John King Fairbank
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 713 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 1002 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. These years from 1912 to 1949 were marked by civil war, revolution and invasion; but also by change and growth in the economic, social, intellectual and cultural spheres. The chapters examine economic trends in the period and the rise of the new middle class....
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 1092 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers. After a preliminary overview stressing economic and social history, the History presents a narrative of...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 1108 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 722 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of the two final volumes of The Cambridge History of China, which describe the efforts of the People's Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regime's first sixteen years (1949-65). Part I chronicles the attempt to adapt the Soviet model of development to China, and Part II covers the subsequent efforts of China's...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 754 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. The contributors focus on commercial and technological growth, foreign relations,...