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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Qing Empire and the Opium War
    sub title: the collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
  title info:
    title: Tian chao di beng kui. English
  name:
    name part: Mao, Haijian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 549 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Opium War of 1839-1842, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing participants in terms of the moral standards and intellectual norms of their own time, demonstrating that actions which have struck later observers as ridiculous can be understood as reasonable within these individuals' own context. This English-language translation of Mao's work offers a comprehensive response to the question of why the Qing Empire was so badly defeated by the British in the first Opium War, an answer that is distinctive and original within both Chinese and Western historiography, and supported by a wealth of hitherto unknown detail.
  table of contents: 1. Qing military power -- 2. The unexpected war -- 3. From "suppression" to "conciliation," and back -- 4. The "battle" of Guangzhou -- 5. The collapse of the southeastern ramparts -- 6. The resurgence of the idea of "conciliation" -- 7. "Equal" and "unequal" -- 8. The testimony of history -- Character list.
  note: Mao Haijian, East China Normal University and Macao University ; with an introduction by Julia Lovell ; English text edited by Joseph Lawson ; translated by Joseph Lawson, Craig Smith and Peter Lavelle.
  note: "Originally published by SDX Joint Publishing as The Collapse of the Celestial Empire in 2005 [with title Tianchao de bengkui]"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: Opium War, 1840-1842
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Military policy
  subject:
    topic: Strategy
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DS757.5 .M2813 2016
  classification: 951/.033
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge China library
  identifier: 9781107069879
  identifier: 1107069874
  identifier: 2016026391
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160705
    record change date: 20161215163404.0
    record identifier: in00003720461