Fall of Imperial China
From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline.
From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire." |
Contents
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Peasants
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Gentry
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Merchants
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The Dynastic Cycle
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The Rise of the Manchus
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Early and High Ching
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The Western Intrusion
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Abahai Aisin Gioro Alliance armies banners barbarian Boxers bureaucratic Canton capital central government century Ch'ien-lung Ch'ing Dynasty Chang Chang Chih-tung Chinese civil clan command commercial Confucian cultural defeat degree-holders Dorgon dynastic cycle dynasty's economic elite emperor empire empress dowager English Feng forces foreign gentry's Hakka Hunan Hung Hsiu-ch'üan Hung-chang Japanese K'ang Yu-wei K'ang-hsi Kwangsi land landlords late imperial leaders Li Hung-chang Liang likin lineages lower gentry Macao magistrate major Manchu ment merchants military militia Ming Ming Dynasty Mongol monopoly movement Nanking north China Nurhaci officials opium Opium War peasants Peking period political Portuguese Prince provincial railway rank rebellion rebels reform regime reign revenue revolution revolutionary River rural salt secret societies self-strengthening Shanghai sheng-yuan social soldiers Sun Yat-sen taels Taiping Taiping Rebellion throne Tientsin tion trade treaty troops Tseng Kuo-fan Tz'u-hsi University Press upper gentry uprising Western White Lotus Yangtze Yuan Shih-k'ai Yung-cheng