{"id":178,"date":"2014-09-15T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/?p=178"},"modified":"2014-09-15T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:50:51","slug":"dr-shuhua-fans-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2014\/09\/15\/dr-shuhua-fans-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shuhua Fan&#8217;s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shuhua Fan has recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780739168509\"><em>The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering: Remaking the Humanities in China, 1924-1951 (<\/em><\/a>Lexington Books, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/09\/0739168509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/09\/0739168509-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"0739168509\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/09\/0739168509-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/09\/0739168509.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"MainContent_PC_Summaries_TB_Description\" class=\"dxeBase\">As the first comprehensive study on the subject, the book adopts a concept of \u201ccultural engineering,\u201d which is defined as a conscious design to use cultural heritage to recreate culture in order to promote a society&#8217;s development, to look at key issues in a way which accounts for interactions and initiatives on both sides and shows the difficult path toward developing common interests without neglecting tensions and conflicts, thus going beyond the various one-sided historiographies which pit Chinese against Americans or nativist rejection of modernity against cultural imperialism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. Fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Shuhua Fan has recently published The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering: Remaking the Humanities in China, 1924-1951 (Lexington Books, 2014). As the first comprehensive study on the subject, the book adopts a concept of \u201ccultural engineering,\u201d which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2014\/09\/15\/dr-shuhua-fans-new-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-publications","tag-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}