Imperial China, 1350-1900 /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The classical legacy, 1000-1350
- Song: the great divide
- The barbarian ascendancy
- The imperial myth: the mandate of heaven
- Part II. The imperial way, 1350-1650
- The rise of the Ming
- Autocrat, bureaucrat, empress, eunuch
- The Ming and the world
- Luan: disintegration of order
- Part III. The high qing, 1650-1800
- The Manchu Revolution
- Style and substance: imperial culture
- Imperial absolutism: the monarch and the minister
- Part IV. Ming and Qing: social, economic, cultural, and intellectual foundations, 1350-1900
- The good earth
- Merchants and markets
- Official life and literati culture
- Images in the heavens, patterns on the earth
- The spiritual world
- The relevance of Confucius
- Part V. When worlds collide, 1500-1870
- The empire and the garden
- Opium
- The heavenly kingdom
- Part VI. Continuity in change: on the threshold of revolution, 1870-1890
- Self-strengthening and its fate
- Epilogue: the twilight of imperial China.