Format:
1 online resource (374 pages)
ISBN:
9780791477427
Content:
Intro -- CHINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM,1840-1949 -- Contents -- PREFACE: The "Century of Humiliation"as a Retrospective Icon -- Transliteration and Word Order -- 1. International Relations,History, and "Images" -- THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AND CHINA:A CHALLENGE OF TOPIC AND DISCIPLINARITY -- CULTURE AND IDENTITY -- RACE -- IMAGES -- SOURCES -- 2. Humiliations Establishedin the First and Second Opium Wars -- COLLIDING IMAGES -- THE FIRST OPIUM WAR (1840-1842) -- HUMILIATION AND THE UNEQUAL TREATIES SYSTEM -- CHINESE RESPONSES TO DEFEAT -- CHINESE EMIGRATION BECOMESAN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE -- THE SECOND OPIUM WAR (1857-1860) -- GEOCULTURAL POLITICS AND THE BURNING OF THE SUMMER PALACE -- RUSSIA'S DRIVE TO THE AMUR BASIN AND VLADIVOSTOK -- 3. Humiliations Maintained -- EFFECTS AND AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND OPIUM WAR -- "SELF-STRENGTHENING" ADVOCATES IN CHINA -- CHINESE IMMIGRATION ISSUES IN THEUNITED STATES AND THE "HEATHEN CHINEE" -- THE "CHINESE THREAT" IN AUSTRALASIA -- ONGOING AND NEW THREATS TO CHINA IN ASIA -- POLITICAL RESTRICTIONS IN CALIFORNIA -- CHINESE DIPLOMACY IN THE WEST -- 4. China's Attempted "Awakening" -- CHINA'S MILITARY REVIVAL -- AUSTRALASIAN INVASION SCARES AND POLITICAL DEBATES -- AMERICAN SOCIAL DARWINISMAND ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLITICS -- RUSSIAN RESPONSES TO CHINA -- AN ANGLO-CHINESE ALLIANCE? -- THE "MARCH OF THE MONGOL"AND "THE CHINESE QUESTION" -- CHINESE VOICES ON "CHINA'S AWAKENING" -- 5. China's Further Humiliations -- THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR OF 1894-1895 -- EASTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR -- WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR -- REFORMIST ANALYSIS AND IMPERIAL LEADERSHIP -- "SLICED LIKE A WATER-MELON" -- THE BOXER REVOLT -- AUTUMNAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BOXER REVOLT -- CHINESE PERSPECTIVES -- REEMERGENCE OF A CHINA THREAT PERCEPTION -- RUSSIAN GEOPOLITICS -- XINZHENG REFORMS AND CHINESE NATIONALISM.
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ISBN 9780791476277
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780791476277
Language:
English
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