| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's humanities in China library ; Volume 8 |
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Brill's humanities in China library ; Volume 8.
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| Contents |
Series Editors' Foreword; Translator's Introduction; Part 1 Historical Uncertainties; Essay 1 'Backward Therefore Beaten'?; Essay 2 Questioning the Theory of the 'Two Cannons'; Essay 3 Three Questions on 'Opening Their Eyes and Seeing the World'; 1 Who First Gazed on the Other Side of the World?; 2 Can It Be That the Chinese Could Only Open Their Eyes When They Saw Silver?; 3 Can It Be Said That the Ancestors Closed Their Eyes and Blocked Their Ears?; Essay 4 The Logic of 'Being Modernised'; Essay 5 Qing History and Modern History; Essay 6 The Necessity of Rereading Modern History |
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Part 2 Looking BackEssay 7 Looking Back on the History of 'Reform' in the Qing Dynasty; Essay 8 Origins of 'Reform'; Essay 9 Resurrecting the 'Statement of Accounts' Tax Evasion Case 1661; Essay 10 'A Tertius is Not Worth a Single Cent'; Essay 11 Manchus Inside, Han Outside and the Emphasis on Civil Over Military Affairs; Essay 12 Manchu Han Twin-Track System (1); Essay 13 Manchu-Han 'Twin-Track System' (2); Essay 14 Change and Interchange of Heaven and Man; Essay 15 Looking Back at the Reign of the Yongzheng Emperor from the Qianlong Period |
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Essay 16 Fake Draft Memorial in the Name of Sun JiaganEssay 17 Literary Inquisition after the Death of Mao Qiling; Essay 18 Official History, Unofficial History and Jottings in the Qing Dynasty; Part 3 On Reform or Modernisation; Essay 19 Dealing with Corruption under the Jiaqing Emperor; Essay 20 Looking at the Jiaqing 'Reforms' or 'Modernisation'; Essay 21 The Emperor's Penitential Decree; Essay 22 The Qing Emperor Makes a Show of Conciliating the British Ambassador; Essay 23 Napoleon Criticises the British; Essay 24 The Jiaqing Emperor and Napoleon |
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Essay 25 Purchase of Office during the Manchu Qing DynastyEssay 26 The Systematisation of Purchase of Office in the 'High Qing'; Essay 27 'Varieties' of Purchase of Office; Essay 28 The Promotion of Purchasing Office; Essay 29 The Buying and Selling of Office in Fiction; Essay 30 Honest Officials and the Purchase of Office; Essay 31 Bao Shichen's on Accumulated Wealth (Shuochu); Part 4 The History of Opium; Essay 32 Opium from Medicine to Narcotic; Essay 33 Another Look at the Opium War; Essay 34 Was the Daoguang Emperor 'Pitiful'?; Essay 35 Lin Zexu and Gong Zizhen |
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Essay 36 It is Necessary to Say More about Gong ZizhenEssay 37 'Attacking Poison with Poison'; Essay 38 Residual Doubts and Queries after the Opium War; Part 5 Gods and Sages; Essay 39 'The Way of the Gods Established the Teachings' in the Qing Dynasty; Essay 40 The 'Present Holy Sage' in Qing History; Essay 41 How Did Military Sages Prevail over Civilian Sages?; Essay 42 Ji Yun and 'Basing Religious Teachings on the Divine Way'; Essay 43 The Dual Effect of 'Basing Religious Teachings on the Divine Way'; Essay 44 The Defeated Heavenly Kingdom; Essay 45 Issachar Roberts and Hong Xiuquan |
| Summary |
Rereading Modern Chinese History is a collection of short essays on aspects of the history of the Qing dynasty, a regime dominated by Manchus that ruled China from 1644 to 1911. Using sources from that period and earlier, the book addresses key themes on the nature of Qing rule |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English translation from Chinese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Qing Dynasty (China)
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Qingdynastie
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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 |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dillon, Michael, 1949- translator.
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| ISBN |
9789004293311 |
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9004293310 |
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