and Institutions in Japan and China

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A Selected Bibliography of Protecting the Weak in East Asia, Past and Present


Philanthropy and Charity

Albertson, K. J. (2008), Seeds of Civil Society: Philanthropy in China from the Ming Dynasty to the Modern Period, University of Bologna.

Benthall, Jordan (1997), “The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Islamic Societies, with Special Reference to Jordan”, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 157–177.

Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice M. (1985), “The Laws of Compassion”, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 163-189.

Brewer, Karen (1983), “From Philanthropy to Reform: The American Red Cross in China, 1906-1930”, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Brown, A. R. and Pierce, Justin (Eds.) (2013), Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities, Rouledge, London, New York.

Carrillo Garcia, B. (2012), “Business Opportunities and Philanthropic Initiatives: Private Entrepreneurs, Welfare Provision and the Prospects for Social Change in China.”, ProtoSociology, No. 29, pp. 101–115.

Chen, Janet Y. (2012), Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Chi Zihua 池子华 (2001), Zhongguo liumin shi: jindai juan 中国流民史: 近代卷 [The History of Refugees in China: Modern Volume], Anhui renmin chubanshe; Distributor, Xinhua shudian, Hefei.

Chi Zihua 池子华 (2004), Hong shi zi yu jindai Zhongguo 红十字与近代中国 [The Red Cross in Modern China], Anhui renmin chubanshe, Hefei.

Chi Zihua池子华and Cui Longjian 崔龙健 (2014), Zhongguo Hong shi zi yundong shiliao xuanbian 中国红十字运动史料选编 [A Selection of Historical Documents Dealing with the Red Cross Movement in China], Hefei gongyedaxue chubanshe, Hefei.

Chi Zihua池子華and Hao Ruyi 郝如一 (2010), Hong shizi yundong yu cishan wenhua 紅十字運動與慈善文化 [The Red Cross Movement and Philanthropic Culture], Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, Guilin.

DuBois, Thomas (2013), “The Salvation of Religion? Public Charity and New Religions of the Early Chinese Republic”, in Brown, A. R. and Pierce, Justin (Eds.), Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities, Rouledge, London, New York, pp. 115–146.

Fassin, Didier and Gomme, Rachel (2012), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Times, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Gao Pengcheng 高鹏程 (2011), Shijie hong wanzi hui jiqi shehui jiuzhu shiye yanjiu (1929-1949) 世界红卍字会及其社会救助事业研究 (1929-1949) [A Study of the Red Swastika Society and its Social Relief Work (1929-1949)], Hefei gongye daxue chubanshe, Hefei.

Gewirth, Alan (1987), “Private Philanthropy and Positive Rights”, Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 4 No. 02, p. 55.

Green, Abigail (2005), “Rethinking Sir Moses Montefiore. Religion, Nationhood, and International Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century”, American Historical Review, Vol. 110 No. 3, pp. 631–658.

Huang Hongshan 黄鸿山 (2007), Zhongguo jindai cishan shiye yanjiu: Yi wan Qing Jiangnan wei zhongxin中国近代慈善事业研究: 以晚清江南为中心 [Research of Chinese Modern Charities: Focusing on the South of Yangtze River during the Late Qing Dynasty], Dissertation, Suzhou daxue.

Ilchman, Warren F. et al. (Eds.) (Ed.) (1998), Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Katz, Paul R. (2006), “'It Is Difficult to Be Indifferent to One's Roots'. Taizhou Sojourners and Flood Relief during the 1920s”, Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi yanjiusuo jikan, No. 54, pp. 1–58.

Kirimli, Hakan (2003), “The Famine of 1921-22 in the Crimea and the Volga Basin and the Relief from Turkey”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 37–88.

Liang Qizi 梁其姿 (2001), Shi shan yu jiao hua: Ming Qing de ci shan zu zhi 施善与敎化: 明清的慈善組織 [The Act of Benevolence and its Teachings: Charity Organisations during the Ming and Qing Dynasty], Taiwan xue shu cong shu, Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, Shijiazhuang.

Lin, Alfred H. (2004), “Warlord, Social Welfare and Philanthropy. The Case of Guangzhou under Chen Jitang, 1929-1936”, Modern China, Vol. 30 No. No. 2, pp. 151–198.

Liu Ping 劉平 (2012), “'E zhi hua' 'shan zhi guo'-Hong wanzi hui toushi” ‘惡之花’? ‘善之果’?—紅卍字會透視 ['A Flower of Evil' or 'a Fruit of Goodness'-A New Perspective on the Red Swastika Society], Shijie zongjiao wenhua, No. 4, pp. 39–44.

Marutschke, Hans P., Ishibe, Masasuke and Murakami, Junʼichi (Eds.) (2006), Beiträge zur modernen japanischen Rechtsgeschichte, Juristische Zeitgeschichte. Abt. 1, Allgemeine Reihe, Bd. 21, BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin.

Meyer-Fong, Tobie S. (2013), What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China, Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Ning Qian 宁钱 (2004), “Cong rendao zhuyi dao gongmin quanli: Xiandai shehuifuli zhengzhi daode guannian de lishi yanbian” 从人道主义到公民权利: 现代社会福利政治道德观念的历史演变 [From Humanism to Civil Rights: The Historical Development of the Concept of Social Welfare and Political Morality in Modern Times of Society], Shehuixue yanjiu, pp. No. 1, 46–52.

Pu Wenqi 濮文起 (2007), “Minguo shiqi de Shijie hong wanzi hui” 民國時期的世界紅卍字會 [The World Red Swastika Society during the Republican period], Guizhou daxue xuebao (shehui kexue ban), Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 89–96.

Reeves, Caroline (1998), The Power of Mercy: The Chinese Red Cross Society, 1900-1937, PhD Diss, Harvard University.

Shue, Vivienne (2011), “The Political Economy of Compassion: China's ‘Charity Supermarket’ Saga”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 20 No. 72, pp. 751–772.

Smith, Johanna F. Handlin (1998), “Philanthropy in China as Seen through a Case of Famine Relief in the 1640s”, in Ilchman, Warren F. et al. (eds.) (Ed.), Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 133–168.

Smith, Johanna H. (2009), The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Tucker, Mary E. (1998), “A View of Philanthropy in Japan. Confucian Ethics and Education”, in Ilchman, Warren F. et al. (Eds.), Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 169–193.

Wue, Roberta (2004) "The Profits of Philantrophy: Relief Aid, Shenbao, and the Art World in Later Nineteenth-Century Shanghai", Late Imperial China, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 187-211.

Yin Fang 尹芳 (2011), “Wang Yiting yu Shanghai cishan tuanti lianhehui” 王一亭與上海慈善團體聯合會 [Wang Yiting and the Federation of Shanghai Philanthropic Organizations], Jiangxi jiaoyu xueyuan, Vol. 32 No. 5, pp. 140–143.