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Student activism and channels of political communication in 1126

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2020

Chu Ming-kin
Chu Ming-kin*
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The University of Hong Kong
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mk2chu@hku.hk
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Abstract

How did students at the Imperial University (taixue 太學) in the late Northern Song comment on politics in response to political crises caused by the Jurchen invasion and what enabled them to do so? Through a comparison of 14 memorials submitted by university students and personnel to Emperor Qinzong, this paper examines the ways in which students submitted their petitions, the responsiveness of the court towards their appeals, students’ political sensitivities as well as the channels by which they accessed political information. A close examination of the memorials reveals that students were highly responsive to the rapidly changing political circumstances. Such responsiveness, I would argue, owes much to the presence of different communication channels that facilitated the circulation of political information within literati circles.

Keywords

Student activismPolitical communicationNorthern SongChinese historyMemorials
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , October 2020 , pp. 449 - 478
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2020

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Footnotes

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I wrote this article as part of my work on the research projects “A study of the epistolary writings of Sun Di” (Project Code: 201709159013) funded by HKU and “Literati networks and political culture in the early Southern Song: a study of the social networks of Sun Di and Li Gang” (Project Number: 27601818) funded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professors Richard L. Davis, Sarah Schneewind, and Ho Koon-wan for their critical reading of the draft version of this paper as well as their comments and encouragement. I am also indebted to the two anonymous reviewers for the BSOAS for their helpful comments and suggestions. Dates in this article correspond to the Chinese lunar calendar. The years of the Song court calendar are converted into the corresponding Western year. Thus 1126/2/5 stands for the fifth day in the second month of the first year of the Jingkang reign period of Song Qinzong.

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