| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 713 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of China ; volume 10, part 1 |
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Cambridge history of China ; v. 10, pt. 1.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the old order / John K. Fairbank -- Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800 / Joseph Fletcher -- Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion / Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn -- The Canton trade and the Opium War / Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- The creation of the treaty system / John K. Fairbank -- The Taiping Rebellion / Philip A. Kuhn -- Sino-Russian relations, 1800-62 / Joseph Fletcher -- The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet / Joseph Fletcher -- The Ch'ing Restoration / Kwang-Ching Liu -- Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology / Ting-yee Kuo and Kwang-Ching Liu -- Christian missions and their impact to 1900 / Paul A. Cohen |
| Summary |
This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each author's account is based |
| Notes |
General editors : Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-713) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, November 5, 2020) |
| Subject |
Qing Dynasty (China)
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024078
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
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Twitchett, Denis Crispin, 1925-2006.
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| ISBN |
9781139054775 |
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1139054775 |
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