Elites, Networks and Power in Modern China

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JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Christian Henriot
Introduction. From Nodes to Narratives: Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Modern China

In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 1–23. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

Christian Henriot
From Paradise to Hell: The Downfall of French Interests in China

In Statelessness after Arendt: Refugees in Asia and the Pacific during the Global Second World War, edited by Jay Winters and Kolleen Guy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025: 308-331.

Henriot, Christian. “Eminent Chinese of the Shenbao (1872-1891). A Digital Investigation of

Cécile Armand
Reshaping the Chinese Ladder of Success in the Era of Globalization: Family Strategies and Social Mobility of Early American-Educated Chinese (1850-1917)

2026, accepted

Christian Henriot
Japan-Educated Officials in China’s Wartime Central Administration

Twentieth-Century China, Special Issue, 2026 (forthcoming)

Christian Henriot
Forging Bonds and Building Factories: The Networked World of Shanghai’s Industrial Elite

In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 313–50. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

Cécile Armand
Uncovering Places in Two-Mode Networks

November 2024 ⟨10.48645/nk8x- 8d47)

Jiang Jie
Ren yi qun fen: zhongguo guomindang jiangling qunti zhuanji yanjiu (1935-1949) 人以群分——中国国民党将领群体传记研究(1935-1949)

(Birds of a feather flock together: A Biographical Study of Chinese Nationalist Generals (1935-1949)).” Jindanshi yanjiu 近代史研究 Journal Modern history researches, no. (submit) (2024).

Baptiste Blouin, Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot
Named Entities

Torino, 2024. https://lrec-coling-2024.org/.

Guo Weiting
Interview of Stevan Harrell: Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies

In 《冷戰下的「臺灣研究」:北美人類學家訪問紀錄》: Lengzhan xia de “Taiwan yanjiu”: Beimei renleixuejia fangwen jilu (Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies: American Anthropologists in Cold War Taiwan), 343–438. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2024.

Christian Henriot
Eminent Chinese of the Shenbao (1872-1891). A Digital Investigation of News Reporting and Newspaper-Making in Late Imperial China

Eminent Chinese of the Shenbao (1872-1891). A Digital Investigation of News Reporting and Newspaper-Making in Late Imperial China.  Journal of Digital History, 2024.

Cécile Armand
Shaping the Transnational Public Sphere in Republican China: Discourses and Practices of the Rotary Club in the Shanghai Press (1919-1949)

Journal of Digital History, no. Special issue DH China (2024)

Cécile Armand
ReOrienting Digital History: New Frontiers in Chinese Studies

Journal of Digital History, no. Special issue DH China (2024)

Cécile Armand
Bonding Minds, Bridging Nations: Sino-American Alumni Networks in the Era of Exclusion (1882-1936)

In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 163–239. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024

Christian Henriot
Les Aires Culturelles, Une Politique En Trompe-l’œil ?

EspacesTemps.Net., 2023

Jiang Jie
Qianyan 前言 (Introduction).” In Shuzi Renwen Yu Shixue Yanjiu 数字人文与史学研究

数字人文与史学研究 (Digital Humanities and Historical Studies). Shanghai sanlian shudian, 2023.

Guo Weiting
The Diary of Zhang Gang: An Excerpt

in Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45, Edited by Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, and Norman Smith (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021), 170-189.” In Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023, 170-189.

Guo Weiting
The Logics of Atrocities: A Local Official and the Small Wars in Taiping China, 1851–1864

in Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45, Edited by Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, and Norman Smith (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021), 170-189.” In Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023, 170-189.

Baptiste Blouin, Hen-Hsen Huang, Christian Henriot, and Cécile Armand
Unlocking Transitional Chinese: Word Segmentation in Modern Historical Texts

In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, edited by Mika Hämäläinen et al., 92–101. Tokyo, Japan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Baptiste Blouin, Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot
HistText: An Application for Leveraging Large-Scale Historical Textbases

Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities 2023, no. Project presentations (November 10, 2023)

Jiang Jie
Faguo Xinjian ‘Chi Guang’ Zazhi Di 50 ,53 Ji 55 Qi Gaikuang —— Jianlun Zhubian Renyuan Gengti Yu Zazhi Liuchuan 法国新见杂志第50、53及55期概况——兼论主编人员更替与杂志流传

Faguo Xinjian ‘Chi Guang’ Zazhi Di 50 ,53 Ji 55 Qi Gaikuang —— Jianlun Zhubian Renyuan Gengti Yu Zazhi Liuchuan 法国新见<赤光>杂志第50、53及55期概况——兼论主编人员更替与杂志流传 (An Overview of Issues 50, 53, and 55 of ‘Red Light’ Newly Discovered in France - A Discussion on the Succession of Editors-in-Chief and the Circulation of the Magazine).” Shi Lin 史林 (Historical Circles ), no. 5 (2022): 108–16.

Cécile Armand
Foreign Clubs with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary Club of Shanghai and the Politics of Language

In Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China, edited by Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Huei-min Sun, 233–59. Leiden: Brill, 2022

Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, Huei-min Sun
Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Networks—Elites in Transition in Modern China

In Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China, edited by Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Huei-min Sun, 1–21. Leiden: Brill, 2022

Cécile Armand & Christian Henriot
X-Boorman: The Biographical Dictionary of Republican China in the Digital Age

In Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China, edited by Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Huei-min Sun, 233–59. Leiden: Brill, 2022

Jiang Jie
Faguo de Zhongguo Jindaishi Yanjiu: Yi Fen Pipanxing de Pinggu” 法國的中國近代史研究: 一份批判性的評估 (French Research on Modern China: A Critical Appraisal)

(French Research on Modern China: A Critical Appraisal).” Shanghai Fazujie Yanjiu 上海法租界研究 4, no. 4 (2022): 169–77.

Cécile Armand
Circulez, y a rien à voir !’: Publicité et mobilité à Shanghai dans la première moitié du 20e siècle

Revue d’histoire 149, no. 1 (May 31, 2021): 75–93.

Christian Henriot
Fusu Yu Qianyi : Zhanshi Shanghai Gongye de Kongjian Huoili” 复 苏 与迁 移 : 战 时 上 海 工 业 的 空 间 活 力

(Regeneration and Mobility: The Spatial Dynamics of Industries in Wartime Shanghai).” Quanqiu Chengshi Yanjiu 全球城市研究 (Global Urban Studies), no. 4 (2022): 50–68.

Jiang Jie
Faguo Guoli Haiwai Dang’anguan Xinjian Zhi ‘Gongren Xunkan’ Gaikuang 法国国立海外档案馆新见之《工人旬刊》概况

(Overview of ‘Gongren Xunkan’ Discovered in the French National Overseas Archives).” Tushuguan Zazhi 图书馆杂志 (Library Journal), no. 7 (2021).

Baptiste Blouin, Pierre Magistry, and Nora Van den Bosch
Creating Biographical Networks from Chinese and English Wikipedia

Journal of Historical Network Research 5, no. 1 (September 8, 2021)

Christian Henriot
The Battle of Shanghai (January-March 1932): A Study in the Space-Time of War.

Journal of Military History 85, no. 1 (2021): 76–94

Cécile Armand
MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History.

In Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Topics in Knowledge Production, edited by Virginia Kuhn and Kathie Gossett, 119-128. Open Book Publishers, 2021.

Cécile Armand
Negotiating Advertising Aesthetics in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai

In Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments, edited by Arundhati Virmani, 99–126. London: OpenBook Publishers, 2021

Cécile Armand & Christian Henriot
From Textual to Historical Networks: Social Relations in the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China

Journal of Historical Network Research 5, no. 1 (September 8, 2021): 114–53.

Guo Weiting
Review of The Making of the Modern Chinese State, 1600–1950

by Huaiyin Li. The Journal of Asian Studies, 80, No. 2 (2021): 458–460.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 2 (May 17, 2021): 458–60.

Jiang Jie
Tazhe de Shiye : Zuijin Ershi Nian Faguo de Kangzhanshi Yanjiu Yu Shuxie 他者的视野:最近二十年法国的抗战史研究与书写

(The Other’s Perspective: Recent Research and Writings in France on the History of the Sino-Japanese War).” Shanghai Shifan Daxue Xuebao 上海师范大学学报 (Journal of Shanghai Normal University), no. 4 2020

Jiang Jie
Hun Gui Hechu:yierba Shibian Zhong de ‘shizong Renkou’ 魂归何处:一·二八事变中的‘失踪人口’

(Where Have They Gone? The Missing Persons in the January 28th Incident).” Shixue Yuekan 史学月刊 History Monthly, no. 9 (2020).

Guo Weiting
The Portraits of a Heroine: Huang Bamei and the Politics of Wartime History in China and Taiwan, 1930–1960

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 9, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 7–39.

Jiang Jie
Faguo Cang Zhongguo Kangzhan Dang’an Shiliao Shulue 法国藏中国抗战档案史料述略

A Preliminary Study of Sino-Japanese War Archives Hold in Frence).” Zhonggong Dangshi Yanjiu 中共党史研究 (Journal of Chinese Communist Party History), no. 2 (2020): 153–58

Guo Weiting
Review of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989

by Jennifer Altehenger. Pacific Affairs, 99, No. 3 (2020): 639–641.” Pacific Affairs 99, no. 3 (September 1, 2020)

Cécile Armand & Christian Henriot
Paris in the Orient: A Spatial Micro-History of the French in Shanghai (1942)

Urban History, 2020, 1–19

Christian Henriot
When the Dead Go Marching in’. Cemetery Relocation and Grave Migration in Modern Shanghai

In The Chinese Deathscape [Digital Book-Platform]. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019

Christian Henriot, Pierre Magistry, and Cécile Armand
Mining the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. From Print to Network Exploration

In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2019, CEUR., 24–30. Varna, 2019.

Jiang Jie
Zhanzheng Yu Dupin:zhanshi Shanghai de Dupin Maoyi Yu Feixiao 战争与毒品:战时上海的毒品贸易与消费

(War and Drugs: The Drug Trade and Consumption in Shanghai During the Second Sino-Japanese War).” Kangri Zhanzheng Yanjiu 抗日战争研究 (Journal of Sino-Japanese War Studies), no. 6 (2018): 4–21.

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