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Carregando... The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9: The Ch'ing Dynasty, Part 2: To 1800de Willard J. Peterson
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Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)951.03History and Geography Asia China and region History 1644-1912 (Qing)Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: Sem avaliação.É você?Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing. |
On the whole, this felt like it was aimed at a more scholarly readership than Part 1. Not only is the subjects dealt with probably of narrower interest than the general political history making up the bulk of Part 1, but greater familiarity with the subjects is expected of the reader; a greater number of terms and concepts were thrown around that I had to look up.
Something that seemed missing was a chapter on Buddhism. Taoism and Christianity rate one each, and Confucian scholars feature prominently in many, but Buddhists show up only as objects of dislike by Taoists and Confucians.