Rethinking the Decline of China's Qing Dynasty: Imperial Activism and Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781138791046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str.

Daniel McMahon

Opis

First published 2015 by Routledge ... Abingdon, Oxon ... and by Routledge ... New York ...

Recenzje

"This book brings a new and significant perspective to the study of China's Qing dynasty, and such a thought-provoking volume will be invaluable to both scholars and students of Chinese borderlands and Qing political history."

Hang Lin, Asian Affairs  

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Transitions in Education and Ideology  1. The Yuelu Academy and Hunan’s Nineteenth Century Turn Statecraft Toward Statecraft  2. Dynastic Decline, Heshen, and the Ideology of the Jiaqing Reforms  Part 2: Management of the Hunan Miao Frontier  3. Identity and Conflict on a Chinese Borderland: Yan Ruyi and the Recruitment of the Gelao During the 1795-7 Miao Revolt  4. New Order on China’s Hunan Miao Frontier, 1796-1812  Part 3: Management of the Southern Shaanxi Highlands  5. Qing Reconstruction in the Southern Shaanxi Highlands: State Perceptions and Plans, 1799-1820  6. Southern Shaanxi Border Officials in Early Nineteenth Century China  Part 4: Management of the Guangdong Coast  7. Qing Highland Precedent, Yan Ruyi, and the Defense of the Guangdong Coast, 1804-5

O autorze

Daniel McMahon is a Professor in the Department of History, at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan