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  • Biographical Dictionary of tutors at the dissenters private academies 1660 1729
    The Eighteenth Century, 2014
    Co-Authors: Crawford Gribben
    Abstract:

    Biographical Dictionary of tutors at the dissenters' private academies, 1660-1729, by Mark Burden, London, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, 2013, online at http:// www. english. qmul. ac.uk/drwilliams/pub s/Dictionary.htmlThe Dissenting Academies Project, based in Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Library, London, has made some of the most important recent contributions to our understanding of the social, political and religious cultures of the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. The project focuses on the educational institutions set up to provide training for dissenting clergy - and, increasingly, laymen - in the period between the Restoration and the founding of those new universities in London and the provinces which did not require a confessional test. As such, the project has suggested new ways of understanding the character and content of educational method and religious practice in early modern England, and has generated a series of new research questions related to the work of the many key intellectual figures whose formation took place within these academies - their number including Joseph Butler, Daniel Defoe, Philip Doddridge, Samuel Wesley and Isaac Watts. Since 2006, scholars associated with the project have made a series of key interventions into our reconstruction of the intellectual cultures of dissent and the environments which it inhabited. The extraordinary catalogue of events and publications on the project website bears witness to the vitality and energy of the founding directors, Isabel Rivers and David Wykes, and their colleagues. And greatly to its credit, the project has made a number of its most important outputs freely available for download - among them Mark Burden's Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters ' Private Academies, 1660-1729.It is difficult to exaggerate the significance of this publication. The Biographical Dictionary offers 91 accounts of the lives of tutors in dissenting academies between the Restoration (1660) and the opening of Philip Doddridge's academy (1729). Based on its author's unpublished PhD thesis ("Academical Learning at the Dissenters' Private Academies," University of London, 2012), and anticipating some of the themes of the project's major multi-authored print output, A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), the Biographical Dictionary outlines new ways of imagining and analysing some of the most important and least understood of English institutions and educational cultures. Burden's substantial introduction describes the significance of the Dictionary. Most of the work that has been done on the academies has depended upon the conclusions of Irene Parker's Dissenting Academies in England (1914), Herbert McLachlan's English Education under the Test Acts (1931) and J. …

  • Biographical Dictionary of tutors at the dissenters’ private academies, 1660–1729
    The Seventeenth Century, 2014
    Co-Authors: Crawford Gribben
    Abstract:

    Biographical Dictionary of tutors at the dissenters' private academies, 1660-1729, by Mark Burden, London, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, 2013, online at http:// www. english. qmul. ac.uk/drwilliams/pub s/Dictionary.htmlThe Dissenting Academies Project, based in Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Library, London, has made some of the most important recent contributions to our understanding of the social, political and religious cultures of the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. The project focuses on the educational institutions set up to provide training for dissenting clergy - and, increasingly, laymen - in the period between the Restoration and the founding of those new universities in London and the provinces which did not require a confessional test. As such, the project has suggested new ways of understanding the character and content of educational method and religious practice in early modern England, and has generated a series of new research questions related to the work of the many key intellectual figures whose formation took place within these academies - their number including Joseph Butler, Daniel Defoe, Philip Doddridge, Samuel Wesley and Isaac Watts. Since 2006, scholars associated with the project have made a series of key interventions into our reconstruction of the intellectual cultures of dissent and the environments which it inhabited. The extraordinary catalogue of events and publications on the project website bears witness to the vitality and energy of the founding directors, Isabel Rivers and David Wykes, and their colleagues. And greatly to its credit, the project has made a number of its most important outputs freely available for download - among them Mark Burden's Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters ' Private Academies, 1660-1729.It is difficult to exaggerate the significance of this publication. The Biographical Dictionary offers 91 accounts of the lives of tutors in dissenting academies between the Restoration (1660) and the opening of Philip Doddridge's academy (1729). Based on its author's unpublished PhD thesis ("Academical Learning at the Dissenters' Private Academies," University of London, 2012), and anticipating some of the themes of the project's major multi-authored print output, A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), the Biographical Dictionary outlines new ways of imagining and analysing some of the most important and least understood of English institutions and educational cultures. Burden's substantial introduction describes the significance of the Dictionary. Most of the work that has been done on the academies has depended upon the conclusions of Irene Parker's Dissenting Academies in England (1914), Herbert McLachlan's English Education under the Test Acts (1931) and J. …

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  • Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary ; Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War [Book Review]
    China Journal, 2005
    Co-Authors: Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng
    Abstract:

    Publishers details for: Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. xviii + 279 pp. US$89.95/ 50.99 (hardcover). Publishers details for: Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War, by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. xli + 191 pp. US$49.95 (hardcover).

  • Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary & Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War
    China Journal, 2005
    Co-Authors: Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng
    Abstract:

    Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. xviii + 279 pp. US$89.95/ £50.99 (hardcover). Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War, by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. xli + 191 pp. US$49.95 (hardcover). Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary aims, as the book's title suggests, to provide biographies of major Chinese political leaders from the Opium War to the beginning of the 21st century. It has a broader time frame than other reference works of this kind and includes an introductory essay on the characteristics of Chinese political leadership and a chronology of modern Chinese history from 1839 to 2001. The Dictionary provides a snapshot of modern Chinese history in less than 300 pages. The coverage of political leaders of the last three decades, such as Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Li Denghui and lien Chan, is the Dictionary's strength. In addition, it contains information on such former leaders as Jiang Qing and Zhang Xueliang. However, the book leaves out some important political leaders of modern China, such as Chen Lifu, Kang Sheng, the Dalai Lama and Chen Shuibian, among others, and some of the entries fail to incorporate information from the latest source materials. For instance, on Lin Biao's role in the Korean War, the Dictionary's entry states: "At the outset of the Korean War, he was the commander-in-chief of the Chinese volunteer forces and soon was wounded and relieved by Peng Dehuai" (p. 104). The newly released Korean War records suggest that Lin declined the post of commander-in-chief and did not lead the Chinese forces into Korea. In sum, Political Leaders of Modern China is no more than a Biographical Dictionary in miniature. Its 102 entries provide a concise guide to major figures of modern Chinese history and its inclusion of present political leaders reflects the rapid changeover in Chinese politics, but readers will still need to use other sources for more detailed accounts. Leung's second book, Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War, provides entries on "the key players on both sides, the political parties and other institutions, major campaigns and battles, and outsiders who intervened to support one side or the other" (p. ix). In the introduction, Leung analyzes the war from two perspectives-one very focused on the 1945-49 period and a macroscopic perspective looking broadly at the period 1921-49. …