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The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800
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Artikel-Nr:
9781405160803
Seiten:
326
Autor:
Pamela Kyle Crossley
Gewicht:
568 g
Format:
247x182x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Pamela Kyle Crossley is Professor of Inner Asian, East Asian Intellectual and Chinese History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Her publications include The Manchus (Blackwell, 1997); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Ideology (1999); and What is Global History? (2008). She is a past Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2001.
This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities.
* Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability - the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound's translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong
* Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China's surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism
* Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues
* Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading
* Places China's history within the context of global change
* Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability - the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound's translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong
* Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China's surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism
* Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues
* Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading
* Places China's history within the context of global change
This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities.
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Forward
Prelude
Timeline
Chapter 1: The Wobbling Pivot
Chapter 2: Sources of Order under the Qing Empire
Chapter 3: Sources of Disorder under the Qing Empire
Feature: Strategic Borders
Chapter 4: Qing and the World
Feature: Taiping Heroine
Chapter 5: Visionaries
Feature: Hunan Takes the Lead
Feature: Water
Chapter 6: Beiyang Ascendency
Chapter 7: Cultural Revolution
Feature: Minerals
Chapter 8: War
Feature: Manchus as Minorities
Chapter 9: The Transcendent Center
Feature: Health Risks
Chapter 10: Gravity
Bibliography
List of Maps
Forward
Prelude
Timeline
Chapter 1: The Wobbling Pivot
Chapter 2: Sources of Order under the Qing Empire
Chapter 3: Sources of Disorder under the Qing Empire
Feature: Strategic Borders
Chapter 4: Qing and the World
Feature: Taiping Heroine
Chapter 5: Visionaries
Feature: Hunan Takes the Lead
Feature: Water
Chapter 6: Beiyang Ascendency
Chapter 7: Cultural Revolution
Feature: Minerals
Chapter 8: War
Feature: Manchus as Minorities
Chapter 9: The Transcendent Center
Feature: Health Risks
Chapter 10: Gravity
Bibliography
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