Ya Pian Zhan Zheng
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Ya Pian Zhan Zheng
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Author : Julia Lovell
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Hardback Omes
Release Date : 2011
Ya Pian Zhan Zheng written by Julia Lovell and has been published by MacMillan Hardback Omes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with China categories.
"'On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly... Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.' In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a Cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism: the start of China's heroic struggle against a Western conspiracy to destroy the country with opium and gunboat diplomacy. Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its background, causes and consequences... The Opium War is both the story of modern China--starting from this first conflict with the West--and an analysis of the country's contemporary self-image. It explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice on both sides have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West."--book jacket.
Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Ren Wu
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Author : Guojun Zhang
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Ren Wu written by Guojun Zhang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with China categories.
Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Yu Tai Ping Tian Guo
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Author : Qiu Fang
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Yu Tai Ping Tian Guo written by Qiu Fang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with China categories.
Cong Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Dao Wu Si Yun Dong
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Author : Sheng Hu
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Cong Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Dao Wu Si Yun Dong written by Sheng Hu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
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Author : 陳舜臣
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
written by 陳舜臣 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with China categories.
New Directions In The Social Sciences And Humanities In China
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Author : Michael B. Yahuda
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1987-06-18
New Directions In The Social Sciences And Humanities In China written by Michael B. Yahuda and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-06-18 with Social Science categories.
Cong Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Dao Wu Si Yun Dong
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Author : Sheng Hu
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Cong Ya Pian Zhan Zheng Dao Wu Si Yun Dong written by Sheng Hu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with China categories.
The Gunpowder Age
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Author : Tonio Andrade
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-29
The Gunpowder Age written by Tonio Andrade and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with History categories.
A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.
Orphan Warriors
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Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1990
Orphan Warriors written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the descendants of these conquering people were coming to terms with a loss of legal definition, an ever-steeper decline in living standards, and a sense of abandonment by the Qing court. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), Orphan Warriors is the first attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. The book reveals that the Manchus were not "sinicized," but that they were growing in consciousness of their separate ethnicity in response to changes in their own position and in Chinese attitudes toward them. Pamela Kyle Crossley's treatment of the Suwan Guwalgiya family of Hangzhou is hinged upon Jinliang (1878-1962), who was viewed at various times as a progressive reformer, a promising scholar, a bureaucratic hack, a traitor, and a relic. The author sees reflected in the ambiguities of his persona much of the plight of other Manchus as they were transformed from a conquering caste to an ethnic minority. Throughout Crossley explores the relationships between cultural decline and cultural survival, polity and identity, ethnicity and the disintegration of empires, all of which frame much of our understanding of the origins of the modern world.
The Global In The Local
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Author : Xin Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-04
The Global In The Local written by Xin Zhang and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with History categories.
The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an “Asian culture” of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China. Xin Zhang’s groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China’s prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city. We see civilians coping with the traumatic international encounters of the Opium War; Zhenjiang brokers bankrolling Shanghai’s ascendance as a cosmopolitan commercial hub; and merchants shipping goods to market, for the first time, on steamships. Far from passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. Indeed, The Global in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities.