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Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911

Series The Cambridge History of China, Volume 11, Part 2

Edited by Jonh K. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu

Publication Date 1980

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521220293

Hardback ISBN-10 0521220297

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521220293

Overview

This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. The contributors focus on commercial and technological growth, foreign relations, the stimulation of Chinese intellectual life by the outside world, and military triumphs and disasters. The impact of Japan is emphasized and there is consideration of the movements of reform and revolution in the two decades before 1911. As the contributors to this volume show, the effects of the accelerating changes were to fragment the old ruling class and the ancient monarchy, finally bringing the Chinese people face to face with the challenges of the new century. 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. 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 bibliographical essay decribing 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 in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge History of China Vol. 11, part 2: Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911

Frontmatter

Economic trends in the late Ch'ing empire, 1870–1911 by Albert Feuerwerker

Late Ch'ing foreign relations, 1866–1905 by Immanuel C. Y. Hsu

Changing Chinese views of Western relations, 1840–95 by Yen-P'ing Hao and Erh-min Wang

The military challenge: the north-west and the coast by Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard J. Smith

Intellectual change and the reform movement, 1890–8 by Hao Chang

Japan and the chinese revolution of 1911 by Marius B. Jansen

Political and institutional reform 1901–11 by Chuzo Ichiko

Government, merchants and industry to 1911 by Wellington K. K. Chan

The republican revolutionary movement by Michael Gasster

Currents of social change by Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere

Bibliographical essays

Bibliography

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