Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 713 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139054775
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015)
,
Introduction: the old order
,
Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800
,
Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion
,
The Canton trade and the Opium War
,
The creation of the treaty system
,
The Taiping Rebellion
,
Sino-Russian relations, 1800-62
,
The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet
,
The Ch'ing Restoration
,
Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology
,
Christian missions and their impact to 1900
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521214476
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521214476
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521214476
