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Author : Pin-chia Kuo
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Critical Study of the First Anglo-Chinese War written by Pin-chia Kuo and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. C. Kuo
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Download or read book A critical study of the first Anglo-Chinese war with documents written by P. C. Kuo and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lin Kuo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Critical Study of the First Anglo-Chinese War, with Documents written by Lin Kuo and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pin-chia KUO
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Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book A Critical Study of the First Anglo-Chinese War, with Documents ... Reprinted written by Pin-chia KUO and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Francis Dann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Public Opinion on the First Anglo-Chinese War as Expressed in Some British Journals written by Christopher Francis Dann and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961745
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468313231
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Opium War written by Julia Lovell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.
Author : Bruce A. Elleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000393240
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840–2020 written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-19th century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a navy which was sunk or captured by the Japanese in the war of 1894–1895; during the 1920s and 1930s, a navy again sunk or lost to Japan, in the war of 1937–1945; in the 1950s, a navy built with Soviet help, which stagnated following the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s; and finally the present navy which absorbed its predecessor, but with the most modern sections dating from the 1990s—a navy which continues to grow and prosper. The book also shows how the underlying strategic imperative for the Chinese navy has been the defense of China’s coasts and major rivers; how naval mutiny was a key factor in the overthrow of the Qing and the Nationalist regimes; and how successive Chinese governments, aware of the potent threat of naval mutiny, have restricted the growth, independence, and capabilities of the navy. Overall, the book provides—at a time when many people in the West view China and its navy as a threat—a rich, detailed, and realistic assessment of the true nature of the Chinese navy and the contemporary factors that affect its development.
Author : Chung Tan
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book China and the Brave New World written by Chung Tan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew B. Liu
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252331
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Tea War written by Andrew B. Liu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814740480
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book World History in Documents written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotes the ability to study history with primary sources and the ability to compare aspects of major societies.
Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861367
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Opium War, 1840-1842 written by Peter Ward Fay and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India to the point of consumption in China and the first to give both Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes. In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.
Author : Anna Marie Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520030350
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Pacific Historical Review written by Anna Marie Hager and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betty Peh-T'I Wei
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622097858
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 written by Betty Peh-T'I Wei and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou.
Author : Richard J. Grace
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077359681X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Opium and Empire written by Richard J. Grace and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close look at two controversial Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.
Author : Arthur W. Hummel
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004218017
Total Pages : 1125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, 1644-1912 (2 vols) written by Arthur W. Hummel and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250118301
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Fallen Glory written by James Crawford and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die. In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen. The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.
