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Russell, Dora Black

(1894-1986) : Gattin von Bertrand Russell, Autorin, Feministin, Sozialistin

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Black, Dora

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History : China - Europe : England / Index of Names : Occident

Chronology Entries (4)

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1 1920-1921 Dora Russell Black talked on women's education and professional life, on socialism, marriage and free love, mainly at Beijing nü zi shi fan da xue [Women's Teacher College]. During her activities she came also in close touch with women's activists and wrote some articles for the journal 'Fu nü za zhi'. Students from the College asked for her advice, namely how to promote elementary education for girls under corrupt, male bureaucrats, and how to proceed in propagating women's rights within institutions of higher learning where they had to struggle with a repressive administration.
  • Document: Findeisen, Raoul David. Professor Luo : reflections on Bertrand Russell in China. In : Asian and African studies ; vol. 3 (1994). (Russ3, Publication)
2 1921.01.13 Lecture by Dora Russell Black on "Political ideas as influenced by political conditions" in Beijing.
  • Document: Russell, Bertrand. Uncertain paths to freedom : Russia and China, 1919-22. Bertrand Russell ; edited by Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam ; with the assistance of Andrew Bone, Albert C. Lewis. (London : Routledge, 2000). (Russell, Bertrand. Works ; vol. 15). (Russ6, Publication)
3 1921.07.06 Bertrand Russell and Dora Black gave the last lectures in Beijing.
4 1927.02.05 Russell, Bertrand ; Russell, Dora. Force in China : letter to the editor [ID D28420].
Sir, It becomes increasingly difficult to read with patience your commentaries and warnings on the present situation in China. Is it not time that all people of humane ideals and aims were frankly told that the dispatch of the large forces that have gone to China is not only likely but probably intended, to provoke a war between us and the Chinese, in which there would not be a shadow of right or justification on our side, nor any possible final issue but shameful and deserved defeat, involving the almost complete loss of our already fast diminishing trade with the Chinese. In these circumstances all those who do not demand the immediate recall of all British forces from China, and the recognition of Cantonese rights in all provinces where the Cantonese Government has jurisdiction, are doing a grave disservice, not only to the English people, but also even to the misguided British merchants out in China, who still hope to extend their trade at the bayonet point as they did at the time of the opium wars.
Not long since you were urging the Government to explain the Wanhsien incident. No English explanation has been given ; and now you speak of the necessity of large forces in order to avoid a 'repetition of the Wanhsien fiasco'. In what did the fiasco consist – in the fact that not more than one thousand Chinese were killed, and not more than one thousand Chinese houses destroyed ? Surely Mr. Chen's 'rodomontade' on Imperialism has a considerable 'bearing on the existing situation', when he is faced by the dispatch of more troops by a Power which has not hesitated to bombard without compensation or apology an open unfortified town. This act is against the laws of warfare, even where we at war with the Chinese.
The lives and persons of British nationals are in no danger. Persons of other nationality are walking about and doing business freely. It must be admitted, of course, that they have not seen fit to take part in the recent shooting of Chinese as we have done. But it is time that the six thousand odd British in Shanghai faced the situation like the British gentlemen they claim to be. They are free to return to England, or to move northward if they do not like the Cantonese regime.
The Cantonese are the accepted and functioning Government now of nine provinces, practically all th4e South and West of China. The treaty rights, about which we generously offer to 'negotiate', were force on China by war. No self-respecting Chinese Government could continue to accept them, and our trade and prestige in China stand to gain by their immediate abandonment. There is nothing outrageous or 'impossible' in the whole of the Cantonese demands. They are modern people, ready for peace and trade. They have not taken, nor will they take, unless bitterly provoked, the life of any foreigner not engaged in war with them. In fact they are a model of sweet reasonableness, in comparison with what the English would be like, had Chinese gunboats sailed up the Thames for a lark and bombarded Reading and Oxford.
Unless this Government is severely handled, telegraph agencies will soon be busy manufacturing 'riots in Shanghai', and the British troops privily engaged in the Chinese civil war, on the side of the North against Canton.
[Mr. and Mrs. Russell appear to have written their letter before Sir Austen Chamberlain spoke at Birmingham last Saturday. After reading his speech, would they still suggest that the Shanghai Defence Force is 'probably intended to provoke a war between us and the Chinese' ? Ed., Nation].
  • Document: Russell, Bertrand ; Russell, Dora. Force in China : letter to the editor. In : The Nation & Athenaeum ; Febr. 5 (1926). (Russ295, Publication)
  • Person: Russell, Bertrand

Bibliography (6)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1921 [Russell, Dora Black]. Zheng zhi si xiang yu jing ji zhuang kuang. = Political thought and economic condition. Li Xiaofeng, Fu Tong. (Beijing : Beijing da xue xin zhi shu she, 1921). [Vortrag von Dora Black in China 1921].
政治思想與經濟狀况 		Publication / Russ14
2 1921 [Russell, Bertrand ; Russell, Dora Black]. Jiang xue she huan ying luo su zhi sheng. In : Luosu yue kan di yi qi. (Shanghai : Shang wu yin shu guan, 1921). [Vortrag von Russell und Black in China 1921].
講學社歡迎羅素志盛 		Publication / Russ49
3 1921 [Russell, Bertrand ; Black, Dora]. Luosu Bolake jiang yan he kan : juan shang. Zhang Tingqian, Zhao Yuanren. (Beijing : Beijing da xue xin zhi shu she, 1921). [Vortrag von Russell und Dora Black über Philosophie in China 1921].
罗素勃拉克讲演合刊. 卷上 		Publication / Russ72
4 1921 [Russell, Bertrand ; Black, Dora]. Luosu ji Bolake jiang yan ji. Li Xiaofeng, Zong Xijun, Wu Muyan. Vol. 1-2. (Beijing : Wei yi ri bao she, 1921). (Bei jing wei yi ri bao she cong shu ; 1).
羅素及勃拉克講演集
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Shu xue luo ji. Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand. Introduction to mathematical philosophy. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1919). 數 學 邏 輯
Zhe xue wen ti. Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand. The problems of philosophy. London : Oxford University Press, 1912). 哲學問題
Xin de fen xi. Song Yangjun, Li Xiaofeng yi. Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand. The analysis of mind. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1921). 心之分析
Wu de fen xi fu shu xue luo ji. Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand. The analysis of matter. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1927). 物的分析
She hui jie gou xue. Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand. Science of social structure. (1921). In : Russell, Bertrand. Uncertain path to freedom : Russia and China 1919-22. In : Russell, Bertrand. The collected papers of Bertrand Russell. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1983-2008). 社會結構學
Jing ji ying xiang xia de zheng zhi si xiang. [Collected lectures by Russell and Black].
羅素及勃拉克講演集 		Publication / Russ79
5 1922 [Russell, Bertrand ; Russell, Dora]. She hui zhi du lun. In : Dong fang za zhi ; vol. 19, no 18 (1922). Übersetzung von Russell, Bertrand ; Russell, Dora. What makes a social system good or bad ? In : Century ; 104 (May 1922). Publication / Russ149
  • Cited by: Findeisen, Raoul David. Professor Luo : reflections on Bertrand Russell in China. In : Asian and African studies ; vol. 3 (1994). (Russ3, Published)
  • Person: Russell, Bertrand
6 1929 [Russell, Dora Black]. Nü zi yu zhi shi. Luosu fu ren ; Lin Yutang. (Shanghai : Bei xin shu ju, 1929). Übersetzung von Russell, Dora Black. Hypatia : or woman and knowledge. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925). (To-day and to-morrow ; 10).
女子与知识 		Publication / Russ13