Rereading Modern Chinese History: 8 (Brill's Humanities in China Library) - Hardcover

Weizheng, Zhu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004293302 ISBN 13: 9789004293304

Publisher: Brill, 2015

Synopsis

Rereading Modern Chinese History is a collection of short essays on aspects of the history of the Qing dynasty, a regime dominated by Manchus that ruled China from 1644 to 1911. Using sources from that period and earlier it addresses key themes on the nature of Qing rule. These include the defeat by the British in the Opium Wars, the twin-track administration of Manchus and Han Chinese, the rise of Chinese military leaders in southern China, the purchase of office and endemic corruption, the challenge of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the failure of political reform. There are new insights on all the Qing emperors and the Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled China between 1861 and 1908.

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Product Description:

"Rereading Modern Chinese History" is a collection of short essays on aspects of the history of the Qing dynasty, a regime dominated by Manchus that ruled China from 1644 to 1911. Using sources from that period and earlier, the book addresses key themes on the nature of Qing rule.

About the Author:

Zhu Weizheng+ (1936 2012) was Professor of History at Fudan University, China. He published monographs and many articles on Chinese cultural history, Chinese intellectual history and Chinese Confucian studies.

Michael Dillon, PhD. (1976), former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies University of Durham. Most recent books are China: a Modern History (I.B. Tauris, 2010); Deng Xiaoping: The Man Who Made Modern China (I.B. Tauris, 2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004293302
• ISBN 13: 9789004293304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Dillon Michael