Routledge, 2019. — 162 p. The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 255 p. A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 254 p. A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for...
Columbia University Press, 2008. — 350 p. At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and sugar for export on world markets. This book examines this remarkable transformation....
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 424 p. From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. — 180 p. The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book...
Stanford University Press, 2005. — 278 p. The Muslim-led Panthay Rebellion was one of five mid-nineteenth-century rebellions to threaten the Chinese imperial court. The Chinese Sultanate begins by contrasting the views of Yunnan held by the imperial center with local and indigenous perspectives, in particular looking at the strong ties the Muslim Yunnanese had with Southeast...
Harvard University Press, 1971. — 287 p. One of the last great Confucians of imperial China, Chang Chih-tung (1837–1909) regarded Western-inspired educational reform as fundamental to preserving the Chinese state. In this monograph, William Ayers examines Chang’s extensive proposals for nationwide reform which culminated in the epoch-making abolition of the examination system...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 250 p. Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on...
Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2022. — 279 p. This book is about the “Hundred-Word Eulogy,” a 100-character praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant Islamic texts. The book has become quite revered by many Muslim...
Harvard University Press, 1964. — 422 p. In the middle of the 19th century, a complex interplay of domestic and foreign influences propelled China into taking the first halting steps toward a reassessment of her rabidly isolationist policies. Masataka Banno’s intensive study concentrates on the climactic three-year period that saw the establishment of a prototype foreign...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 277 p. In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imperialist aggression. At the same time, the enthronement of a series of children brought the question of reconstruction into the heart of the capital. Chinese scholars, Manchu and Mongolian...
Harvard University Press, 1958. — 212 p. This book shows the general course of the main categories of Chinese revenue during the years 1853-1864. It will be noticed that the revenue from.the three main sources - from the land tax, the salt monopoly, and the regular. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Harvest Book, 1975. — 352 p. An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.
Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. — 280 p. This book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written...
Roaring Brook Press, 2021. — 176 p. From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At...
Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 489 p. With hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information Yin Yu Tang tells the history of a traditional Chinese house and the fascinating stories of its occupants. In the late Qing dynasty, around the year 1800, a prosperous Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a remote village southwest of Shanghai. He named the house...
Cornell University Press, 1976. — 259 p. Datong. The Review of the Times. Sun Yat-sen. Socialism in Japan before 1906. Liang Qi-chao. The Socialism of The People's Journal, 1905-1906. The Controversy on Social Policies between Liang Qi-chao and the Revolutionary Alliance. 1907. Names of Chinese and Japanese Organizations. Names of Chinese and Japanese Journals, Books, and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 252 p. In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. The...
Penguin Books, 2016. — 512 p. In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly...
Brill, 1993. — v, 321 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 29). This collection of essays written by his former students and colleagues represent the many foci of interest that Erik Zürcher has shared with them during his tenure as professor at Leiden University. They include discussions of Confucian philosophy, Buddhist and Christian polemics, the spread of Jesuit literature and...
Routledge, 2010. — 504 p. Translations, the first based largely on that in Richard Willes, History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (1577), the second derived from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624), the third by the editor from three sixteenth-century Spanish versions. With appendices on various matters, including a Chinese glossary and a table of Chinese dynasties and...
Routledge, 2014. — 295 p. What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline....
Cambridge (Mass.), London: Harvard University Press, 2007. — xii, 496 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-02448-9, 978-0-674-03036-7. The first narrative history of the Jesuits’ mission from 1579 until the proscription of Christianity in China in 1724, this study is also the first to use extensive documentation of the enterprise found in Lisbon and Rome. The peril of travel in the premodern...
University of California Press, 2006. — 560 p. Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late...
Bloomsbury Press, 2013. — 240 p. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford’s Bodleian Library—where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake—yet records confirmed...
Harvard University Press, 1993. — 412 p. In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fund-raising...
Routledge, 2005. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0415345065, 9780415345064. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship. It argues...
University of California Press, 1999. — 345 p. The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 336 p. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire―a millennium and a half in the making―was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 416 p. On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt. Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was...
Stanford University Press, 1931. — 223 p. Emperor Guangxu (born 1871, reigned 1875–1908) ordered a series of reforms aimed at making sweeping social and institutional changes. He did this in response to severe weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894–1895, not long after the First (1839–1842) and Second (1856–1860) Opium Wars; this...
University of Washington Press, 2020. — 240 p. One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–1424) gained renown for constructing Beijing's magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world's largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of...
Brill, 2017. — 295 p. — (East and West 1). In Companions in Geography Mario Cams revisits the early 18th century mapping of Qing China, without doubt one of the largest cartographic endeavours of the early modern world. Commonly seen as a Jesuit initiative, the project appears here as the result of a convergence of interests among the French Academy of Sciences, the Jesuit...
Captivating History Press, 2020. — 199 p. Victorian Great Britain was the most technologically and economically developed country in the world at the time. As such, it had the power to protect its interests. With the discovery of new trade routes in the East, and with the foundation of the East India Company, Britain became addicted to the luxurious and exotic items from China....
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. — 182 p. Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators_these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a vivid Counterpoint. Violating...
Routledge, 2016. — 374 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). This second collection of studies by Hok-lam Chan focuses on the person and the image of Ming Taizu, the founder of the Ming dynasty, and a powerful, brutal and autocratic emperor who has had a significant impact not only in late imperial China, but also in East Asia, over the last six centuries. Individual studies look...
Harvard University Press, 1971. — 342 p. Prologue. The Intellectual Setting. K’ang Yu-wei’s Intellectual Role in the Late Nineteenth Century. Liang Ch’i-ch’ao’s Early Life and Intellectual Background. The Foundation of Liang’s Reformist Thought, 1896–1898. Liang in Exile. The New Citizen. Reform versus Revolution: Liang’s Attitudes toward Politics and Tradition. The New Citizen...
Harvard University Press, 1964. — 340 p. The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of many conflicts. Mr. Chang examines the development of this trading system and the British trade in China--a trade so valuable to the British that it was worth a war. He shows us the motives...
Knopf, 2013. — 495 p. Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. — 550 p. Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These tours were exercises in political theater that took the Manchu emperor through one of the Qing empire's most prosperous regions. This study elucidates the tensions and the constant negotiations...
Brill, 2015. — 495 p. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library 33). Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to one of the main Buddhist mountain of China in late imperial and Republican times (1800-1940). In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of...
Stanford University Press, 1972. — 270 p. Originally published in 1961, this widely acclaimed study of one of the pivotal figures of modern Chinese history has been completely revised to incorporate the results of recent research by Western and Chinese scholars and the publication of important archival materials in Taiwan and Great Britain. Youth, 1859-1882. Korea, 1882-1895....
Brill, 2011. — 447 p. — (Brill's Humanities in China Library 2). Touches of History represents a groundbreaking attempt to return to a study of "May Fourth" that is solidly grounded in historical fact. Favouring smaller stories over grand narratives, concentrating on unknown, marginal materials rather than familiar key documents, and highlighting "May Fourth"'s indebtedness to...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. — xix, 342 p. — (Studies in social inequality.) — ISBN: 9781503601635. This book represents an intellectual endeavor to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods and produce a holistic understanding and history of human experience. It would not have been completed without the many teachers, colleagues, friends, and family who...
Hong Kong University Press, 2017. — 241 p. Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defense of British national honor, and cultural conflicts between 'progressive' Britain and 'backward' China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 437 p. The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial examinations in Ming China, breaking through the paradigm of pure literature research. This book presents an important practice in adjusting the pattern of literary research. The contents of this...
Routledge, 2019. — 290 p. "The Hidden Land" means that a large amount of land in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) was "hidden" or unknown, since the land was managed by both the administrative and the military systems, and only the former was made public while the latter was being hidden due to confidentiality issues. This is one of the author’s creative findings as a result of his...
Pantheon Books, 1976. — 412 p. Discussions of key historical events, developments, and key personalities in Late Imperial Qing China between 1839 and 1911 are followed by selected illustrative documents. Glossary. Bibliographies. The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century. The First Opium War, fought in 1839–1842...
Hong Kong University Press, 2019. — 168 p. In this stunning reassessment, Nicole T. C. Chiang argues that the famous Qianlong art collection is really ‘the collection of the imperial household in the Qianlong reign’. The distinction is significant because it strips away the modern, Eurocentric preconceptions that have led scholars to misconstrue the size of the collection, the...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 170 p. This work presents for the first time in English the inner world of Chinese intellectuals in the period from 1644 to 1911. The author, Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, was a prominent figure in modern China, and his book achieved the fame of something like a modern classic.
Brill, 2017. — 312 p. — (Brill's Studies in Maritime History 3). This works tells a vivid story of how private Chinese traders and junk masters in in Southern China waters defended themselves, over 100 years ago, against foreign economic power.
Stanford University Press, 2004. — 416 p. This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks and movable type exerted a profound influence on Chinese society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the rise and impact of print culture from both economic and cultural perspectives. In...
Columbia University Press, 1965. — 256 p. Chang Chien (1853-1926) was a Chinese industrialist and social reformer who was chiefly concerned with finding a means to strengthen the Chinese nation at a time when it was threatened by foreign imperialism. His pragmatic reforms offered an alternative to the political methods of others. Very few scholarly biographies of Chinese...
Routledge, 1993. — 352 p. This is a study of Li Hung-Chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China's modernisation; the Confucian as a patriot and pragmatist; his formative years, 1823-1866; and other aspects of his personal life.
Walter de Gruyter, 1967. — 245 p. The Dungan Revolt (1862–1878) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War was a war fought in 19th-century western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875) of the Qing dynasty. The term sometimes includes the Panthay Rebellion in Yunnan, which occurred during the same period. However, this article relates specifically to the...
The History Press, 2014. — 540 p. This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice. From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the...
The History Press, 2011. — 543 p. This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice. From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the study...
New York, 1915. — 254 p. Пол Клемментс был одним из свидетелей восстания ихэтуаней в Китае. В его работе "Боксёрское восстание" отражение взгляды человека западной цивилизации на антиевропейское китайское восстание.
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 288 p. Empire of Great Brightness is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion...
Polity Press, 1991. — 234 p. This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes "superfluous things"--the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China--and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs...
Harvard University Press, 1963. — 405 p. By the 1840s China became a major destination for Protestant missionaries from Europe and the United States. Catholic missionaries, who had been banned for a time, returned a few decades later. It is difficult to determine an exact number, but historian Kathleen Lodwick estimates that some 50,000 foreigners served in mission work in...
London and New York: Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — xii, 226 p. — (Critical Asian scholarship). — ISBN: 0203409825. In this absorbing volume by one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, Paul Cohen consistently argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, training his critical spotlight alternately on Western...
Columbia University Press, 1997. — 437 p. Acknowledgements. The boxers as an event. The boxer uprising a narrative reconstructed past. The boxers as experience. The boxers as a myth.
Routledge, 2006. — 155 p. Providing original insights into Chinese military history, Nicola Di Cosmo gives an annotated translation of the only known military diary in pre-modern Chinese history, providing fresh and extensive information on the inner workings of the Ch'ing army. The personal experience of the author, a young Manchu officer fighting in inhospitable South-Western...
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 1977. — 135 p. Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga, was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan, and established a dynasty which ruled the island as the Kingdom of...
Routledge, 2012. — 256 p. Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites....
University of Washington Press, 2009. — 365 p. Illuminating the complicated history of the struggle between the Zunghar Mongols and China over Tibet and the rise of Sichuan's importance as a key strategic area during China's last dynasty, Yingcong Dai explores the intersections of political and social history. Yingcong Dai is associate professor of history at William Paterson...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 665 p. The White Lotus War (1796-1804) in central China marked the end of the Qing dynasty's golden age and the fatal weakening of the imperial system itself. What started as a local rebellion grew into a serious political crisis, as the central government was no longer able to operate its military machine. Yingcong Dai's comprehensive...
Hong Kong University Press, 2019. — 237 p. The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the story of how a complicated and much-maligned group of people struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. Rulers of the Qing dynasty were determined to ensure the...
Routledge, 2021. — 200 p. This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was...
University of California Press, 1997. — 320 p. John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of a large number of native sons...
University of Hawaii Press, 2002 - 207 p. ISBN10: 082482475X ISBN13: 9780824824754 (eng) From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national...
University of California Press, 1984. — 359 p. This book goodly study the Chinese professional bureaucrats and military elites in the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 295 p. This important contribution to imperial Chinese history illuminates the basic concerns of the Ming state. Eminent scholar John W. Dardess shows in fascinating detail how Emperor Jiajing and his grand secretaries managed affairs of state and how personal ambition and policy differences combined to animate imperial political life....
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 172 p. This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. — 572 p. This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ming China’s pursuit of national security along its 1,700 miles of northern frontier. Drawing on a wealth of original sources, John Dardess vividly portrays how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions in real time...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 282 p. Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that perception. In this path-breaking study, Jenny Huangfu Day interweaves the history of...
University of Washington Press, 2013. — 224 p. So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and...
Brill Academic, 2003. — 260 p. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library 1). In the seventeenth century the Manchu conquered the whole of China, replacing the Ming dynasty. The original Manchu and Mongol documents selected for the this publication, translated and amply annotated, provide fascinating new information about the relations between Manchus and Mongols before the Manchu conquest...
Brill, 2015. — viii, 270 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 119). There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth through...
Brill, 2021. — 226 p. — (Women and Gender in China Studies 11). In Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature, Jessica Dvorak Moyer compares depictions of household space and women’s networks in texts across a range of genres from about 1600 to 1800 C.E. Analyzing vernacular transformations of classical source texts as well as vernacular stories...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 284 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 452). Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth century with what seemed, at the time, to be straightforward policies to clean up the bureaucracy: a regulation about deadlines here, a...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 271 p. This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880-1885 adds a new dimension to our understanding of China's response to the West in the nineteenth century. The implicit threat presented by French efforts to extend her control into northern Vietnam was the catalyst in Chinese policy decisions, and...
Stanford University Press, 2001, — 580 p. — ISBN: 0804746842. This book, the first in any language to be based mainly on Manchu documents, supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation. Drawing on recent critical notions of ethnicity, the author explores the evolution of the "Eight Banners", a unique Manchu system of social and...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — ISBN: 0674726049, 9780674726048. During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men gathered by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil...
University of Hawaii Press, 2006. — 264 р. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3021-2. Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In contrast to other accounts of Manchu rule, Our Great Qing focuses not only on what images the metropole wished to...
University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 2004. — 176 p. The Eight Banners is increasingly recognized as a key institution of the Qing dynasty administration. In Banner Legacy, Professor Enatsu argues that at the end of the Qing, as this region was placed under civil administration, many Han bannermen in the newly created Fengtian Province came to local prominence,...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. — 370 p. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when Manchu regulations made chastity the primary metaphor for obedience and social duty, filial discourse increasingly embraced the dramatic and passionate excesses associated...
University of California Press, 1988. — 471 p. In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and...
Routledge, 2013. — 327 p. The Qing dynasty was China's last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China,...
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. — 316 p. This book explores the development of late 19th century study societies in China against the context of the decline of the imperial Qing government and its control on ideological production, widespread social unrest, and intrusions by Western imperialist states. The author uncovers the history of civil society activism in...
Harvard University Press, 1965. — 124 p. Volume 1 of a syllabus and reference work for understanding Ch'ing Chinese dynasty documents, written by John K. Fairbank and used for one of his history courses at Harvard University. Also includes an introduction, notes, and an appendix.
Harvard University Press, 1953. — 502 p. Examining critically the methods used by Great Britain to break down the cultural barrier of China for the sole purpose of trade, John Fairbank incisively points out the clash between two highly different philosophies—the Confucian ideal of government and the mercantilist utilitarianism of Britain—and how this affected China. This...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 268 p. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance...
Routledge, 2017. — 218 p. — (Asian States and Empires 5). This book is a study of the dual capital system of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644), with a focus on the administrative functions of the auxiliary Southern Capital, Nanjing. It argues that the immense geographical expanse of the Chinese empire and the poor communication infrastructure of pre-modern times necessitated the...
Routledge, 2014. — 218 p. — (Asian States and Empires 5). This book is a study of the dual capital system of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644), with a focus on the administrative functions of the auxiliary Southern Capital, Nanjing. It argues that the immense geographical expanse of the Chinese empire and the poor communication infrastructure of pre-modern times necessitated the...
Brill, 1995. — 259 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 34). This volume deals with the social legislation of Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), following the era of Mongol rule in China. It recounts the circumstances under which the laws were enacted and what the Emperor claimed he was trying to accomplish - a restoration of traditional Chinese social norms. The...
Stanford University Press, 2007. — 480 p. This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 502 p. This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. — 370 p. Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact...
Scribner, 1970. — 351 p. The system of “official supervision and merchant management” which set the pattern for efforts to introduce modern industrial enterprise into nineteenth-century China was in effect a compromise between the urgent need for modernization, arising from the increasing impact of the Occident and of rapidly industrializing Japan, and the conservatism of the...
St. Martin’s Press, 1981. — 272 p. Integrating Chinese History and Early Modem World History. Statist Unity and Local Democracy in the Late Qing Empire. Constitutional Reform and Court Interest in Self-government, 1905-1908. Official and Non-official Self-government Movements and the Elections of 1909. Provincial Assemblies and Constitutionalist Agitation to Early 1910....
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 487 p. The early-twentieth-century essayist Zhu Ziqing once wrote that he had only to mention the name of his hometown of Yangzhou to someone in Beijing and the person would respond, A fine place! A fine place! Yangzhou was indeed one of the great cities of late imperial China, and its name carries a rich historical and cultural resonance. Even...
Routledge, 2019. — 223 р. This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 337 p. A biography of Matteo Ricci, an Italian and the first Jesuit missionary to China, who is credited as an outstanding cultural mediator between China and the West and performed important scientific work.
Harvard University Press, 1960. — 112 p. Historical Introduction. Criticisms of the System. Efforts at Reform before 1900. Efforts at Reform in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. First Reform Efforts in the Nineteenth Century. K'ang Yu-wei and the Examination System. Li Tuan-fen and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao' on the Examination System. Change Chih-tung and the Examination System....
Hong Kong University Press, 2009. — 312 p. The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the China’s future and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over the revolution. The men and women of...
Bloomsbury, 2020. — 217 p. Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China. The Manchu people, who established the last dynasty of Imperial China (the Qing, 1644–1911) originated there, and it has been the stage of turbulent events during the twentieth century: the Russo-Japanese war, Japanese occupation and establishment of the puppet state of...
Routledge, 2018. — 444 p. By offering the new approach of dialogic hybridization, the book not only treats dialogue as an important yet underestimated genre in late Ming Christian literature, but it also uncovers a self–other identity complex in the dialogic exchanges of the Jesuits and Chinese scholars. Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and Christian–Confucian Dialogism in Late...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 221 p. This book examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-Western relations and cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of understanding the origins of the Opium War – a deeply...
University of Washington Press, 1969. — 320 p. Introduction: From Traditional Conservatism to Modern Radicalism by Way of Revolution. China’s Problems and the Attempts to Solve Them, 1860-1905. The Reformers’ Solutions. The Swing Toward Revolution. The T’ung-meng-hui’s Political Program. A National Revolution - Drive Out the Manchus. A Political Revolution: Establish a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 260 p. This book questions the universal belief that England's 1840-1842 War with China was an 'Opium War'. What really worried London was 'insults to the crown', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 328 p. C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these...
Lexington Books, 2007. — 327 p. — ISBN-10 0-7391-1868-4, ISBN-13 978-0-7391-1868-9. Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist...
Pieter Lang, 1995. — 241 p. Between 1880 and 1930, Christian schools established in China by American Protestant missionaries were at the peak of their popularity and autonomy. During these years, a burgeoning professional ethos and the desire to compete with native schools led to the steady secularization of the mission schools. Americans is also used these schools in a...
University of Hawaii Press, 2008. — 256 p. The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence...
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1969. — 271 p. This is the first full study of British reactions to the major civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion which ravaged China in the mid-nineteenth century. The main emphasis is upon government policy towards the rebellion over the whole period in which it was active, but there are also chapters dealing with the views of...
Harvard University Press, 1973. — 282 p. The mission movement, carrier of Western ideas, techniques, attitudes, and institutions, was a major agent of nineteenth-century international change. Dr. Peter Parker, preacher, physician, and diplomat, played a unique part in this convergence between China and the West. Transforming missionary activity, Parker helped found the Medical...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004. — 412 p. — (South China and Maritime Asia 12). This collection contains an introductory essay by Wang Gungwu and 22 studies originally read to an international conference organized by the Department of History, National University of Singapore. The contributions investigate diverse aspects of coastal China’s commercial, demographic and other ties...
University of California Press, 2022. — 302 p. Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth...
University of California Press, 2022. — 302 p. Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth...
Xiamen University Press, 1993. — 224 p. Sino-Western relations in the eighteenth century mainly found their expression in a particular mode of commercial transactions in Canton. The structure of the Western trade with China was based on silver and colonial products from India and the Malay archipelago, like silver, cotton, pepper, lead. These commodities were exchanged for...
University of Washington Press, 2013. — 512 p. During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors -- those in charge of these increasingly influential administrative units -- playing key roles. R. Kent Guy’s comprehensive study of this shift concentrates on the governorship system...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 307 p. The compilation of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu) was one of the most ambitious intellectual projects of the Ch'ing dynasty. Initiated by imperial command in 1772, the project sought to evaluate, edit, and reproduce the finest Chinese writings in the four traditional categories: Confucian classics,...
University of Glasgow, 2016. — 374 p. Costume colour held special significance in Chinese history. This thesis pioneers the multi-perspective exploration of dyes in high-status costume and textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties using the dual approach of history and chemistry. Through the examination and comparison of four important historical manuscripts of dye recipes...
Sourcebooks, 2004. — 352 p. In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug,...
Harvard University Press, 1970. — 336 p. Introduction: The Comprador in Chinese Society. The Western Merchant and His Chinese Comprador. The Western Mercantile House. Reliance on the Chinese Comprador. Further Benefits of the Comprador. The Rise and Fall of the Comprador. Origins of the Comprador. Rise of the Modern Comprador, 1842-1900. Spread of the Comprador Outside China....
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. — xv, 374 p. — (Scholarly introductions to thematic chapters of translated primary sources from the government gazette of the Qing Empire). — ISBN: 9789004361003 (e-book). In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris offers an innovative text covering the extraordinary ruptures and remarkable continuities in...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — 374 p. Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), who collaborated with the...
Hong Kong University Press, 2008. — 445 p. Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der...
Duke University Press, 1995. — 307 p. In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men...
Duke University Press Books, 2003. — 410 p. Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024. — 230 p. Chinese Empresses highlights the stories of Chinese imperial women and how male authorities attempted to curb their power. It disputes the notion that Chinese empresses were simply hapless or powerless victims of the male-dominated political system. This book is not a compendium of biographies of Chinese empress. The objective is...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. — 211 p. This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles,...
UCLA, 2017. — 260 p. This dissertation argues that Emperor Wanli (1563–1620) and his birth mother, Empress Dowager Cisheng (1546–1614), used art as a crucial means of proclaiming their political legitimacy. Whereas previous scholars assumed that the Wanli court’s demand for art production served only to fulfill the imperial family’s penchant for a luxurious lifestyle, in this...
Brill, 2020. — 634 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 146). The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law,...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 254 p. As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this timely book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank notes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Focusing on...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. — x, 275 p. — ISBN: 9781438456898 (e-book). Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century. This book is a micro history of the social and political effects of industrialization in Pingxiang County, a Chinese coalmining community. Instead of...
University of Chicago Press, 2001. — 288 p. In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge...
Duke University Press Books, 1996. — 354 p. D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the...
Routledge, 2018. — 428 p. This volume, first published in 1925, presents a clear background to the then-contemporary political situation in China, and in doing so sheds much light on the history of Chinese politics. In focusing on the political organization it generates an insightful study of Chinese government.
Stanford University Press, 2005. — 368 p. A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhood—literary and philosophical—and the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the...
Harvard University Press, 1960. — 255 p. “Family of nations” is a figurative term originally applied to the Western European states signing the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, a group characterized by its continued expansion beyond Western Europe. In this international context, Immanuel Hsü studies China’s emergence from political isolation, discussing, in historical sequence,...
University of Washington Press, 2017. — 298 p. The figure of Dai Zhen (1724-1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 362 p. In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial...
Brill, 2018. — 237 p. — (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 10). In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei Huang examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key...
Stanford University Press, 1996. — 288 p. To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits—those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance—as official Qing representations led us to believe? Is it true that decent...
Yale University Press, 1982. — 309 p. 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline is Chinese historian Ray Huang's most famous work. First published by Yale University Press in 1981, it examines how a number of seemingly insignificant events in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the Ming empire. The views expressed in the book follow the macro history...
Stanford University Press, 1966. — 416 p. The Censorial Heritage in China. The Ming Censorial Establishment. Censorial Surveillance Techniques. Censorial Impeachments and Counsel in a Tranquil Era, 1424-1434. Censorial Impeachments and Counsel in a Chaotic Era, 1620-1627. Censorial Distractions and Discipline. Censorship and the Traditional State System. Glossary of Special...
Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, 2020. — 118 p. In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368–1644), and reasserted the mastery of their national destiny. It...
University of Michigan Press, 1971. — 83 p. A historical analysis of a famous Chinese military campaign in 1556, and a translation of a narrative account of a popular uprising in 1626. Charles O. Hucker is Professor of Chinese and of History at the University of Michigan. In the first study of Two Studies on Ming History , Charles O. Hucker presents an account of a military...
Издательство: United States Government Printing Office, 1943. - 616 с.
Язык: Английский
Уникальный справочник по истории Китая эпохи Цин (1644 - 1912), составленный американским востоковедом Артуром Гуммелем в 1943 году. Включает около 1000 биографий членов правящей династии, сановников, ученых, а также выходцев из стран Запада, внесших вклад в историю Китая.
Издательство: United States Government Printing Office, 1943. - 502 с.
Язык: Английский
Уникальный справочник по истории Китая эпохи Цин (1644 - 1912), составленный американским востоковедом Артуром Гуммелем в 1943 году. Включает около 1000 биографий членов правящей династии, сановников, ученых, а также выходцев из стран Запада, внесших вклад в историю Китая.
Global Oriental, 2010. — 1122 p. Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period is more than a biographical dictionary. It is the most detailed and the best history of China of the last three hundred years that one can find anywhere today. It is written in the form of biographies of eight hundred men and women who made that history. This form, by the way, is in line with the Chinese...
2nd ed. — Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010. — 618 p. Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the single indispensable reference tool for Chinese history since 1644. It was first published in 1943–44. ‘The best history of China of the last 300 years’ – Hu Shih. Contributors include: K. Biggerstaff, H. Dubs, J.K. Fairbank, Fang Chao-ying, L.C.Goodrich, Hu Shih, T.Numata, E. Swisher,...
2nd ed. — Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010. — 505 p. Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the single indispensable reference tool for Chinese history since 1644. It was first published in 1943–44. ‘The best history of China of the last 300 years’ – Hu Shih. Contributors include: K. Biggerstaff, H. Dubs, J.K. Fairbank, Fang Chao-ying, L.C.Goodrich, Hu Shih, T.Numata, E. Swisher,...
Algora Publishing, 2017. — 217 p. China's Qing Dynasty gave the fading glory of the Ming Dynasty a fresh and fabulous new start. From the early 1600s to the 1700s, a series of able leaders expanded and strengthened the realm, making China an economic and cultural powerhouse again. Important steps along the way are related in this straightforward narrative. The Manchu people, a...
Columbia University Press, 2011. — 288 p. The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. — xvi; 230; maps, notes, bibliography, glossary & index. The Ili crisis is a subject of considerable significance in modern China's history. Its settlement in 1881 not only marked China's first diplomatic victory in the 19th century, but also made possible the establishment of a province in Sinkiang for the first time in two millennia. The...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. — xvi; 230; maps, notes, bibliography, glossary & index. The Ili crisis is a subject of considerable significance in modern China's history. Its settlement in 1881 not only marked China's first diplomatic victory in the 19th century, but also made possible the establishment of a province in Sinkiang for the first time in two millennia. The...
Brill, 2014. — 354 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 116). In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher’s official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China’s intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation...
Brill, 2001. — x, 470 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 50). This is the first comprehensive work on one of the key figures in early Chinese-Western relations. Xu Guangqi was one of the first promoters of Western science in China, worked together with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci on translations of Western science, was one of the first Chinese converts, a high-ranking statesman, organizer of a...
Routledge, 2019. — 172 p. Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book examines over 350 legal cases that comprise the "cases of...
University of Hawaii Press, 1994. — 231 p. Textbooks and general histories of modern China agree that the so-called Miao rebellion constituted one of the major rebellions of the nineteenth century. It lasted for twenty years, caused devastation of such severity that its effects were still obvious to travelers in Guizhou province decades later, and, by one account, resulted in...
University of Washington Press, 2005. — 392 p. One of the most important law codes in Chinese history, the Ming Code regulated all the perceived major aspects of social affairs, aiming at the harmony of political, economic, military, familial, ritual, international, and legal relations in the empire and cosmic relations in the universe. Imperial China’s dynastic legal codes...
University of Minnesota, 2017. — 389 p. In this dissertation, I used both archaeological and historical evidence to discuss why the function of tombs changed in the Ming dynasty. This change reflects the changes in the way people envisioned the afterlife and in the relationship between the living and the deceased. My research question starts with a set of miniaturized pewter...
Brill, 2025. — xx, 465 p. — (Brill Series in Taiwan Studies 3). This is the first book-length study of the reception of Christianity and the epistemic outcomes of contact between Protestant and Catholic missionaries and Indigenous Austronesians in the contact zone of seventeenth-century colonial Taiwan. In the Age of European Expansion, Dutch Reformed and Spanish Catholic...
Harvard University Press, 1971. — 327 p. In this exploration of the monarch’s image and its makers, Harold Kahn analyzes the difference between persona and person, between the creature of the historians and the maker of history himself. Focusing on the eighteenth-century Chinese emperor, the author examines the complexity of the roles imposed on him—by precedent, ritual,...
Harvard University Press, 2002. — 288 p. The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects...
University of California Press, 2019. — 288 p. The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that...
University of California Press, 2019. — 288 p. The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that...
London: Leo Cooper, 1991. — 276 p. This book tells the story of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. The Boxers were a fanatical secret organization who were incited by anti-foreign elements in the Chinese Government to commit wide-scale deportations against foreign missionaries and their Chinese converts. The Boxers had the tacit support of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi who...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 281 p. This book examines the theological worldview of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), a Chinese revolutionary movement whose leader, Hong Xiuquan (1814–64), claimed to be the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus. Despite the profound impact of Christian books on Hong’s religious thinking, previous scholarship has neglected the localized...
Stanford University Press, 2004. — 316 p. In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 310 p. Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. 'Borderland Capitalism' argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration needed the Turkic begs to develop...
University of California Press, 2017. — 224 p. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Choson Korea during the period from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. By examining a unique body of materials written in Chinese, Manchu, and Korean, and building on recent studies in New Qing History,...
Harvard University Press, 1965. — 340 p. Research in both the general and economic history of nineteenth-century China has been seriously hampered by the seeming chaos of the monetary system. Frank King’s book presents a systematic exposition of the structure of the monetary system, clarified by comparisons with similar systems in late medieval and early modern Europe,...
University of Washington Press, 2017. — 330 p. An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values ofwen(culture,...
Stanford University Press, 2002. — 174 p. What is Chinese about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early 19th-century...
Harvard University Press, 1971. — 272 p. The goal of this work is to examine the process of China's local orthodox and heterodox elite's involvement in the militarization of Chinese society during the tumultuous nineteenth century. Orthodox elites here meaning the "scholar gentry" (those that held academic degrees and had significant influence in local affairs, but held no...
Harvard University Press, 1990. — 316 p. Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over...
University of California Press, 2018. — 345 p. Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected by the great eunuch corruption of...
Harvard University Press, 1984. — 375 p. This analysis of the interplay among people and of events leading up to the reform acts of 1898--the Hundred Days--and their abrupt termination presents a new interpretation of the late Ch'ing political scene. The Emperor, the Empress-Dowager, and high-court personalities are followed through the maze of motives and relationships that...
Curzon Press, 1990. — 223 p. Zhang Binglin (1869–1936), also known as Zhang Taiyan, was a Chinese philologist, textual critic, philosopher, and revolutionary. An activist as well as a scholar, he produced many political works. Because of his outspoken character, he was jailed for three years by the Qing Empire and put under house arrest for another three by Yuan Shikai. His...
University of New York Press, 1998. — 214 p. This book presents a wealth of historical, ritual, and musical data preserved in authentic Ming documents, describing ritual and musical structures, thoughts, and actions of Ming emperors and scholar-officials who practiced court ritual and music for official and personal purposes. Not only the significance of Ming dynasty state...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 304 p. Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric as conventional wisdom suggests. Instead,...
Routledge, 2015. — 598 p. The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more...
Harvard University Press, 1970. — 229 p. — (Harvard East Asian Series, 43). — ISBN: 9780674430709. The geographic and cultural foundation of the Ch'ing Manchurian frontier policy. The banner system. Political control of the tribal peoples. The establishment of bureaucratic administration. The Sinicization of the Manchurian frontier. The frontier government in transition....
Blacksmith Books, 2021. — 372 p. Jersey-born William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce campaigning against the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 273 p. The first full length treatment of ethnic and national identity in early Twentieth-century China, Leibold traces the political and cultural strategies employed by Han Chinese elites in the process of incorporating, both discursively and physically, the diverse inhabitants of the last Qing dynasty into a new, homogenous national community.
Brill, 2018. — 206 p. — (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 12). In Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy, Jane Kate Leonard shows how the use of special ad hoc governing tools, such as recruitment (zhaoshang) of private organizations and the establishment of temporary bureaus (ju) enabled the Qing government to respond quickly and effectively to challenging...
Harvard University Press, 1984. — 300 p. Very informative and interesting take on Qing Dynasty's foreign policy as well as the best English language source on the life of influential reformer Wei Yuan. The book also serves as an analysis of Wei's most famous work the "Treatise on the Sea Kingdoms" and puts it as well as Wei's political life back into the context of Chinese...
Stanford University Press, 1997. — 254 p. This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and Pengmin (a largely Hakka-speaking people) migration in this...
Routledge, 2010. — 237 p. This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process,...
University of British Columbia, 2023. — 82 p. Piracy in Ming China during the 1560s and 1570s, while not frequently discussed, posed a unique maritime problem for officials to tackle. One threat they faced in this period was Lin Feng (active 1568–1580s), a pirate appearing on the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian provinces since the early Longqing period (1567–1572). Lin Feng was...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 362 p. Many scholars have noted the role of China's demand for silver in the emergence of the modern world. This book discusses the interaction of this demand and the early-nineteenth-century Latin American independence movements, changes in the world economy, the resulting disruptions in the Qing dynasty, and the transformation from the High...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. — 357 p. During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s–1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front and center as the locus of authority and control. Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by...
Routledge, 2017. — 236 p. In ancient China, as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, merchants were viewed as greedy and immoral, commanding little respect. But since the sixteenth century, when China entered modern times with the sprout of capitalism, merchants have become a strong force to transform the ancient society. By absorbing methods of anthropology, psychology,...
University of Manchester, 2017. — 270 p. This thesis approaches two perennial and interrelated problems in the historiographyof China—the question of the openness or self-isolation of (Ming) Chinese society, aswell as the nature and extent of the Mongol legacy in the (early) Ming—from a newangle. In spite of a growing body of scholarship on political, military, andinstitutional...
Picador, 2011. — 352 p. On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly. Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control. In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 264 p. Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing cultural norms and the lived experiences of men and women. In Arranged Companions, historian Weijing Lu chronicles how marital behaviors during the early and High Qing (mid-seventeenth through mid-nineteenth...
University of British Columbia, 2022. — 307 p. In 1621, with Manchu armies occupying Ming China’s (1368-1644) northeastern territory, a Ming military officer named Mao Wenlong 毛文龍 (1576-1629) and his followers left for an island off the northwestern coast of the Korean peninsula. They soon occupied the nearby islets, filled these locales with people fleeing from Manchu rule,...
University of British Columbia, 2015. — 68 p. Focusing on Liaodong, a military region in Ming-dynasty China (1368-1644), this thesis examines some of the strategies the local population deployed to manage the imposition of the state. The argument is that, whether in dealing with tax obligations, labour services, or conflict resolutions, the military households in Liaodong were...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 375 p. A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it. China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic...
University of California Press, 1980. — 272 p. Yuan Shi-kai's Rise to Power. Stabilizing Zhili: Yuan Shi-kai's First Years as Governor-General, 1901-1903. Yuan Shi-kai's Domination of Court Politics and Foreign Affairs in Beijing, 1903-1907. Yuan Shi-kai and the Beiyang Army, 1901-1907. Reform and the Exercise of Power in Zhili, 1901-1907. Yuan Shi-kai as Grand Councillor and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 200 p. With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday. As...
Stanford University Press, 1997. — 340 p. This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that emphasized the oppression and subjugation of Chinese women. Placing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic,...
Macmillan Company, 1968. — 296 p. The Birth-pangs of Vietnam. Martyrs and Mandarins. With opium in one hand. The First French Offensive. The French Explore. The Black Flags. Jean Dupuis Francis Gamier China—Divided Counsels Halliday Macartney and the Marquis Tseng China’s Suzerainty Challenged Henri Riviere— Tragedy Repeated Hue Capitulates The Rage of Liu Yung-fu Peace or War?...
Routledge, 2021. — 220 p. — (Asian States and Empires 20). This book explores new directions in the study of China's borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author's own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, martial fortification,...
Routledge, 2021. — 220 p. — (Asian States and Empires 20). This book explores new directions in the study of China's borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author's own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, martial fortification,...
Routledge, 2015. — 224 p. — (Asian States and Empires 6). The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China’s borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and the incipient decline of the imperial Qing dynasty. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that, on the...
Routledge, 2015. — 212 p. — (Asian States and Empires 6). The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China’s borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and the incipient decline of the imperial Qing dynasty. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that, on the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2009. — 224 p. For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 280 p. Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 280 p. Across eighteenth-century Late Imperial China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political...
Brill, 1991. — x, 137 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 25). In this publication the development is traced of two sections of the chapter on "Homicide" of the penal code of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Murder and Homicide of an Adulterer. The former deals with premeditated homicide where there is no difference in status, social or family relations between murderer and victim, while in...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 450 p. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one. Focusing on the still-active Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian, this project addresses three main questions. Why did people convert? Second, how did converts...
Harvard University Press, 1973. — 480 p. The Normative Background of Law Making: Administrative Flexibility. The Communication of the Laws. The Formal Structure of the Law-making Process. The Law on the Administrative Punishment of Civil Officials. T’ao Chu’s Memorials. On Han Avoidance. On the Ch’ing Penal Code. On Ling and Chih-shu. On the Right to Memorialize. On Calculating...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 335 p. The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. — 350 p. Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the world's great river systems between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Steven B. Miles examines the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier, and the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 180 p. Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the 1670s, which effectively trumped the gentry's claim to sovereignty. In this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 220 pp., ISBN: 0230617875, 9780230617872 This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. — xxiv, 353 p. "What do you want to study those frontier places for? All the history happened in China!" So a Chinese friend told me many years ago when I spoke of my growing interest in the Central Asian region known as Xinjiang-the Qing dynasty's "New Dominion," or the "Western Regions." My experience during my first years in...
London: Routledge Curzon is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — xix; 245 p.: illustr. ISBN: 0-203-63093-9 Master e-book ISBN: 0-203-34530-4 (Adobe eReader Format) New Qing imperial history uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art, and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the...
Toyo Bunko, 2010. — 317 p. Based on the papers presented at "International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources" which was held at Hakone, Japan in 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index. Xinjiang historically consisted of two main geographically, historically, and ethnically distinct regions with different historical names: Dzungaria north of the Tianshan...
Algora Publishing, 2016. — 261 p. A beggar, an itinerant monk, leapt to greatness during a tumultuous epoch and went on to found the Ming Dynasty of China (1368-1644). As a destitute peasant with nothing to lose, he started a local rebellion; success built on success. Defeating local warlords, Zhu Yuan Zhang conquered all the southern part of China, then sent his army north and...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 352 p. In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its interactions with international capital...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 403 p. This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialization in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organization of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 408 p. Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang,...
New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. - 186 p. На английском языке. Книга посвящена детоубийству в поздний период династии Цин. В основе лежат письменные свидетельства христианских миссионеров, китайские нравоучительные повествования, примеры из художественной литературы того времени. Рассматриваются причины и восприятие инфантицида (детоубийства) с точки зрения различных...
Brill, 2021. — 567 р. — (Inner Asia 14). Read The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the reverse. It reveals the Qing as a...
Routledge, 2013. — 460 p. A study of the first three decades of British colonial rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.
Yale University Press, 1987. — 270 p. During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in...
Yale University Press, 1977. — 400 p. The Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813 broke out in China under the Qing dynasty. The rebellion was started by some elements of the millenarian Tianli Sect or Heavenly Principle Sect, which was a branch of the White Lotus Sect. Led by Lin Qing (1770–1813) and Li Wencheng, the revolt occurred in the Zhili, Shandong, and Henan provinces of...
Brill, 2023. — xiv, 359 p. — (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia 8). The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the “venerable ancestor” of the Jesuit mission, namely, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 128 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Economic History). — ISBN 9783030546137. This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic publications in economic history between 1997-2000, debate on the divergent economic development that has marked the long-term...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 353 p. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile to independently identify reincarnations....
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 376 p. Between 1894 and 1905 the question of the Chinese Empire's future development, its survival even, was the most pressing overseas problem facing the Great Powers. The frantic 'scramble for Africa' and the often more intense drama of the 'Eastern Question' notwithstanding, it was the 'China Question' that had the most profound implications...
Routledge, 1994. — 208 p. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 255 p. — (East Asian Economic and Socio-cultural Studies - East Asian Maritime History 15). The last century of China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) saw many troubles and challenges from abroad. Pirates raided the coast, Europeans challenged the traditional world order of the tribute system, and the everlasting threat from the northern steppe people...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 185 p. This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only connected the Chinese and Japanese domestic markets but also was linked to the...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 725 p. — ISBN: 067401684X. From the seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century, three great empires — Manchu Qing (1644–1911), the Muscovite – Russian (1613–1917), and the Mongolian Zunghars (1671–1760) — contended for power in the heart of Eurasia. The distances were vast, communications slow, military campaigns extended and costly, and...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1987. — 331 p. Recent agricultural reforms in the People’s Republic of China have generated great interest in the ability of the Chinese state, traditional and modern, to accommodate rapid economic change. Exhausting the Earth examines an earlier period—from the late Ming to the mid-Qing era marked by tremendous population growth, extension of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 272 p. This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese...
Knopf, 2012. — 512 p. A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s,...
Knopf, 2018. — 592 p. As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. When Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 310 p. In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a landlocked state. Although it came to be...
Harvard University Press, 1991. — 290 p. Why did defeat in the Opium War not lead Ch'ing China to a more realistic appreciation of Western might and Chinese weakness? James Polachek's revisionist analysis exposes the behind-the-scenes political struggles that not only shaped foreign-policy decisions in the 1830s and 1840s but have continued to affect the history of Chinese...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 352 p. China’s last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: the more than two million members of the hereditary Eight Banner system who were at the core of both the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 410 p. This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing...
Princeton University Press, 1955. — 392 p. The Chinese Armies Prior to 1895. The Creation of the New-Style Armies, 1895-1897. The Hundred Days and the Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1900. Military Modernization Under the Empress-Dowager, 1901-1903. Military and Administrative Reform, 1904-1906. Progress in Military Training and Organization, 1904-1906. The Collapse of the Old Order,...
Walker and Company, 2000. — 436 p. Portrays the dramatic human experience of the great Boxer Rebellion from both a Western and Chinese perspective, drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters of those that lived through this pivotal time in the history of China. In 1900 a violent rebellion swept northern China - the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to...
Harvard University Press, 1974. — 302 p. The author studies Chinese images of Russian history and the Russian revolutionary movement in order to analyze a wide range of Chinese revolutionary and reformist thought, arguing that Chinese images of revolution reflected more than the romantic faddism of young rebels.
Brill Academic, 2010. — 202 p. — (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 8). In The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China, Wing-kin Puk explains the fate of Capitalism in late imperial China through the strange journey of a piece of paper: the Ming salt certificate.
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 392 p. In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Day's Reform" has received a great deal of attention from historians who have focused on the well-known male historical...
Harvard University Press, 1971. — 356 p. Mary Backus Rankin presents a reinterpretation of various aspects of the 1911 Revolution in China. The author concentrates on the radical intellectuals and students who formed the core of revolutionary politics. She has carefully examined their activities in both an urbanized treaty port (Shanghai) and a provincial environment...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 350 p. — ISBN: 1107093082, 9781107093089. In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with...
University of California Press, 1998. — 507 p. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable...
Harvard University Press, 1972. — 282 p. Making exhaustive use of information gleaned from contemporary gazetteers, Evelyn Rawski investigates the effects of expanding commerce on the rural economy of South China. Concentrating on the development of sixteenth-century Fukien and eighteenth-century Hunan provinces, the author emphasizes the importance of examining the entire...
Stanford University Press, 2000. — 341 p. For commoners in the Qing dynasty, the most salient agents of the imperial state were not the emperor's appointed officials but rather the clerks and runners of the county yamen,the lowest level of functionaries in the Qing state's administrative hierarchy. Yet until now we have known very little about these critically important persons...
University of Washington Press, 2004. — 248 p. Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 335 p. Challenging most accounts of China's revolutionary transformation at the turn of the century, Douglas Reynolds argues that the political toppling of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the Xinzheng or New System reforms of the late-Qing government itself. He then provides a detailed account of the debt those reforms owed to...
University of Washington Press, 2000. — 412 p. China’s 1911–12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown―the Qing―was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China’s Han majority for nearly...
University of Washington Press, 2000. — 412 p. China's 1911–12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown - the Qing - was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China's Han majority for...
University of Washington Press, 2000. — 412 p. China's 1911–12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown - the Qing - was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China's Han majority for...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 255 p. In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever...
Graffiti Militante Press, 2008. — 728 p. Lin Zexu arrives in Canton in March 1839, sent by the emperor of China to halt the opium trade. He demands the foreigners surrender their opium, threatens to burn it and holds them hostage for a month and a half. But Lin does not burn the opium. Instead, he constructs huge ponds and soaks it in water, lime and salt. Most historians assume...
University of Hawaii Press, 2001, 283 pp., ISBN: 0824823915, 9780824823917 Here is a detailed look at the role of illicit violence during the Ming." "Drawing on court annals, imperial law codes, administrative regulations, private writings, and local gazetteers, David Robsinson recreates in vivid detail a world where heavily armed highwaymen and bandits raided the boulevards in...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 387 p. During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history. Genghis Khan and his successors brought death and destruction to Eurasia. They obliterated infrastructure, devastated cities, and exterminated peoples. They also created courts in China, Persia, and southern Russia, famed throughout the world as...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 262 p. On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being isolated, the Ming court was the greatest center of political patronage in East Eurasia,...
Library of Tibetan Works, 1998. — 95 p. This important work by historian William W. Rockhill on the foreign relations between the Dalai Lamas of Tibet (Lhasa) and the Manchu Emperors of Chima from 1644 until 1908, firstly published in 1910 in T'oung-Poo, Series III, Vol. I , No. 4 and subsequently reprinted by Oriental Printing office in 1998.
The Belknap Press ; Harvard University Press, 2009. — 368 p. In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 368 p. In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered...
Stanford University Press, 1984. — 440 p. This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to the hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds. The second volume, Hankow: Conflict...
Stanford University Press, 2001. — 614 p. Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general, governor, or in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a “model official.” In...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 230 p. In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the “prosperous age” of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 250 p. Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform explores the nature and functioning of reform during the nineteenth century of China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911). By analyzing the bureaucratic modes of management that developed around the creation and evolution of the Zongli Yamen or Foreign Office...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 280 p. Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing...
Brill, 2003. — 612 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 60). This is the long-awaited first book-form result of the author s pioneering interdisciplinary research on a key problem for understanding Chinese texts, and, therewith, China: its ways of expression of emotions and states of mind. Relying on his immense database on (mostly) Ming and Qing sources, the author here presents the first...
Independent Publishers, 2020. — 161 p. The only premodern contemplation of spies ever written apart from Sunzi’s brief but incisive Art of War chapter, Jian Shu (Book of Spies) was completed in the last century of the severely weakened Qing dynasty to address pressing defensive needs. The first third of the book ponders the nature of clandestine intelligence gathering,...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 344 pp. The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 428 p. In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military reforms and established "New Armies" modeled after the German and Japanese military. Besides reorganizing the structure of the army and improving military training, the goal was to overcome the...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. — xiii, 271 p. — ISBN: 9781503600683 (eBook). In 1886, H. Evan James discovered pristine nature in Manchuria. As he breathlessly reported to the Royal Geographic Society, “Te scenery... is marvelously beautiful — woods and flowers and grassy glades — and to the lover of nature it is simply a paradise.” A glimpse of this world was a...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 304 p. At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and their...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 304 p. At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and their...
Stanford University Press, 2006. — 302 p. According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over the course of the Ming period (1368-1644), schools were sponsored first by the...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 378 p. Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos, the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By...
Hackett Publishing, 2006. — 175 p. A commoner's presentation to the emperor of a lucky omen from his garden, the repercussions for his family, and several retellings of the incident provide the background for an engaging introduction to Ming society, culture, and politics, including discussions of the founding of the Ming dynasty; the character of the first emperor; the role of...
Harvard University Press, 1982. — 280 p. With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901-1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. — xviii, 356 p.
The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese Historyis an introduction to major features of modern Chinese history and a reference for general readers interested in pursuing certain topics. This introduction points first to the importance of understanding Chinese history, as it sets forth some of its distinguishing aspects; it...
Brill, 2016. — 478 p. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library 35). This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Lifanyuan and Libu, revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire. This volume offers...
New York: The Century Co., 1900. — 466 p; illustr.
In adding to the long list of books about China, one can only hope to give another individual experience and point of view, to add new testimony to that so abundantly offered. No one can cover the whole field, give the only key, or utter the last word; and during seven visits to China in the last fifteen years, the mystery of...
UBC Press, 2018. — 321 p. Statesman or warlord? Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been hailed as China’s George Washington for his key role in the country’s transition from empire to republic. In any list of significant modern Chinese figures, he stands in the first rank. YetYuan Shikai: A Reappraisal sheds new light on the equally controversial history of this talented...
Foreign Languages Press, 1955. — 308 p. This work begins with the Chinese Opium War of 1840-1842. It is first necessary, however, to deal briefly with China's relations with European foreign powers prior to the war. The translation is from the fourth edition of the Chinese text.
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 274 p. During the years spanning the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican era, the status of Chinese women changed in both subtle and decisive ways. As domestic seclusion ceased to be a sign of virtue, new opportunities emerged for a variety of women. Much scholarly attention has been given to the rise of the modern, independent "new...
Brill, 2017. — 514 p. — (Global Economic History Series 14/3; The Quantitative Economic History of China 14/3). In Agricultural Development in Qing China: A Quantitative Study, 16661-1911 SHI Zhihong offers for the first time an overview of agricultural development in Qing China in the English language. Being by far the largest sector in one of the largest economies in the...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — XXI, 246 p. — ISBN: 0-521-85354-0. In this innovative and well-crafted study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China’s modern ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Challenging the traditional view that China’s expansion was primarily an exercise of incorporation...
University of Washington Press, 2020. — 296 p. Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women's work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by...
University of Washington Press, 2020. — 296 p. Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women's work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by...
Hill and Wang, 2012. — 304 p. Details the history of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, in which groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists", called the "Boxers" by Western press wanted to rid China of all foreign influence and massacred foreigners until subdued by international forces.
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 304 p. During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to...
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 304 p. During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to...
Lehigh University Press, 2013. — 301 p. The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Qing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r. 1661–1722) and expanded by his son, Yongzheng (r. 1722–1735) and brought to its greatest glory by his grandson, Qianlong (r. 1736–1796). A lover of literature and art, Qinglong sought an earthly...
University of California Press, 2009. — 424 p. An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and religious boundaries. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile explanation that charity was a...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. — 625 p. The book in hand seeks to answer this question, focusing on features of language, patterns of behavior, beliefs, and values, systems of logic, symbolic structures, aesthetic preferences, material achievements, and institutions that came to be considered distinctively “Chinese” before “modern” Western values and ideas became viable cultural...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. — 329 p. Chinese officials put considerable effort into managing the fiscal and legal affairs of their jurisdictions, but they also devoted significant time and energy to performing religious rituals on behalf of the state. This groundbreaking study explores this underappreciated aspect of Chinese political life by investigating rainmaking...
Michigan State University Press, 1975. — 251 p. Dr So argues in his book that the commonly held view that Japan was responsible for all the havoc wrought by pirates and smugglers on the seas near Ming China during the 16th century, it's not complete truth and reality. He discussed and researched this theme by many different aspects and sources.
ANU Press, 1980. — 157 p. China was virtually closed to visitors from the West until the middle of the nineteenth century. Its opening coincided with the advent of the camera, which gives the early photographs included in this book a double feeling of discovery, of the landscape and its people, and of the potentiality of the new medium. The camera was a curious witness to the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2012. — 256 p. The remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661 to 1722, assembled from documents that survived his longest reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The Kangxi Emperor's reign of 61 years (from 1661 until 1722) makes him the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history (although his...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 444 p. The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s were of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transition. The nine essays in this...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1996. — 432 p. Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-1864) stands...
Penguin Group, 2014. — 352 p. Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of rule, was overthrown by the Manchu invasion...
Yale University Press, 1988. — 345 p. In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bondservant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendent wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel, becomes the focal point of a fascinating study that sheds...
Brill, 2022. — 364 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 155). By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on...
Brill, 1988. — xi, 263 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 19). Yang Tingyun (1562-1627) was an average scholar-official: he studied the Confucian Classics for many years, successfully completed the palace examination, and passed through an official career, first as a district magistrate and then as a censor. He was interested in Neo-Confucian philosophy and also in Buddhism. However, at a...
Routledge, 2012. — 304 p. Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex desire in Chinese history. Negotiating what can be a...
University of Hawaii Press, 2019. — 334 p. From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming--and in a wider array of genres--than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. — 412 p. For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as “late imperial China,” a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2005. — 312 p. Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires--the power...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 315 p. This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century. Lynn A. Struve has translated, introduced, and annotated absorbing testimonies from a wide range of individuals in different social...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. — xix, 463 p. — (Series: China studies; volume 39). — ISBN: 9789004361034 (ebook). In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written...
ISEAS Publishing, 2005. — 187 p. Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia commemorates the 600th anniversary of Admiral Zheng He’s maiden voyage to Southeast Asia and beyond. The book is jointly issued by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and the International Zheng He Society. To reflect Asian views on the subject matter, nine articles written by Asian scholars —...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 474 p. The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong (1605–47), a peasant rebel known as...
Routledge, 2019. — 578 p. — (The Routledge Worlds). — ISBN: 978-1-138190-98-5. The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world. The book is designed to replicate the structure...
Routledge, 2019. — 578 p. — (The Routledge Worlds). The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world. The book is designed to replicate the structure of popular Ming-era...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 424 p. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. This monograph offered a revisionist look at the controversial reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli (r. 1573-1620) and...
Routledge, 2014. — 291 p. Swope’s early study on the Three Great Campaigns of the Wanli emperor (1592–1598) details the important ways in which the Wanli emperor employed his talent for military affairs to conduct campaigns that successfully suppressed the Mongols, Japanese invaders, and civil rebels. As demonstrated in his A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail, the Ming...
London: Routledge, 2014. — viii, 291 p. — (Asian States and Empires 4). Swope’s early study on the Three Great Campaigns of the Wanli emperor (1592–1598) details the important ways in which the Wanli emperor employed his talent for military affairs to conduct campaigns that successfully suppressed the Mongols, Japanese invaders, and civil rebels. As demonstrated in his A...
Routledge, 2020. — 225 p. This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society. It is based on extensive original research by scholars using the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach that has transformed the study of Chinese history by approaching the subject from the bottom up. Its nine...
Stanford University Press, 2002. — 279 p. Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 325 p. How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation...
University of Kent, 2018. — 228 p. Early modern Europe and late-Ming China were societies which witnessed considerable advancements in transportation and communications infrastructure. Such developments enabled the proliferation of travel, alongside the creation, publication and dissemination of travel accounts, written by well-travelled and scholarly individuals. This thesis...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 312 p. Practicing Scripture is an original and detailed history of one of the most successful religious movements of late imperial China, the Non-Action Teachings, or Wuweijiao, from its beginnings in the late sixteenth century in the prefectures of southern Zhejiang to the middle of the twentieth century, when communist repression dealt it a...
Translated by William C. Jones, with assistance of Tianquan Cheng and Yongling Jiang. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. — xxx, 412, (Glossary) 11 and (Index) 17 p. Until recently Chinese law was not much studied either in China or abroad, but it is now generally realized that law has been enormously important in Chinese society. The result has been a surge in new scholarship on...
By the Compilation Group for the “History of Modern China” Series. — Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. — 131 p. The Opium War is one of several booklets translated from the “History of Modern China” Series, Shanghai People's Publishing House. Others are: The Taiping Revolution (1851–64), The Reform Movement of 1898 , The Yi Ho Tuan Movement of 1900 and The Reuolution of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense and Hotei Publishing, 2018. — xviii, 456 p. (Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600–1900, Volume 9) — ISBN: 9789004353718 (E-book). The following two articles illustrate the remarkable influence of mining on politics, society, culture and environment in Southwest China and thus form...
Brill, 2013. — 282 p. In his book War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China, historian Ulrich Theobald deeply analyzes how the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) laid the organizational military base for the spectacular expansion of its territory.
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 316 p. From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese society. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the...
Routledge, 2019. — 195 p. More than one hundred years ago, imperial Chinese leaders tried to industrialize their nation, much as China's leaders are attempting today. Self-strengthening projects in industry and the military were implemented to increase China's wealth and power and to protect the country from further colonization by the Western powers of the nineteenth century.
McFarland, 2009. — 252 p. In 1900 in China a peasant movement known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppressors. The culminating event of the Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the Western legations in Peking. In isolated Peking, a horde of brightly dressed, acrobatic, anti-Western and anti-Christian Boxers surrounded the fortified diplomatic legation...
Harvard University Press, 1995. — 287 p. Dazzled by the model of Japan's Western-style constitutional government, Chinese officials and elite activists made plans to establish locally elected councils. By October 1911, government agencies had reported the establishment of about 5,000 councils. Throughout the period, data on self-government reforms collected from localities were...
Brill, 2024. — 261 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 161). Who was Yang Tinghe? Despite being one of Ming China’s most eminent officials, Yang and his career have long eluded scholarly study in the West. In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores...
Stanford University Press, 1992. — 344 p. A monumental study of collective violence in the premodern world, this book analyzes all instances of rebellion and banditry recorded in 1,097 counties in China during the 277 years of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The assembled evidence constitutes the largest annual, county-level time-series on collective violence events in any part...
Boston, 2016. — 238 p. — (China Studies, Vol. 34). In Muslim Sanzijing, Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China (1710-2010) Roberta Tontini traces the development of Islam and Islamic law in the country, while responding to two enduring questions in China’s intellectual history: How was the Muslim sharia reconciled with Confucianism? How was knowledge of...
LSU Press, 2013. — 432 p. When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah would marry, and their son Chester, born in Hubei...
Columbia University Press, 1993. — 375 p. Hong Kong in Chinese History examines community and social unrest in the British colony and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia, and laborers all played important roles in the colony's and China's social and political movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the first years of the Chinese Republic. Hong Kong occupies a...
University of Washington Press, 2001. — 296 p. A colorful portrait of the greatest of the Ming emperors. Builder of the Great Wall, Yongle also moved the capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, completed the Grand Canal, strengthened the court bureaucracy, and explored the world.
State University of New York Press, 1995. — 312 p. This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Extracted from a wide range of primary and secondary source material, the author provides significant and interesting information about court politics, espionage and internal...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1990. — 325 p. Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's 'response to the West.' This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western, goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. — xlvii, 443 p., plates. — ISBN: 9789888139323. 香港：香港大學出版社, 2016. The first volume also contains a chapter on the uses of written contracts in trade, and a chapter on the Canton junk trade to Southeast Asia. I analyse the contents of 64 contracts that are reproduced in the plate section of that volume. The appendixes also contain...
Hong Kong University Press, 2007. — 335 p. This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom-up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the trade by focusing on the practices and procedures rather than...
Harvard University Press, 1977. — 445 p. The International Context of the Sino-Siamese Trade. The Siamese Trading Structure. Initial Period, 1652-1720: Chinese Restrictions On Trade. The Sino-Siamese-Japanese Triangular Trade. The Abrogation of the Second Maritime Ban and the Role of the Rice Trade. Southeast China’s Trade Organizations in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth...
Warwick: Helion and Company, 2024. — 272 p. — (Century of the Soldier 116). New research on an army that details the military system of Qing China, which fought a variety of enemies ranging from Ming Chinese, Mongols, and Tibetans to Russians and Western Colonial armies. This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lies on the Qing...
2nd ed.— Shanghai: North-China Herald Office, 1903. — 210 p. Letter On the Province of Hunan Letter On the Han River, near Fan-ching, Province of Hupeh Report on the Provinces of Honan and Shansi Letter on the Provinces of Chekiang and Nganhwei Letter on the Region of Nanking and Chinkiang Letter on the Mahomedan Rebellion in Kansu Letter on the Interruption of Journey in...
2nd ed. — Shanghai: North-China Herald Office, 1903. — 210 p. Letter On the Province of Hunan Letter On the Han River, near Fan-ching, Province of Hupeh Report on the Provinces of Honan and Shansi Letter on the Provinces of Chekiang and Nganhwei Letter on the Region of Nanking and Chinkiang Letter on the Mahomedan Rebellion in Kansu Letter on the Interruption of Journey in...
Free Press, 1977. — 304 p. This is an excellent introduction to politics and structural change during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). In accessible and engaging prose, Wakeman concentrates on how power was organized and what led the most prosperous and perhaps most powerful country in the world to collapse into rebellion and foreign domination before finally breaking apart under...
University of California Press, 1986. — 1354 p. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of Heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. It begins with the rise of the Manchus...
University of California Press, 1975. — 328 p. The essays collected in this volume expose the social forces within China that governed historical change long before the Opium War (1839-1842) began. Instead of focusing on the response of the Ch'ing dynasty to the West in the nineteenth century, the social historians who have collaborated on this book treat the period from the...
University of California Press, 1997. — 287 p. Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history. Wakeman shows...
Routledge, 2005. — 258 p. This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side.
Монография — London: I.B.Tauris, 2006 — 160 pp. — ISBN: 1845111591. In this book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China, showing how emperors underpinned military expansion with a wide-ranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into...
Yale University Press, 1991. — 285 p. Banishment to Xinjiang ranked second in severity only to death in Qing law. Initiated immediately upon the addition of that Central Asian frontier to the Chinese empire, it became a vital element of both the legal system and the project of colonizing the new frontier. In this book Joanna Waley-Cohen traces the establishment and initial...
University of Hawaii Press, 1990. — 248 p. Anthropological Perspectives. Comparative Perspectives. Procreation, Adoption, and Heredity. The Need for Heirs. Adoption Defined. Magic Fungus and Fine Wine: Ideas about Heredity. Heredity in Fiction. Heredity in Medical Texts. Attitudes toward Adoption. The Prohibition: Law and Ritual. Consequences of Adoption in Legal and Ritual...
Columbia University, 2017. — 275 p. This dissertation analyzes the dilemmas of governance that confronted the Chinese state under the Ming dynasty. These dilemmas, I argue, arose from the Ming's dual existence as an empire (a state that ruled over a large territory) and a bureaucracy (a state that ruled through written documents and hierarchically-structured offices). As a...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 644 p. This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 332 p. Scholars of Daoism in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) have paid particular attention to the interaction between the court and certain Daoist priests and to the political results of such interaction; the focus has been on either emperors or Daoist masters. Yet in the Ming era, a special group of people patronized Daoism and Daoist...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 318 p. Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in Canton Trade named Houqua (1769-1843), who lived in isolated Qing China, gives us an outstanding...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 339 p. The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820 CE) has long occupied an awkward position in studies of China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911). Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post-Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been glossed over as an unremarkable interlude...
Leiden University, 2016. — 396 p. This thesis illuminates painting inscriptions written in the Ming dynasty (1368-164) in a social context, revealing that inscriptions as a particular genre of text richly encompass themes relevant but not confined to social history, material culture, early modern publishing, identity construction, and self-knowledge. This thesis argues that...
Brill, 2020. — 336 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 149). In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique 'xiangshu' (physiognomy), and investigates its unique 'somatic cosmology' in Ming religious and intellectual context.
Lexington Books, 2011. — 265 p. China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by redrawing...
Harvard University Press, 1974. — 192 p. Imperial China cannot be understood without an examination of its fiscal base. In his pioneering study, Yeh-chien Wang for the first time provides a reliable estimate and an in-depth analysis of China’s principal source of public revenue—the land tax—in the Ch’ing period. The purpose of this study is to inquire how the land-tax system...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 300 p. Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish,...
Columbia University Press, 1972. — 340 p. Introduction: Ching administration as a subject of western: some personal considerations. The office and its incumbents. Powers of the district magistrate. Qualifications of district magistrates: Intellectual attainment. The path to office: Appointment. Length of service and subsequent career. Influence of classical theory on the role...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. — 356 p. Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the...
Brill, 2013. — 389 p. The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Cheng-kungalias Coxingaand his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in Chinas southeastern coastal provinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.
Berlin: Verlagsbuchhandlung Alfred Schall, 1908. — 239 s. mit über 145 Illustrationen. Einer Anregung des Herrn Geheimen Admiralitätsrats und Hafenbaudirektors Georg Franzius in Kiel verdankt dies Buch seine Entstehung. Vor zehn Jahren hat der Geheimrat Franzius seine Reise nach Kiautschou und das, was er dort von Land und Leuten gesehen und gehört, in seinem Buche „Kiautschou“...
University of Washington Press, 2013. — 208 p. This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities' attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state's quest for hegemony, the locals clung...
Basic Books, 2012. — 528 p. As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world’s second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (1870). — 481 p. Scottish missionary Alexander Williamson (1829–90) spent several years preaching in northern China. From 1863 to 1866, he was there as the first overseas agent of the National Bible Society of Scotland. During this time, he travelled as far as Mongolia and Manchuria, a considerable undertaking in those days. He later...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (1870). — 463 p. Scottish missionary Alexander Williamson (1829–90) spent several years preaching in northern China. From 1863 to 1866, he was there as the first overseas agent of the National Bible Society of Scotland. During this time, he travelled as far as Mongolia and Manchuria, a considerable undertaking in those days. He later...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 298 p. — ISBN: 1139494260, 9781139494267. China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 297 p. China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 255 p. In 1898, near the projected intersection of the Chinese Eastern Railroad (the last leg of the Trans-Siberian) and China’s Sungari River, Russian engineers founded the city of Harbin. Between the survey of the site and the profound dislocations of the 1917 revolution, Harbin grew into a bustling multiethnic urban center with over 100,000...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 570 p. Many have accepted that the Arrow War (1856-1860) was caused by an insult to the British flag belonging to the pirate boat Arrow. Dr. Wong argues that Britain's reliance on the opium trade with China played a far greater role in pushing the diplomatic conflict into war. The war was not a simple diplomatic squabble: it involved vital...
Springer Singapore, 2017. — 243 p. This is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in the seventeenth century, presenting for the first time the process leading to the island’s integration with the mainland through the story of the...
Brill, 2000. — 558 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 48). How did the Chinese in the 19th century deal with the enormous influx of Western science? What were the patterns behind this watershed in Chinese intellectual history? This work deals with those responsible for the translation of science, the major issues they were confronted with, and their struggles; the Chinese translators views...
Yale University Press, 1968. — 505 p. Great themes run through this book: local differentiation and societal integration, reform and revolution, innovation and renewal, conservatism and radicalism, tradition and modernity. All relate to the fascinating dialectic of Chinese history. This comment by G. William Skinner aptly describes this pioneering volume in which twelve...
Stanford University Press, 1962. — 443 p. The Tongzhi Restoration (1862–1874) was an attempt to arrest the dynastic decline of the Qing dynasty by restoring the traditional order. The harsh realities of the Opium War, the unequal treaties, and the mid-century mass uprisings of the Taiping Rebellion caused Qing officials to recognize the need to strengthen China. The Tongzhi...
Cambria Press, 2010. — 302 p. In this first critical study of Zheng Guanying's career, cultural milieu, political and economic thoughts, as well as his spirituality, Guo Wu steers us into examining Zheng Guanying as a hybrid product of the late Qing treaty port culture, professionalism, and tradition, and he illuminates the contribution that this Chinese merchant made in the...
Brill, 2016. — 190 p. — (Religion in Chinese Societies 11). In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they areroutinely portrayed as belonging to the same esoteric tradition,...
Stanford University Press, 2015. — 280 p. From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for...
Harvard University Press, 1970. — 220 p. A classic, seminal monograph. In this definitive account of the institutional growth of Ch’ing autocracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Silas Wu presents an illuminating analysis of communication and decision-making as parts of the power process and government administration in the Chinese state. He examines the...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 316 p. From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between merchants and objects? Luxurious...
State University of New York Press, 2021. — 288 p. The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers a new, comparative, and...
Brill, 2011. — 372 p. — (China Studies 21). Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more...
Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. — 296 p. The Qing Dynasty was a feudal institution established by the upper dominant class of the Manchu ethnic minority; it was also the last of the feudal autocratic monarchy dynasties in China’s long history. This account presents the history of the Manchurian rise, flourishing, decline, and demise and details the development, creation,...
Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. — 224 p. The Qing Dynasty was a feudal institution established by the upper dominant class of the Manchu ethnic minority—and the last of the feudal autocratic monarchy dynasties in China’s long history. This book provides an account of the history of the Manchurian rise, their peak and decline, and their eventual demise, but, above all, it...
Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. — 336 p. The Qing Dynasty was a feudal institution established by the upper dominant class of the Manchu ethnic minority—and the last of the feudal autocratic monarchy dynasties in China’s long history. This book provides an account of the history of the Manchurian rise, their peak and decline, and their eventual demise, but, above all, it...
Enrich Professional Publishing, 2012. — 352 p. The Qing Dynasty was a feudal institution established by the upper dominant class of the Manchu ethnic minority—and the last of the feudal autocratic monarchy dynasties in China’s long history. This book provides an account of the history of the Manchurian rise, their peak and decline, and their eventual demise, but, above all, it...
Brill, 2006. — 301 p. This book is a case study of the Dutch East India Company's tea trade with China, dealing with the phase of 1757-1781, the longest and most important and profitable phase of the Dutch Company's China trade. It focuses on the question why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia and put under the supervision of the...
Imperial Government of Manchoukuo. — 新京：滿洲帝國政府，1938年. — 100頁. Trilingual descriptions of photos English, German and Italian, and Japanese. Wakaki Manshu: shashin ni miru. Manciu-Cuo vigoroso nei fotografi, Die Junge Mandschurei in Bildern.
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 357 p. First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618-907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-Fang...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 325 p. Why did modern capitalism not arise in late imperial China? One famous answer comes from Max Weber, whose The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism gave a canonical analysis of religious and cultural factors in early modern European economic development. In The Religions of China, Weber contended that China lacked the crucial...
University of Minnesota Press, 2006. — 328 p. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and...
Краткая история войны между Японией и Китаем. Осака, Токио. 1895. - 150 с. Язык английский. Очень красивые иллюстрации, выполненные тушью. 9 иллюстраций и 10 карт. Книга рассказывает о войне во второй половине 19-го века. Содержание
- Introduction
- Causes of War
- Diplomatic Negotiations
- Phungdo, Asan, and Proclamations of War
- Battle of Phyongyang
- Battle of Haiyang
-...
Brill, 2017. — 255 p. — (Global Economic History Series 13/2; The Quantitative Economic History of China 13/2). The history of customs duties reflects the development of the Qing fiscal system, especially in its transition from a rather traditional to a more modern economy. Mainly based on Qing archives, this book, the first research monograph on this subject in the English...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 256 p. In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In response to the commercial revolutions of the late 1500s, Chinese intellectuals and officials called for the end of state intervention in the market, recognizing its power to...
UBC Press, 2017. — 233 p. Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated...
Stanford University Press, 2004. — 401 p. The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as...
Routledge, 2020. — 190 p. The Land Question in China traces the roots of the industrious revolution in China back to the eighteenth century, drawing comparisons between contemporary rural development and economic prosperity in the mid-Qing dynasty. In the context of neoliberal restructuring, it argues that vigorous rural development with broad access to land offers a solution...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 438 p. Intelligentsia has been a widely used term in the studies of history and society to describe intellectual, academic, educational and publishing circles. Zhang Qing analyses the formation of Chinese intelligentsia in the context of modern China, more specifically the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China, and addresses topics such as the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 441 p. How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that...
Ams Press, 1973. — 167 p. China–Portugal trade relations can be traced back all the way to 1514 during the Ming dynasty of China. The first official Portuguese visit was Fernão Pires de Andrade mission to Guangzhou (1517–1518) during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was fairly successful, and the local Chinese authorities allowed the embassy, led by Tomé Pires and brought by de...
University of Washington Press, 2020. — 265 p. Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China's legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Publishers not only extended circulation of the dynastic code and other...
BRILL, 2020. — 108 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences). Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture.
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 267 p. Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalisation? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500. Others have placed China at the center of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China's maritime policies. Drawing on...
University of Hawaii Press, 2001. — 387 p. This work is the result of more than a decade of research on the Chinese household and lineage in the southeastern province of Fujian during the Ming and Qing period (1368-1911). It offers new interpretations of the Chinese domestic cycle, the relationship between household and larger kinship groups, and the development of lineage...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. — 388 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-86985-4 This book examines the Westernization Movement in modern Chinese History, in the latter 19th century and the economic impact on manufacturing and enterprise evolution. It examines the rise, development, and performance of this movement on both the micro and macro-levels. This book reveals achievements in technology...
Brill, 2015. — 384 p. Rereading Modern Chinese History is a collection of short essays on aspects of the history of the Qing royal 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 Imperial rule.
Brill, 1999. — 408 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 44). The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of...
М.: Восточная литература, 1958. — 312 с. Дневники В. М. Алексеева, молодого энтузиаста своей науки, синологии, совершившего научную экспедицию по Северо-Восточному Китаю, широко знакомят читателей с китайской культурой, дают яркую картину порядков, существовавших в тогдашнем Китае. Дневники Алексеева существенно отличается от обычных путевых очерков, главное в них — размышления...
С. -Петербург, 1900. - 103 с.
Книга посвящена взаимоотношениям России и Китая в Маньчжурском вопросе.
Петр Алексеевич Бадмаев (1851-1920) - российский учёный, дипломат, исследователь Востока, известный врач и основоположник врачебной науки Тибета в европейской части России. После революции 1917 года его имя было незаслуженно забыто. Получив после окончания Петербургского...
СПб.: Пушкинская скоропечатня, 1909. — 146 с.
Картины быта Китая конца XIX века даны в форме биографии мальчика Вана: его детство в деревне, учеба и подготовка к экзамену, неудача, встреча с миссионерами и разбойниками, тюрьма и неожиданное освобождение.
СПб.: Пушкинская скоропечатня, 1909. — 146 с.
Картины быта Китая конца XIX века даны в форме биографии мальчика Вана: его детство в деревне, учеба и подготовка к экзамену, неудача, встреча с миссионерами и разбойниками, тюрьма и неожиданное освобождение.
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Императорской Академии наук, 1840. — 436 с. Иакинф Бичурин (1777-1853) - замечательный знаток китайского языка, оставивший целый ряд сочинений, оригинальных и переводных, о Китае и сопредельных странах. Воспитывался в Казанской семинарии; приняв монашество, был назначен архимандритом Вознесенского монастыря в Иркутске. В 1807 г. определен начальником...
Санкт-Петербург: тип-я Э. Праца, 1844. - 113 с. Описание: «Основание земледелия в Китае положено, если верить преданиям, за 2700 лет до Р.Х. [.] Первые опыты земледелия, как уверяет китайская история, начались посевом проса и саждением овощей, особенно бобов и гороха. В те времена еще не знали ни одного из нынешних земледельческих орудий; землю копали деревянным заступом;...
М.: Восточный Дом, 2002. - 423 с. — (Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения). К.М.Тертицкий, составление, предисловие, примечания. А.Н.Хохлов, вступительная статья. ISBN 5-89737-104-0 Книга является вторым томом трудов известного российского китаеведа Н.Я.Бичурина, издаваемых в серии «Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения». В работе подробно...
М.: Восточный Дом, 2002. - 423 с. — (Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения). К.М.Тертицкий, составление, предисловие, примечания. А.Н.Хохлов, вступительная статья. ISBN 5-89737-104-0 Книга является вторым томом трудов известного российского китаеведа Н.Я.Бичурина, издаваемых в серии «Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения». В работе подробно...
М.: Восточный Дом, 2002. - 432 с. (Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения)
ISBN: 5-89737-104-0
Книга является вторым томом трудов известного российского китаеведа Н.Я.Бичурина, издаваемых в серии `Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения`. В работе подробно рассматриваются государственное устройство, уголовное право, система образования и...
Перевод с китайского под редакцией монаха Иакинома. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография А. Смирдина, 1829. — 130 с. Исследование известного востоковеда Н.Я. Бичурина (о. Иакинфа) посвящено описание столицы Китая – Пекина. В очерке приводятся данные по истории города, его архитектуре. Предуведомление переводчика. Введение. Описание Пекина. -Цзы-цзинь-чен. -Хуан-чен. Восточная сторона....
Текст воспроизведен по изданию: Описание Пекина с приложением плана сей столицы, снятого в 1817 году. Переведено с китайского монахом Иакинфом. СПб. 1829 /// Экземпляр библиотеки им. В. И. Ленина.
М.: Восточный Дом, 2002. - 464 с. (Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения).
ISBN: 5-89737-100-8.
Книга является первым томом трудов известного российского китаеведа Н.Я. Бичурина, издаваемых в серии `Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения`. Первая часть тома содержит обширные сведения о географии, политическом устройстве, уголовном законодательстве,...
М.: Восточный Дом, 2002. - 464 с. (Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения)
ISBN: 5-89737-100-8.
Книга является первым томом трудов известного российского китаеведа Н.Я. Бичурина, издаваемых в серии `Классика отечественного и зарубежного востоковедения`. Первая часть тома содержит обширные сведения о географии, политическом устройстве, уголовном законодательстве,...
СПб.: типография Эдуарда Праца, 1842. — 323 с. Н. Я. Бичурин (1777-1853) - один из классиков отечественной ориенталистики, заложивший основы российской синологии XIX века. В эту серию войдут, прежде всего, наиболее известные китаеведческие работы Бичурина, не переиздававшиеся почти столетие, - книги Статистическое описание Китайской империи. СПб., 1842 (2-е изд. - Пекин, 1910)...
СПб: Печатня Р. Голике, 1901. — 79 с.: ил. В книге кратко изложены причины Ихэтуаньского восстания в Китае в 1900-1901 г. и ход его подавления международными (русские, немцы, англичане, американцы, французы, японцы и др.) военными силами. В первую очередь речь идет, конечно, о русских воинах. Далее в книге освящается деятельность русских отделений Красного Креста в Китае в ходе...
М.: Наука, 1984. - 300 с.
В монографии рассматривается история проникновения в Китай первых сведений о социалистических теориях и социалистическом движении стран Запада. Исследуется влияние собственной утопической традиции на процесс восприятия китайским обществом западных учений, анализируются взгляды крупнейших теоретиков того времени ‒ Кан Ювэя, Лян Цичао, Сунь Ятсена, их...
Москва: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1984. — 296 с.
В монографии рассматривается история проникновения в Китай первых сведений о социалистических теориях и социалистическом движении стран Запада. Исследуется влияние собственной утопической традиции на процесс восприятия китайским обществом западных учений, анализируются взгляды крупнейших...
М.: в типографии типографической компании, 1788. - 603 с.
Одно из первых сочинений европейцев по истории Китая вообще и о маньчжурском завоевании, в частности. Автор затрагивает вопросы происхождения маньчжуров, их появления в Китае, внутренней политики династии Мин и состояния Китая в середине XVII в., боевых действий армии Мин с маньчжурами и восставшим крестьянством.
СПб.: Типо-литография П.И. Шмидта, 1885. – 322 с. «Записки о Китае» принадлежат перу жены французского дипломата в Китае госпоже де Бурбулон, которая описала свои впечатления от знакомства с удивительной и столь не похожей на Европу китайской цивилизацией середины—второй половины XIX в. Voyage en Chine et en Mongolie de m. de Bourboulon, ministre de France, et de madame de...
Пекин: Издательство китайской литературы, 1992. - 580 с. 北京，中华书局 1992年. Монография включает 3 раздела： 1840-1870гг. - история изучения японцами опыта Китая в области применения европейской культуры и опыта политического контакта с Европейскими странами. 1871-1900гг. - история изучения китайцами опыта реформирования Японии в эпоху Мэйдзи. 1900 -1919гг. - история кросскультурного...
СПб.: Тип. Э. Арнгольда, 1903 г. - 227 с. с ил. Путевые очерки и заметки русского офицера о Китае начала XX столетия. В 1900 году Александр Верещагин получил назначение на Дальний Восток, а в 1901-1902 годах совершил несколько поездок по китайским провинциям, посетил Харбин, Порт-Артур, Мукден, Пекин. По материалам этих путешествий и была написана книга «В Китае». Не только...
Издательство: Типография Э. Арнгольда, 1903. - 227 с.
В 1900 году Александр Верещагин получил назначение на Дальний Восток, а в 1901-1902 годах совершил несколько поездок по китайским провинциям, посетил Харбин, Порт-Артур, Мукден, Пекин. По материалам этих путешествий и была написана книга «В Китае». Не только страсть к путешествию влекла Верещагина, он стремился «пожить с...
Владивосток: Издательство Дальневосточного университета, 1993. — 176 с. Вниманию читателей предлагается биография выдающегося государственного деятеля цинского Китая Линь Цзэсюя (1785—1850 гг.), известного борца за искоренение опиумоторговли в стране, решительно выступавшего за сопротивление иностранному вмешательству. Не менее существенным является его вклад в развитие...
Лекция, прочитанная в Высшей партийной школе при ЦК ВКП(б). — М.: Типография ВПШ, 1952. — 20 с. Китай после подавления тайпинского восстания. Китайский демократ Сунь Ят-сен. Японо-китайская война 1894—1895 годов и начало раздела Китая империалистами на «сферы влияния». Буржуазные либералы и 100 дней реформ. Народное антиимпериалистическое восстание 1900 года. Русская революция...
М.: Изд-во восточной лит-ры, 1959. - 194 с.
Книга посвящена истории первой буржуазно-демократической революционной партии Китая. В книге рассказывается о ранней революционной деятельности Сунь Ятсена, даётся анализ программы Лиги, освещена роль Лиги в подготовке революции 1911-1912 гг. и в руководстве ею. На примере Лиги автор показывает роль национальной буржуазии Китая на...
Учебное пособие. - Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2004
предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по историческим и филологическим специальностям, а также аспирантов, изучающих китайский язык, историю и страноведение Китая, а также всех, кто интересуется историей и культурой Китая.
Важно: это скан с копии книги, книга была в формате, меньше чем А4, поэтому слева - белая полоса...
М. "Крафт+", Институт востоковедения РАН, 2000. - 256 с.
В книге рассматривается история проникновения в Китай первой иезуитской миссии, больше двухсот лет выполнявшей функции форпоста европейского влияния при дворе императоров династий Мин и Цин. Автор рисует широкий фон, на котором действовали яркие личности, принадлежавшие к ордену Иисуса, которые предоставили в распоряжение...
М.: Крафт+, Институт востоковедения РАН, 2000. — 256 с. В книге рассматривается история проникновения в Китай первой иезуитской миссии, больше двухсот лет выполнявшей функции форпоста европейского влияния при дворе императоров династий Мин и Цин. Автор рисует широкий фон, на котором действовали яркие личности, принадлежавшие к ордену Иисуса, которые предоставили в распоряжение...
Москва: Крафт+, 2000. — 256 с. — ISBN 5-89282-164-1. В книге рассматривается история проникновения в Китай первой иезуитской миссии, больше двухсот лет выполнявшей функции форпоста европейского влияния при дворе императоров династий Мин и Цин. Автор рисует широкий фон, на котором действовали яркие личности, принадлежавшие к ордену Иисуса, которые предоставили в распоряжение...
М.; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1936. — 256 с. — (Труды Института востоковедения Академии наук СССР. XX.) Данная работа является диссертацией на степень кандидата наук, защищенной автором в апреле 1935 г. Освещая вопросы, связанные с коренным переломом в истории Восточного Туркестана и Джунгарии, автор питает надежду, что избранная им тема в одинаковой мере будет...
М.: Наука. ГРВЛ, 1987. — 133 с. Введение. Межгосударственные отношения цинского Китая с Кореей. Торгово-экономические отношения между Китаем и Кореей в 1876—1910 гг. Переселение корейцев в Маньчжурию. Заключение. Примечания. Список используемой литературы. Указатель имён. Указатель географических названий.
Пер. с кит., введ., примеч. и прил. Н.П. Свистуновой. — М. : Издательство восточной литературы, 2019. — 550 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока CXIII, 4). Настоящая работа является заключительной, четвертой частью перевода на русский язык «Законов Великой династии Мин», первые три части которого были опубликованы в 1997, 2002 и 2012 гг. В четвертую часть вошли два последних...
Москва: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1967. — 396 с.
Книга посвящена крупнейшему в истории Китая крестьянскому восстанию. На основании широкого круга источников автор дает изложение хода военных действий, характеристику государственной и военной организации повстанцев, их социально-экономической и внешней политики.
Москва: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1967. — 396 с.
Книга посвящена крупнейшему в истории Китая крестьянскому восстанию. На основании широкого круга источников автор дает изложение хода военных действий, характеристику государственной и военной организации повстанцев, их социально-экономической и внешней политики.
М.: Издательство Восточной литературы, 1960. - 336 с.
Тайпинское восстание 1850—1864 гг. является выдающимся событием в истории героической борьбы китайского народа за свое освобождение и одной из наиболее крупных антифеодальных крестьянских войн в истории человечества. Не случайно с глубоким вниманием следил за ним К. Маркс, написавший две специальные статьи о тайпинах....
М.: Издательство Восточной литературы, 1960. — 336 с.
Тайпинское восстание 1850—1864 гг. является выдающимся событием в истории героической борьбы китайского народа за свое освобождение и одной из наиболее крупных антифеодальных крестьянских войн в истории человечества. Не случайно с глубоким вниманием следил за ним К. Маркс, написавший две специальные статьи о тайпинах....
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1978. — 365 с. Монография посвящена антииностранному выступлению в Китае на рубеже XIX и XX веков под руководством союза «Ихэтуань». В книге исследуются происхождение союза, его идеология, организационные формы, программа и лозунги повстанцев, их социальный состав, политика центрального правительства и местных властей. Введение. Усиление агрессии держав в Китае...
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1978. — 365 с. Монография посвящена антииностранному выступлению в Китае на рубеже XIX и XX вв. под руководством союза «Ихэтуань». В книге исследуются происхождение союза, его идеология, организационные формы, программа и лозунги повстанцев, их социальный состав, политика центрального правительства и местных властей. Введение. Усиление агрессии держав в Китае в...
2-е изд. — М.: Учпедгиз, 1950. — 144 с., илл., карта
Книга, посвящённая тайпинскому восстанию, является лишь частью большого научного наследства, которое оставил советский историк-китаевед Г.С. Кара-Мурза (1906-1945), написавший несколько десятков ценных работ по истории Китая. Некоторые из работ Г. С. Кара-Мурза были переведены на китайский язык и изданы в Китае.
2-е изд. — М.: Учпедгиз, 1950. — 144 с., илл., карта
Книга, посвящённая тайпинскому восстанию, является лишь частью большого научного наследства, которое оставил советский историк-китаевед Г.С. Кара-Мурза (1906-1945), написавший несколько десятков ценных работ по истории Китая. Некоторые из работ Г.С. Кара-Мурза были переведены на китайский язык и изданы в Китае.
М.: Ред. журн.: "Детское чтение" и "Педагогический листок", 1900 (обл. 1901). — 68 с. Работа посвящена Ихэтуаньскому восстанию, анализу событий, приведших к интервенции 8 держав.
СПб., тип. А. С. Суворина, 1901. – 418с.
Книга является мемуарами В.В.Корсакова, врача Российского Дипломатического представительства в Пекине на рубеже XIX-XX вв. Она рассказывает о событиях, связанных с восстанием ихэтуаней в Китае (1898 - 1900 гг.).
Москва: Наука, 1980. — 201 с. В монографии на большом фактическом материале исследуется одно из крупных восстаний в Китае XIX в. — восстание, поднятое в Шанхае тайной организацией «Союз малых мечей». Автор освещает взаимоотношения «Союза малых мечей» с иностранными державами, для которых Шанхай в то время был важным пунктом активного проникновения в центральные районы Китая. В...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1983. — 128 с. — (История и культура Востока Азии). В монографии, основанной на исчерпывающем использовании китайских источников, исследованы действия цинского Китая в Восточном Туркестане. Книга является первым в советской и зарубежной литературе фундаментальным исследованием по данной проблеме и представляет интерес не только для специалистов-востоковедов,...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1983. — 128 с. — (История и культура Востока Азии). В монографии, основанной на исчерпывающем использовании китайских источников, исследованы действия цинского Китая в Восточном Туркестане. Книга является первым в советской и зарубежной литературе фундаментальным исследованием по данной проблеме и представляет интерес не только для специалистов-востоковедов,...
Введение.
Культура и быт населения Китая в XVI – XIX веках.
Литература.
Искусство.
Архитектура.
Повседневная жизнь китайцев.
Реформаторское движение Китая.
Заключение.
Список литературы.
Новосибирск: Наука. Сибирское отделение, 1986. — 148 с. — (Страны и народы). Книга посвящена истории маньчжуров и деятельности первого маньчжурского императора Абахая. В ней рассказывается о формировании маньчжурского государства и распространении власти Цинской империи на северные области Китая. Для широкого круга читателей.
М.: Белые альвы, 2000. — 192 с. — ISBN: 5-7619-0049-1. Эта книга, подготовленная к изданию известным отечественным китаеведом В. В. Малявиным, содержит первый полный перевод на русский язык знаменитого древнекитайского канона «Тридцать шесть стратагем». В ней раскрыты секреты победы над любым противником и в любых обстоятельствах. По-видимому, первоначально трактат имел...
М.: Белые альвы, 2000. — 192 с. — ISBN 5-7619-0049-1. Эта книга, подготовленная к изданию известным отечественным китаеведом В.В. Малявиным, содержит первый полный перевод на русский язык знаменитого древнекитайского канона 'Тридцать шесть стратагем". В ней раскрыты секреты победы над любым противником и в любых обстоятельствах. Невидимому, первоначально трактат имел хождение...
М.: Белые альвы, 2000. — 192 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-76-19-0049-1. Эта книга, подготовленная к изданию известным отечественным китаеведом В.В. Малявиным, содержит первый полный перевод на русский язык знаменитого древнекитайского канона "Тридцать шесть стратагем". В ней раскрыты секреты победы над любым противником и в любых обстоятельствах. Повидимому, первоначально трактат имел...
М.: Белые альвы, 2000. — 192 с., ил. — ISBN 5-76-19-0049-1. Эта книга, подготовленная к изданию известным отечественным китаеведом В.В. Малявиным, содержит первый полный перевод на русский язык знаменитого древнекитайского канона "Тридцать шесть стратагем". В ней раскрыты секреты победы над любым противником и в любых обстоятельствах. Повидимому, первоначально трактат имел...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 247 с. В книге на китайских документах раскрывается захватническая политика Маньчжурского государства на Дальнем Востоке в конце XVI – XVII в., история консолидации маньчжурских племен и характер взаимоотношений маньчжуров и народностей Приамурья и Приморья, система управления Северо-Востоком и хозяйственное освоение этого района цинскими властями, а также...
Барнаул: АзБука, 2003. - 346 с. На базе широкого круга архивных материалов и опубликованных документов в книге исследуются узловые вопросы русско-китайских отношений в Центральной Азии во второй половине XIX - 1917 г. Работа рассчитана на научных сотрудников, преподавателей, аспирантов, всех интересующихся историей международных отношений в центральной Азии. Содержание Введение...
Ин-т востоковедения РАН. — М.: Восточная литература, 2005. — 712 с.: карты. — ISBN: 5-02-018400-4. В книге рассматривается история Китая с XVII по начало XX в., когда в стране правила маньчжурская династия Цин. Первая часть посвящена таким событиям завершающего цикла эволюции традиционного общества, как Крестьянская война второй четверти XVII в., маньчжурское завоевание Китая и...
Ин-т востоковедения РАН. — М.: Восточная литература, 2005. — 712 с.: карты. — ISBN: 5-02-018400-4. В книге рассматривается история Китая с XVII по начало XX в., когда в стране правила маньчжурская династия Цин. Первая часть посвящена таким событиям завершающего цикла эволюции традиционного общества, как Крестьянская война второй четверти XVII в., маньчжурское завоевание Китая и...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 370 с. В книге рассматриваются изменения в экономике и социальном строе Китая в период между японо-китайской и первой мировой войнами. Большое внимание уделено кризису феодализма, становлению переходного общества, воздействию мирового рынка и расширению в стране капиталистического уклада. Разбираются проблемы укрепления иностранного сектора, подъема фабричной...
М.: Наука, 1980. - 370 с. В книге рассматриваются изменения в экономике и социальном строе Китая в период между японо-китайской и первой мировой войнами. Большое внимание уделено кризису феодализма, становлению переходного общества, воздействию мирового рынка и расширению в стране капиталистического уклада. Разбираются проблемы укрепления иностранного сектора, подъема фабричной...
М.: Восточная литература, 1999. — 334 с. Книга представляет собой комплексное проблемное исследование полуколониального полуфеодального Китая второй половины XIX - первой половины XX в. Работа посвящена распаду феодальной формации и затяжному общественному кризису в крупнейшей стране Востока. Центральной проблемой здесь является синтез традиционного и современного как...
М.: Наука. 1968. - 276 с. Аннотация издательства: Документы и материалы, содержащиеся в сборнике, раскрывают характер и ход движения ихэтуаней — антиимпериалистического восстания в Китае (восстание «боксёров») в конце XIX — начале XX в. Особенно ценными являются документы, составленные самими участниками восстания, — прокламации, песни, гимны, которые позволяют судить об...
М.: Наука. 1968. — 276 с.
Документы и материалы, содержащиеся в сборнике, раскрывают характер и ход движения ихэтуаней — антиимпериалистического восстания в Китае (восстание «боксёров») в конце XIX — начале XX в. Особенно ценными являются документы, составленные самими участниками восстания, — прокламации, песни, гимны, которые позволяют судить об идеологии повстанцев, их...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1978. — 61 с. с ил. Документальная повесть в увлекательной форме знакомит с историей похищения лидера китайского революционного движения Сунь Ят-сена сотрудниками дипломатической миссии императорского Китая в Лондоне во время пребывания китайского революционера в английской столице в 1896 году. 600 dpi (текстовой слой). Скан:...
М.: Университетская типография, 1820. — 426 с. Книга посвящена описанию историю, географии, этнографии, обычаев и быта жителей Китайской империи с древнейших времен до начала XIX века.
СПб.: Издание книгопродавца А.А. Холмушина, 1900. — 32 с. 5-го Августа Государь Император соизволил отправить на имя генерала Леневича депешу следующего содержания. Чифу. Генералу Леневичу. «Искренно приветствую вас быстрым занятием Пекина. За одержанные вами победы жалую Вам орден святого Георгия З-й степени. Молодецким сибирским войскам Мое горячее спасибо. Представьте...
Москва: Товарищество Владимир Чичерин, 1900. - 70 с. Книга представляет собой краткий очерк географии и истории положения Китая на рубеже XIX-XX веков.
Сост. Э. Паркер, (б. королев. консул в Цзюнь-Чжоу, ныне проф. кит. яз. в Ливерпул. ун-те) ; пер. с англ. – 2 изд. д. чл. Рус. геогр. о-ва Ген. штаба полк. Грулев. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография Тренке и Фюсно, 1903. — 569 с.
СПб.: издание А.Д.Попова, 1910. — XI, [4], 232, [2] с., с илл. С 28-ю портретами китайских общественных и политических деятелей. Автор книги, Аркадий Николаевич Петров (1881-1938) - известный востоковед-экономист, преподаватель дальневосточных и московских вузов, доктор Императорского Китайского института в Тяньцзине, член-учредитель Сообщества русскихъ ориенталистов. Автор...
СПб.: Типография Ю.Н. Эрлиха, 1897. — 325 с.
В труде русского востоковеда Дмитрия Матвеевича Позднеева (1865—1937) описывается географическое местоположение, а также историческое и экономическое развитие Маньчжурии.
СПб.: Типография Ю.Н. Эрлиха, 1897. Во втором томе труда Д.М.Позднеева содержатся приложения и таблицы к первому тому, посвященному исследованию географии, экономики и истории Маньчжурии.
Оренбург: Типография Оренбургской Духовной Консистории, 1896. — 71 с. — (Известия Оренбургского отдела Императорского Русского географического общества).
Книга представляет собой дневник русского посланника, отправленного в 1675 г. по повелению царя Алексея Михайловича в Китай, для урегулирования споров по поводу границ двух империй.
СПб.: Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1881. — 298, II с. Павел Яковлевич Пясецкий (1843–1919) – талантливый русский врач, путешественник и художник, был доктором медицинских наук, действительным членом Императорского Русского Географического общества, почетным членом Императорской Академии художеств. Первая русская научно-торговая экспедиция в Центральный Китай прошла в 1874–1875 гг. под...
СПб.: Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1881. — 298, II с. Павел Яковлевич Пясецкий (1843–1919) – талантливый русский врач, путешественник и художник, был доктором медицинских наук, действительным членом Императорского Русского Географического общества, почетным членом Императорской Академии художеств. Первая русская научно-торговая экспедиция в Центральный Китай прошла в 1874–1875 гг. под...
Воин Андреевич Римский-Корсаков (1822—1871), старший брат великого композитора, крупный деятель русского флота, контр-адмирал, исследователь Татарского пролива и низовьев Амура, соратник Г. И. Невельского, был талантливым писателем. В 1852 году В. А. Римский-Корсаков принял командование над шхуной «Восток», сопровождавшей фрегат «Паллада», где находился И. А. Гончаров. Письма...
Порт-Артур: Новый край, 1901. — 168 с. Россов Петр Алексеевич в 1896 г. был командирован в Китай для изучения разговорного и письменного китайского языка; до 1900 г. находился в Квантуне; в 1899 г. руководил сбором податей на северном участке Квантуна, затем был командирован для содействия администрации железной дороги и порта Дальнего. В основу книги положены написанные...
Владивосток, 1903. — 530 с. Перевод с китайского документов официальной отчетности маньчжурских чиновников по Гиринскому уезду 1644—1902. Расположение и состав армейских частей. Торговля, транспорт, земледелие, горное дело, почта.
М.: ИВ РАН, 2004. — 162 с. — ISBN: 5-89282-195-1. В книге впервые в нашей историографии представлен ранний период жизни и деятельности Чэнь Дусю, одной из ключевых фигур в истории революционного движения Китая первой половины XX века. Привлекая новые китайские источники и литературу, автор прослеживает эволюцию идейно-политических взглядов Чэня от сторонника реформаторских идей...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 384 с. с ил. В книге рассказывается о различных сторонах жизни китайского народа в XVII — начале XX в. Автор дает представление о традиционных верованиях и -обрядах, бытовых условиях, семейном укладе китайских трудящихся. Важное место уделено разоблачению эксплуататорской сущности императорской власти и произвола чиновников в стране. От автора. Представления...
М.: Миринда, 2004. — 448 с. Издание рассказывает о политической, общественной и культурной жизни Китая в период господства маньчжурской династии, пришедшей к власти в 1644 г. и свергнутой в 1911 г. От автора Последние дни китайской династии Мин О культе императорской власти Императорские дворцы Наследник трона Тунчжи Молодые годы Гуансюя Сорегентши и великий князь Гун Гуансюй и...
М.: Миринда, 2004. — 448 с. Книга рассказывает о политической, общественной и культурной жизни Китая в период господства маньчжурской династии, пришедшей к власти в 1644 г. и свергнутой в 1911 г. Даются не только характеристики маньчжурских правителей, но и описывается их личная жизнь, интересы и увлечения. Написанное ярким живым языком, произведение рассчитано на широкий круг...
М. : Наука, 1985. — 299, [2] с. Книга посвящена периоду господства маньчжурской династии в Китае, свергнутой в 1911 г. В ней показана не только общественная, но и личная жизнь маньчжурских правителей, их интересы и склонности, методы утверждения своей власти. Книга снабжена портретами исторических лиц. О книге От автора Последние дни китайской династии Мин О культе императорской...
М. : Наука, 1985. — 299, [2] с. Книга посвящена периоду господства маньчжурской династии в Китае, свергнутой в 1911 г. В ней показана не только общественная, но и личная жизнь маньчжурских правителей, их интересы и склонности, методы утверждения своей власти. Книга снабжена портретами исторических лиц. О книге От автора Последние дни китайской династии Мин О культе императорской...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 299, [2] с. Книга посвящена периоду господства маньчжурской династии в Китае, свергнутой в 1911 г. В ней показана не только общественная, но и личная жизнь маньчжурских правителей, их интересы и склонности, методы утверждения своей власти. Книга снабжена портретами исторических лиц. О книге От автора Последние дни китайской династии Мин О культе императорской...
СПб.: Издание Л.Ф. Пантелеева, 1886. — [4], 382 с. Габриэль Эжен Симон (1829—1896) – дипломат, бывший французский консул в Китае. В своей книге Симон подробно рассказывает о традициях, государственном устройстве, культуре и образовании, быте современного ему Китая (второй половины XIX века). Семья Труд Государство Правительство Семья Уанг-Минц-Це Приложение
М.: Учпедгиз, 1958. — 111 с. Очерк истории крестьянской войны XVII в. в Китае. В книге рассказывается о Китае в конце правления династии Мин, причинах развития повстанческих движений, ходе и итогах восстания.
М.: Учпедгиз, 1958. - 111 с.
Очерк истории крестьянской войны XVII в. в Китае. В книге рассказывается о Китае в конце правления династии Мин, причинах развития повстанческих движений, ходе и итогах восстания.
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1970. - 264 с.
Книга содержит исследование китайского ремесленного производства (текстильного, железоделательного, керамического, бумажного, художественных промыслов), славившегося высоким мастерством ручного труда; рассматриваются технические и организационные особенности ремесла, его развитие. Автор затрагивает...
Сообщ. В.Н. Баснин. — Москва: Общество истории и древностей российских при Московском университете, 1875. — [2], 292, III с. "Историческая записка..." была составлена Сычевским Епифаном Ивановичем в 1846 году. Автор рассматривает историю русско-китайской границы с середины XVII века до второй половины XVIII века. Он анализирует различные договоры, трактаты, законы, правовые акты,...
Пер. с манчжурского Алексея Леонтиева. — СПб: Императорская Академия Наук, 1781. — 398 с. Алексей Леонтьевич (Леонтиев) (1716, Москва, - 12.5.1786, Петербург), один из первых русских китаеведов. Родился в семье церковного служителя. Окончил Славяно-греко-латинскую академию в Москве. В 1743-55 ученик-практикант Российской духовной миссии в Пекине. По возвращении служил...
Автор данного сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790-1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в Пекин. Во второй части сочинения автор рассказывает о своем пребывании в столице империи Цин. Кроме того, приводятся подробные сведения о географии, обществе и культуре Китая, а также Восточного Туркестана.
Автор данного сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790-1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в Пекин. Во второй части сочинения автор рассказывает о своем пребывании в столице империи Цин. Кроме того, приводятся подробные сведения о географии, обществе и культуре Китая, а также Восточного Туркестана.
СПб.: Типография Медицинского департамента Министерства внутренних дел, 1824. — 388 с. Автор этого сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790—1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в столицу Китая. Одним из последствий путешествия Е.Ф.Тимковского в Китай был приезд в Россию Иакинфа Бичурина. В книге рассказывается о...
СПб.: Типография Медицинского департамента Министерства внутренних дел, 1824. — 388 с. Автор этого сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790—1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в столицу Китая. Одним из последствий путешествия Е.Ф.Тимковского в Китай был приезд в Россию Иакинфа Бичурина. В книге рассказывается о...
СПб., Типография Медицинского департамента Министерства внутренних дел, 1824 – 471 с.
Автор этого сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790—1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в столицу Китая. В третьей части своего произведения автор рассказывает о возвращении в Россию, а также дает географическое, этнографическое и...
СПб., Типография Медицинского департамента Министерства внутренних дел, 1824 – 471 с.
Автор этого сочинения – русский дипломат Егор Федорович Тимковский (1790—1875). Он сопровождал новый состав Пекинской духовной миссии России в поездке в столицу Китая. В третьей части своего произведения автор рассказывает о возвращении в Россию, а также дает географическое, этнографическое и...
Москва: Наука; Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1972. — 670 с. Настоящая книга дает всестороннее представление о политической, экономической и культурной жизни Китая с 1644 по 1919 г. На основе огромного фактического материала авторы рисуют картину жизни феодальной Цинской империи. В книге показаны смена старых средневековых форм классовой борьбы буржуазно-революционным...
М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1959. — 421 с. Введение. Цинская империя накануне японо-китайской войны 1894-1895 гг. Начало реформаторской деятельности китайской буржуазии и либеральных помещиков. Теоретическое обоснование Кан Ю-вэем необходимости реформ. Возникновение организованного движения за реформы. Экспансия иностранного капитала в Китае в 1895-1898 гг. Движение...
Иркутск: Типография К.И. Витковской, 1890. — 282 с. В сборник вошли путевые заметки, написанные русскими купцами, побывавшими в Монголии и Китае. Книга содержит ценные сведения по этнографии народов тех областей Китая и Монголии, через которые проезжали авторы дневников.
Иркутск: Типография К.И. Витковской, 1890. — 282 с. В сборник вошли путевые заметки, написанные русскими купцами, побывавшими в Монголии и Китае. Книга содержит ценные сведения по этнографии народов тех областей Китая и Монголии, через которые проезжали авторы дневников.
СПб.: Паровая скоропечатня "ВОСТОК", 1901. - 31 с. В книге автор, посетивший Китай в 1900 году, рассказывает о своих впечатлениях о поездке и излагает свои взгляды на политику России на Дальнем Востоке, выступая за союз между Россией и Китаем.
СПб.: Паровая скоропечатня "ВОСТОК", 1900. - 87 с. Свою работу "К событиям в Китае: об отношении Запада и России к Востоку" Э. Э. Ухтомский целиком посвятил обоснованию мысли, что Россия не должна входить в антикитайский блок. Критикуя действия европейских колонизаторов в Китае, князь включал в понятие Востока и Россию, которая, по его словам, уже начинает догадываться, что она...
Пер. с кит. Р. В. Вятлина, В. Я. Сидихменова и др. / Ред. и пред. В. Н. Никифорова
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. - 630 с.
В "Новой истории Китая" мы получаем чрезвычайно полное, богатое фактами и научными обобщениями пособие - целую энциклопедию политической жизни Китая того периода, когда китайский народ начал свою великую борьбу против иностранных...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. - 630 с.
В "Новой истории Китая" мы получаем чрезвычайно полное, богатое фактами и научными обобщениями пособие - целую энциклопедию политической жизни Китая того периода, когда китайский народ начал свою великую борьбу против иностранных капиталистических агрессоров и маньчжуро-китайских феодалов. Китайские историки считают, что...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1904. — 270 с. Книга представляет собой скрупулезное описание географического положения, инфраструктуры, состава населения, хозяйственных занятий жителей, территориально-административного устройства Мукденской провинции Маньчжурии в начале XX века. Эта область в то время имела важнейшее значение для интересов Российской империи.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1904. — 270 с. Книга представляет собой скрупулезное описание географического положения, инфраструктуры, состава населения, хозяйственных занятий жителей, территориально-административного устройства Мукденской провинции Маньчжурии в начале XX века. Эта область в то время имела важнейшее значение для интересов Российской империи.
М.: Наука, 1979. — 130 с. Монография посвящена малоизученным в советской и зарубежной историографии проблемам подавления цинским правительством народного восстания в Джунгарии и Восточном Туркестане в 1864—1877 гг. Автор подробно освещает ход военных действий, рассматривает организацию армии маньчжуро-китайских карателей, практиковавшиеся ими методы борьбы с повстанцами....
М.: Наука, 1979. — 130 с. Монография посвящена малоизученным в советской и зарубежной историографии проблемам подавления цинским правительством народного восстания в Джунгарии и Восточном Туркестане в 1864—1877 гг. Автор подробно освещает ход военных действий, рассматривает организацию армии маньчжуро-китайских карателей, практиковавшиеся ими методы борьбы с повстанцами. Большое...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. — 304 с. Тайпинская революция, начавшаяся восстанием в Цзиньтяне в 1851 г. и завершившаяся гибелью Тайлинского государства в Нанкине в 1864 г., продолжалась четырнадцать лет. Исполняющемуся в 1951 г. столетию Цзиньтяньского восстания автор и посвящает эту работу.
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. — 304 с. Тайпинская революция, начавшаяся восстанием в Цзиньтяне в 1851 г. и завершившаяся гибелью Тайлинского государства в Нанкине в 1864 г., продолжалась четырнадцать лет. Исполняющемуся в 1951 г. столетию Цзиньтяньского восстания автор и посвящает эту работу.
СПб: Типография Товарищества Художественной Печати, 1903. — 682 с. 100 портретов, 250 рисунков и фотографий, 8 фототипий, 2 хромолитографии, 2 плана и 1 указатель, 7 рисунков художника И. Смурковича. Записки русского корреспондента – очевидца событий восстания ихэтуаней (боксерского восстания) в Китае в 1900 г. Автор в яркой эмоциональной манере дает описание военных действий...
СПб. - Порт-Артур: Тип. Товарищества Художественной Печати, 1903.— 682 с. Записки русского корреспондента – очевидца событий восстания ихэтуаней (боксерского восстания) в Китае в 1900 г. Автор в яркой эмоциональной манере дает описание военных действий русских и союзных войск, спасавших европейцев из очага восстания боксеров. Перед читателем встают «живые картины штурма фортов...
Спб: Типография Товарищества Художественной Печати, 1903. — 682 с.
Записки русского корреспондента – очевидца событий восстания ихэтуаней (боксерского восстания) в Китае в 1900 г. Автор в яркой эмоциональной манере дает описание военных действий русских и союзных войск, спасавших европейцев из очага восстания боксеров.
Перед читателем встают «живые картины штурма фортов Таку,...
北京：中央民族学院图书馆，1982年. —78 页 Два исторических документа, отображающих сношения маньчжурской администрации с казахами. Для историков, переводчиков и всех интересующихся казахской историей.
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