| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 754 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of China ; volume 11, part 2 |
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Cambridge history of China ; v. 11, pt. 2.
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| Contents |
Economic trends in the late Ch'ing empire, 1870-1911 / Albert Feuerwerker -- Late Ch'ing foreign relations, 1866-1905 / Immanuel C.Y. Hsu -- Changing Chinese views of Western relations, 1840-95 / Yen-P'ing Hao and Erh-min Wang -- The military challenge: the north-west and the coast / Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard J. Smith -- Intellectual change and the reform movement, 1890-8 / Hao Chang -- Japan and the chinese revolution of 1911 / Marius Jansen -- Political and institutional reform 1901-11 / Chuzo Ichiko -- Government, merchants and industry to 1911 / Wellington K.K. Chan -- The republican revolutionary movement / Michael Gasster -- Currents of social change / Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere |
| Summary |
This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. The contributors focus on commercial and technological growth, foreign relations, the stimulation of Chinese intellectual life by the outside world, and military triumphs and disasters. They show that the effects of the accelerating changes were to fragment the old ruling class and the ancient monarchy, finally bringing the Chinese people face to face with the challenges of the new century. 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 |
| Notes |
General editors : Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-682) |
| Notes |
Includes glossary and index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, November 5, 2020) |
| Subject |
Qing Dynasty (China)
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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 |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor.
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Liu, Kwang-Ching, 1921-2006, editor.
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Twitchett, Denis Crispin, 1925-2006.
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| ISBN |
9781139054782 |
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1139054783 |
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