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Title The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 / edited by Willard J. Peterson
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 753 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The Cambridge history of China ; v. 9, pt. 1
Cambridge history of China ; v. 9, pt. 1
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes General editors : Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-713) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed February 21, 2020)
Subject Qing Dynasty (China)
SUBJECT China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024078
Subject China.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Peterson, Willard J., editor
Twitchett, Denis Crispin, 1925-2006, editor
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor
ISBN 1139053531
9781139053532