Bruce A. Elleman

Modern China

Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China's culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9781538103869
• ISBN-10: 1538103869
• Artikelnr.: 53691506

Autorenporträt

By Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps List of Features List of Tables List of Figures List of
Photographs Preface Acknowledgments Technical Note Introduction: A Cultural
Framework for Understanding China Top-Down Characteristics: Confucianism,
Militarism, Legalism, and Sinification Radial Characteristics:
Sinocentrism, Barbarian Management, and the Provincial System Bottom-Up
Characteristics: Daoism, Buddhism, and Poetry Cyclical Elements: Yin and
Yang, the Dynastic Cycle, and Historical Continuity Retrospective Elements:
Fate and the Sources of Knowledge Conclusions Notes Bibliography PART I:
THE CREATION AND MATURATION OF AN EMPIRE, 1644-1842 1 The Creation of the
Qing Dynasty The Ming Dynasty The Qing Conquest of Ming China: Nurgaci and
His Successors Grafting the Manchus onto Han China under the Shunzhi
Emperor Territorial Consolidation under the Kangxi Emperor Institutional
Consolidation under the Yongzheng Emperor Conclusions Notes Bibliography 2
The Maximization of Empire under the Qianlong Emperor The Conquest of the
Zunghar Mongols The Conquest of the Tarim Basin and Tibet Qing Imperial
Administration: The Tributary System Domestic Administration: Central and
Local Government The Economy of an Empire: Agriculture, Commerce, and
Taxation Conclusions Notes Bibliography 3 Chinese Society at the Zenith of
the Qing Dynasty Manchu and Han Society The Four Social Groups: Scholars,
Peasants, Artisans, and Merchants The Legal System Confucianism as an
Ideology Shamanism, Confucianism, and Buddhism as Instruments of Manchu
Rule Conclusions Notes Bibliography 4 The Foundations of Knowledge Fidelity
to the Past The Confucian Classics Thinking by Historical Analogy
Understanding the Natural World The Examination System Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 5 The Arrival of the West Early Explorers The Maritime
Advance: Portugal, Spain, Holland, and England The Continental Advance:
Russia The Legal and Religious Sources of Cultural Conflict The
Technological Revolution Conclusions Notes Bibliography 6 Systemic Crisis
and Dynastic Decline Government Corruption and Manchu Decadence Population
Growth, Ethnic Tensions, and the Miao Revolt The White Lotus Rebellion and
the Eight Trigrams Revolt Imperial Overextension Qing Attempts to Restore
Governmental Efficacy Conclusions Notes Bibliography 7 Expanding Commercial
Relations with the West The Tea Trade and the Silver Inflow The Opium Trade
and the Silver Outflow The British Rejection of Sinification Chinese
Strategy and the First Opium War The Treaty of Nanjing: Treaty Ports,
Tariffs, and North-South Tensions Conclusions Notes Bibliography PART II:
DYNASTIC DECLINE AND COLLAPSE, 1842-1911 8 Civil War and Foreign
Intervention North-South Tensions and the Origins of the Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Movement The Taiping Capital in Nanjing The Arrow War
Manchu-Western Cooperation to Destroy the Taipings Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 9 Quelling Domestic Rebellions The Rise of the Empress Dowager
Cixi The Nian Rebellion (1851-68) The Panthay Rebellion (1855-73) The
Donggan Rebellion (1862-73) The Muslim Rebellion in Xinjiang (1862-78)
Conclusions Notes Bibliography 10 The Self-Strengthening Movement and
Central Government Reforms Military Reform: Xiang and Huai Armies, Beiyang
and Nanyang Navies Financial Reform: The Imperial Maritime Customs Service
Foreign Policy Reform: The Zongli Yamen Educational Reform: China's First
Embassy and Western Learning Governmental Restoration: Confucian
Rectification Conclusions Notes Bibliography 11 Attacks on Chinese
Sovereignty The Burlingame Mission and the Alcock Convention The Tianjin
Massacre (1870) and the Margary Affair (1875) Japan and Taiwan (1871-74)
Russia and Xinjiang (1871-81) France and Vietnam (1883-85) Conclusions
Notes Bibliography 12 The First Sino-Japanese War The Korean Crisis The
Hostilities The Settlement The Triple Intervention The Scramble for
Concessions Conclusions Notes Bibliography 13 The Attempt to Expel the
Foreigners: The Boxer Uprising The Hundred Days' Reform The Origins of the
Boxer Movement The Boxer Uprising The Boxer Protocol and the Economic
Impact of the Indemnities The Aftermath: The Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
Conclusions Notes Bibliography 14 The 1911 Revolution The Reform Program of
the Empress Dowager Cixi Han Revolutionaries: Sun Yat-sen's Anti-Manchu
Movement The Rights Recovery Movement The New Army and the Wuchang
Rebellion The Collapse of the Qing Dynasty Conclusions Notes Bibliography
PART III: THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD, 1912-49 15 The Founding of the Republic of
China The Republic under Yuan Shikai Relations with Russia, Japan, and
Britain The Founding of the Nationalist Party North China Warlord Intrigues
The Republic of China Enters the First World War Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 16 Versailles and Its Aftermath Political Ferment and New
Ideas The Paris Peace Conference Examines the Shandong Question The
Shandong Controversy The Beijing Government's Reaction to the Compromise
The Long-Term Impact of the Treaty of Versailles Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 17 New Intellectual Currents The New Culture Movement The May
Fourth Movement The Karakhan Manifesto and the Comintern The Founding of
the Chinese Communist Party The Civil Wars in North China Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 18 The Nationalist-Communist United Front South China
Diplomacy: The Origins of the First United Front The Reorganization of the
Nationalist Party North China Diplomacy: Beijing and Manchurian Warlords
The Rise of Chiang Kai-shek and the Northern Expedition The Beginning of
the Nationalist-Communist Civil War Conclusions Notes Bibliography 19 The
Nanjing Decade Elimination of the Unequal Treaties with the Western Powers
The Russo-Japanese Rivalry over Manchuria The Military Side of Nation
Building: Uprisings and Encirclement Campaigns The Civil Side of Nation
Building: Nationalist and Communist Ideology The Xi'an Incident and the
Second United Front Conclusions Notes Bibliography 20 The Second
Sino-Japanese War Great Power Rivalries over China The Regional War and the
Civil War The Global War Soviet Efforts to Expand Their Sphere of Influence
Impact on the Chinese Population Conclusions Notes Bibliography 21 The
Civil War: Nationalists versus Communists Renewal of the Civil War U.S.
Diplomatic Intervention Soviet Intervention The Nationalist Economic
Implosion The Communist Victory Conclusions Notes Bibliography PART IV:
CHINA AND TAIWAN IN THE POSTWAR ERA 22 The Communist Victory The Formation
of the People's Republic of China Land Reform and Agrarian Policies The
Nationalization of Industry and Commerce Diplomatic Isolation and the
Sino-Soviet Alliance Land Reform on Taiwan Conclusions Note Bibliography 23
The Korean War The Outbreak of the Korean War The Chinese Decision to
Intervene The Soviet War Protraction Strategy War Termination The Domestic
Consequences of the War Conclusions Notes Bibliography 24 Mao's Quest for
World Leadership The Hundred Flowers Campaign The Great Leap Forward The
Great Famine (1958-62) The Sino-Soviet Split The Sino-Indian War of 1962
Conclusions Notes Bibliography 25 The Cultural Revolution Mao's Weakened
Position The Phases of the Cultural Revolution The PLA and the Restoration
of Order The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict Sino-American Rapprochement
Conclusions Notes Bibliography 26 The Deng Xiaoping Restoration The
Impending Succession, the Fall of Lin Biao, and the Death of Mao The Rise
to Power of Deng Xiaoping The Taiwanese Economic Miracle Deng Xiaoping's
Agricultural Reforms Deng Xiaoping's Industrial Reforms Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 27 From Tiananmen to Xi Jinping The Dissolution of the Soviet
Union Tiananmen Demonstrations and Massacre Governance without a Preeminent
Leader Rising Nationalism Xi Jinping Leader for Life Conclusions Notes
Bibliography 28 The Mandate of Heaven Population and Prosperity
Environmental Challenges Energy and Industrial Growth Democracy in Taiwan
The Two-China Problem Conclusions Notes Bibliography Conclusion: China in
Transition Top-Down Characteristics: Civil-Military-Ideological
Underpinnings of Power Radial Characteristics: Relations with the Outside
Bottom-Up Characteristics: Education, Globalization, and Han Nationalism
Cyclical Elements: The End of the Dynastic Cycle? Retrospective Elements:
Fatalism or Choice? Final Words Notes Bibliography Appendix A: Geographical
Names by Transliteration System Appendix B: Pinyin-Wade-Giles Conversion
Table Teaching References General Historical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Biographical Information Supplemental Readings Movies Websites Photo
Credits Name Index Subject Index About the Authors