| Description |
1 online resource (335 pages) |
| Series |
Chinesische Perspektiven: Geschichte ; Band 4 = Chinese perspectives: history |
| Contents |
Intro -- 1. The Opium Wars and China's Decline -- China and the World before 1840 -- British Opium Smuggling and Lin Zexu's Anti-Smuggling Endeavor -- The Treaty of Nanjing and Its Aftermath -- The Chinese Intellectuals' Reaction and Solution -- Social Changes in Post-War China -- 2. The Qing Government in Despair -- The Taiping Rebellion and Its Socio-Political Experiments -- The Aggressive Anglo-French Expedition Against China -- Tsarist Russia: A Grabber of Chinese Lands -- The Taiping Rebellion in Its Late Phase: Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army |
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The Fall of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace -- 3. The Lost Three Decades -- Changes of the Central and Local Governments -- The Self-Strengthening Movement (SSM) -- Reformism in Its Initial Stages -- Border Crises and the Sino-French War -- Endless Incidents Involving Christian Missionaries -- The 1895 Sino-Japanese War -- The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Cession of Taiwan -- 4. Post-1895 China: Reform, Rebellion, and Revolution -- Return of the Liao Dong Peninsula to China and the Imperialist Powers' Rat Race in the Far East -- The Scramble for China -- China's Sprouting National Capitalism |
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Sun Yat-sen and Early Revolutionaries -- The Abortive 1898 Hundred Days' Reform -- The Boxer Uprising: A Chinese Peasants' Patriotic Anti-Imperialistic Endeavor -- The Aggressive Allied Forces of the Eight Powers and Qing's Response -- The Boxer Protocol and a Fully Semi-Colonized and Semi-Feudalized China -- 5. On the Eve of Great Change -- Qing's New Policies and Ensuing Social Changes -- The British Empire's Invasion of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese Conflict in Northeast China -- Tongmenghui and the Debates Involving Revolutionaries and Conservatives |
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Boycotting American Goods and Restoring China's Rights -- Building China's Constitutional Monarchy -- The Revolutionaries in Action -- 6. The 1911 Revolution: A Blend of Success and Failure -- The Crisis-Ridden Qing -- The Huanghuagang Uprising and Railway Protection Movement -- The Wuchang Uprising -- Sun Yat-sen, President of the Nanjing Provisional Government -- The Collapse of Qing and the Rise of Yuan Shikai -- 7. China at Its Lowest Ebb: The Rule of the Beiyang Warlords -- Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen -- The Rapid Collapse of the Hongxian Reign -- China under the Warlords' Rule |
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The Growth of China's National Capitalism and the Working Class -- The New Culture and May Fourth Movements -- The Dissemination of Marxism and Socialism -- 8. The Beginning of China's Tortuous Path to Progress -- The Birth of the Communist Party of China -- The Kuomintang's First National Congress, the First United Front, and the Northern Expedition -- The Clash Between the CPC and the Kuomintang and the Failure of the First Revolutionary Civil War -- The Convergence of the Wuhan and Nanjing Nationalist Governments and the Nominal Unification of China |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024087
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China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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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 |
Zhai, Jinyi, author
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| ISBN |
9783838274416 |
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3838274415 |
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