| The Cambridge History of China: Volume 10, Late Ch'ing 1800 1911, Part 1 Contributor(s): Fairbank, J. (Author), Fairbank, John King (Editor), Twitchett, Denis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521214475 ISBN-13: 9780521214476 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $151.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 951.03 |
| LCCN: 76029852 |
| Series: Cambridge History of China |
| Physical Information: 1.85" H x 6.44" W x 9.06" (2.58 lbs) 730 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Contributors 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. 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. |
