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1 online resource (455 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Romanization, Names, and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Late Imperial China (1644-1911) -- Chapter 1 Early to Mid-Qing -- Rise of Qing: Conquest, Consolidation, and Preservation -- 1.1 Shunzhi's Head-Shaving Decree (1645) -- 1.2 Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor (1670) -- 1.3 Kangxi's Edict Regarding Wu Sangui (1674) -- 1.4 Qing Rulers Promoting and Preserving Manchu Identity (1635-1850) -- 1.5 Qing's 29 Regulations for Reorganizing Tibet (1792) -- Qing China and Relations With Europe |
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1.6 Kangxi's Edict of Toleration (March 20, 1692) -- 1.7 Open Letter From Kangxi to Pope Clement XI (October 31, 1716) -- 1.8 Letter From King George III to the Emperor of China (1792) -- 1.9 Journal Entries of Lord Macartney During His Journey to China (1793-1794) -- 1.10 Qianlong's Edict to King George III of England (September 23, 1793) -- Education, Examinations, and Literature -- 1.11 Pu Songling's "Three Genii" (c. 1679) -- 1.12 Eight-Legged Essay Civil Service Examination (1818) -- 1.13 Description of the Provincial Examination (c. 1845) -- 1.14 Lan Dingyuan on Female Education (1712) |
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Chapter 2 The Opium War -- Trade in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou -- 2.1 Description of European Factories in Guangzhou (1825-1844) -- 2.2 Deqing's Memorial on the Responsibilities of the Gonghang (March 23, 1813) -- 2.3 Rules Regulating Foreign Trading in Guangzhou (1832-1835) -- Opium in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou -- 2.4 Opium and Tea Trade With China -- 2.5 Huang Juezi on the Evil of Opium (June 2, 1838) -- 2.6 The Opium Question Among Westerners in China (1836-1837) -- Commissioner Lin Zexu and the Opium War |
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2.7 Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu's Pronouncement to the Foreigners (March 18, 1839) -- 2.8 Charles Elliot's Public Notice to British Subjects (March 27, 1839) -- 2.9 Letter From Lin Zexu to His Wife (1839) -- 2.10 Letter From Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria (July 19, 1839) -- Popular Responses and Diplomatic Resolutions to the Opium War -- 2.11 Guangdong Residents' Denunciation of the British (1841) -- 2.12 British Parliamentary Discussion of the Resolution on the "Suppression of the Opium Trade" (April 4, 1843) -- 2.13 Treaty of Nanjing (1842) |
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Chapter 3 Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rebellions and Qing Responses -- Taiping Rebellion -- 3.1 Taiping Anti-Manchu Proclamation (1852) -- 3.2 Brief Record of the Taiping's Arrival in Nanjing (March 1853) -- 3.3 Taiping Ten Commandments (1852) -- 3.4 Taiping Plan for Reorganizing Chinese Society (1853) -- 3.5 Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty (1853) -- Muslim Rebellions -- 3.6 Panthay Rebellion Summons to Arms (1868) -- 3.7 Rumors of a Tungan Massacre (1864) -- 3.8 Robert Shaw's Visit to Yarkand and Kashgar (March 3, 1870) -- Self-Strengthening Movement |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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3.9 Feng Guifen on the Adoption of Western Learning (1860) |
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History.
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history (discipline)
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Sources
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Atwill, Yurong Y
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| ISBN |
9780429560347 |
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0429560346 |
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9780367210922 |
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0367210924 |
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9780429265327 |
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0429265328 |
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