Format:
Online-Ressource (xxv, 713 p)
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digital, PDF file
Edition:
Online-Ausg. c2008 Cambridge histories online
ISBN:
9781139053532
Content:
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between emperors and their servitors, between Manchus and non-Manchu populations, between various elite groups, between competing regional interests, between merchant networks and agricultural producers, between rural and urban interests, and, at work among all these tensions, between the old and new. This volume presents the changes underway in this period prior to the advent of Western imperialist military power
Content:
State buildings before 1644 / Gertraude Roth Li -- The Shun-chih reign / Jerry Dennerline -- The K'ang-hsi reign / Jonathan Spence -- The Yung-cheng reign / Madeleine Zelin -- The Ch'ien-lung reign / Alexander Woodside -- The conquest elite of the Ch'ing Empire / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- The social roles of literati in early to mid-Ch'ing / Benjamin A. Elman -- Women, families, and gender relations / Susan Mann -- Social stability and social change / William T. Rowe -- Economic developments, 1644-1800 / Ramon H. Myers and Yeh-Chien Wang
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 10 July, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 051146746X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511467462
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521243346
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521243346
