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Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part I

Series The Cambridge History of China, Volume 10, Part 1

Edited by John K. Fairbank

Publication Date 1978

Hardback ISBN-10 0521214475

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521214476

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521214476

Overview

This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government within China. Contributors to this volume study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. Many of the accounts break new ground; all are based on fresh research. This volume has been designed both to be consulted as a work of reference and to be read continuously. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; 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. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each author's account is based.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part I in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge History of China Vol. 10, part 1: Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part I

Frontmatter

Introduction: the old order by John K. Fairbank

Ch'ing Inner Asia c. 1800 by Joseph Fletcher

Dynastic decline and the roots of rebellion by Susan Mann Jones and Philip A. Kuhn

The Canton trade and the Opium War by Frederic Wakeman

The creation of the treaty system by John K. Fairbank

The Taiping Rebellion by Philip A. Kuhn

Sino-Russian relations, 1800–62 by Joseph Fletcher

The heyday of the Ch'ing order in Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet by Joseph Fletcher

The Ch'ing Restoration by Kwang-Ching Liu

Self-strengthening: the pursuit of Western technology by Ting-yee Kuo and Kwang-Ching Liu

Christian missions and their impact to 1900 by Paul A. Cohen

Bibliographical essays

Bibliography

Genealogical chart

Glossary

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