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Historian Susan Mann of UC Davis has been awarded this year’s Fairbank Prize for her book The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. (Read a review here.) It’s a brilliant book and the award couldn’t be more deserved. Her previous book Precious Records received the Levenson Prize in 1997. The prize is awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book on the post-1800 East Asian history. Congratulations to Professor Mann and a nudge to readers to check out the book. Puyi (The Xuantong Emperor) Most people know that yesterday marked 200 years since the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin…but it was also the 96th anniversary of the end of Manchu rule. The text below is a section from one of two edicts which officially ended imperial rule. The first turned over the reins of government to Yuan Shikai and the new Republic of China. The second requested that the Republican Army for not disturbing the Imperial ancestral tombs and temples, and to protect the title and person of the young emperor and his family. “We have respectfully received the following Imperial Edict from Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Dowager Longyu: As a consequenceof the uprising of the Rebublican Army, to which the different provinces immediately resonded, the Empire seethed like a boiling caudrong and the people were plunged into utter misery. Yuan Shikai wsa, therefore, especially commanded some time ago to dispatch commissioners to confer with representatives of the Republican Army on the general situation and to discuss matters pertaining to the convening of a National Assembly for the deciding a suitable mode of settlement. Separated as the South and the North are by great distances, the |
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