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)

Lien Ling-ling, and Wei-chun Yeh
Reimagining Elite Women’s Culture in Late Imperial China: Social Networks, Literary Legacies, and the Transition to Modernity

In Modern China in Flux. Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 59–98. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

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)

Wu Jen-shu
Agricultural Technocrats in Modern China: A Network-Based Study of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

In Modern China in Flux. Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 135–62. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.

Van den Bosch Nora
Chinese Students in Belgium (1919–1939): An Exploratory Analysis with the Liubi Xuesheng-Dataset.

In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot, 241–80. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.

Tian Le
Jardine Matheson & Co: Commercial Choice and Social Network

In Whom Shall I Trust: Sino-British Commercial Relationship in Early Nineteenth Century, Doctoral Dissertation. Bristol: Bristol University, 2024.

 

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).

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.

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.

Baptiste Blouin, Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot
Named Entities

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

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

EspacesTemps.Net., 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
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.

Sun Huei-min
Who Are Elites? Elite Distinction and Who’s Who Publications in Early 20th-Century China

In Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China, edited by Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Huei-min Sun, 22–53. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

lien Ling-ling
Zhizuo Xinwelei: Wanqing Baokan de Shehui Diaocha 製作新文類:晚清報刊的社會調查 [The Production of New Literary Categories: Social Surveys within Late Qing Dynasty Periodicals]

Dongya Guannianshi Jikan東亞觀念史, no. 20 (September 2022): 467–525.

lien Ling-ling
Cishan de Genji: Jiangsong Meiling de Jidujiao Xinyang 慈善的根基:蔣宋美齡的基督教信仰(The Foundation of Charity: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek’s Christian Faith)

In Song Meiling Yu Taiwan Gongyi Shiye 宋美齡與台灣公益事業 (Mayling Soong and Taiwan Public Welfare), 195–249. New York: Outer Sky Press, 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, 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

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.

Lien
Service to the Empire and to the Community’: The British Women’s Association in Shanghai, 1921-51

In Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China, edited by Cecile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Huei-min Sun, 145–80. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

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.

lien Ling-ling
Yuandu Yu Jindu: Erzhan Qijian Rizhanqu Juliumin Zhuanji de Cipin Fenxi 遠讀與近讀:二戰期間日佔區拘留民傳記的詞頻分析 (Distant Reading and Close Reading: Word Frequency Analysis of Civilian Internment Memoirs in Japanese-Occupied Territories During World War II).

In Bianyuan Zhi Sheng: Jindai Zhongguo Zhuanji Shuxie de Xinchangshi 邊緣之聲:近代中國傳記書寫的新嘗試 (Voices from the Margins: New Approaches to Biographical Writing in Modern China), under review

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.

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)

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

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 & 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.

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).

Yeh Wei-chun, Lien Ling-Ling, Chien-an Chen, Ming-yi
Xingbie, Qikan Yu Shehui Wangluo: ‘Funü Qikan Zuozhe Yanjiu Pingtai’ de Jieshao Yu Yingyong 性別、期刊與社會網絡:「婦女期刊作者研究平台」的介紹與應用 (Gender, Journals, and Social Networks: Introduction and Application of‘ 'Women Periodical Author Research Platform’

Xingbie, Qikan Yu Shehui Wangluo: ‘Funü Qikan Zuozhe Yanjiu Pingtai’ de Jieshao Yu Yingyong 性別、期刊與社會網絡:「婦女期刊作者研究平台」的介紹與應用 (Gender, Journals, and Social Networks: Introduction and Application of‘ 'Women Periodical Author Research Platform’  Shuwei Diancang Yu Shuwei Renwen數位典藏與數位人文 (Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities), no. 7 (April 2021): 37–78

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).

Wu Jen-shu
Jiehou Funü:kangzhan Shiqi Suzhou Lunxian Hou de Funü Shenghuo 劫後婦女:抗戰時期:蘇州淪陷後的婦女生活 Women after the Catastrophe: Wartime Women’s Life after the Occupation of Suzhou

Jindai Zhongguo Funüshi Yanjiu 近代婦女史研究 (Research on Women in Modern Chinese History), no. 35 (2020): 1–65.

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

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

Urban History, 2020, 1–19

Paulès Xavier
Le Petit Âge d’or Statistique de La Décennie de Nankin (1928-1937)

In L’Encyclopédie Des Historiographies (Afriques, Amériques, Asies), Volume 1 : Sources et Genres Historiques, edited by Nathalie Kouamé, 1330–34. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2020.

Paulès Xavier
Les Wenshi Ziliao文史資料

In L’Encyclopédie Des Historiographies (Afriques, Amériques, Asies), Volume 1 : Sources et Genres Historiques, edited by Nathalie Kouamé, 1150–56. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2020

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)

David Serfass
Journal Personnel de Zhou Fohai (Le) (Zhou Fohai Riji 周佛海日記), 1937‑1945

In L’Encyclopédie Des Historiographies (Afriques, Amériques, Asies), Volume 1 : Sources et Genres Historiques, edited by Nathalie Kouamé, 927–31. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2020. https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/26112.

David Serfass
Gongwen (Documents Officiels) En Chine Républicaine (Les) (1912‑1949)

In L’Encyclopédie Des Historiographies (Afriques, Amériques, Asies), Volume 1 : Sources et Genres Historiques, edited by Nathalie Kouamé, 673–80. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2020. https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/24904.

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.

lien Ling-ling
Guanyu Funu de ‘Shishi’: Minguo Shiqi Shehui Diaocha de Xingbie Fenxi 關於婦女的「事實」:民國時期社會調查的性別分析 (‘Facts’ about Women: Gender Analysis of Social Surveys in the Republican Era)

Guanyu Funu de ‘Shishi’: Minguo Shiqi Shehui Diaocha de Xingbie Fenxi 關於婦女的「事實」:民國時期社會調查的性別分析 (‘Facts’ about Women: Gender Analysis of Social Surveys in the Republican Era).” Jindai Zhongguo Funüshi Yanjiu 近代中國婦女史研究 (Research on Women in Modern Chinese History), no. 34 (December 2019): 69–128.

Paulès Xavier
The Afterlife of Sun Yat-Sen during the Republic (1925-1949)

In Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China, edited by Alan Baumler, 158–72. London: Routledge, 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.

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

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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