The present confrontation of Communist China and the United States,
on which the future of peace in Asia hinges, is merely the latest
phase in a continuing historical process--the remaking of China's
ancient society under the stimulus of Western contact. How does it
happen that a century of foreign trade and missionary evangelism,
of modern education and the training of Chinese students in Western
ways, has now resulted in a seeming rejection of the West? What has
been the real nature of "China's response to the West" during the
past century of our contact?
This volume gives the first inside account, on so broad a scale,
of how China's leaders reacted to the invasion of Western arms and
goods, persons and ideas, during the three generations from the
Opium War to the rise of the Kuomintang. In 28 chapters, with
translations of 65 key documents, the authors trace the stages by
which the scholar-officials of the Middle Kingdom were brought to
recognize successively the need for Western arms to defend their
country, Western technology for making arms, modern science to
support technology, its application in modern industry to
strengthen the nation, and all the attendant new ideas which led
them eventually into great movements for institutional reform,
political revolution, and ideological reconstruction.
From the famous Commissioner un's first study of Western
geography during his anti-opium crusade, through the efforts of Li
Hungchang and others at "self-strengthening" by industrialization,
down to the critical thought of Dr. Hu Shih and the eclecticism of
Sun Yat-sen in the early 20th century, the writings of China's
leaders ring the changes on a central theme how to remaketheir
heritage and create a modern nation capable of meeting the West on
equal terms. The provincial viceroys, the Reformers of 1898, the
Boxers in 1900, the old Empress Dowager, and the eager students
studying abroad, each in their own way, all grapple with this
absorbing problem. The varied Chinese responses to the West in the
formative century here analyzed give us a new insight into the
springs of social action among one-fifth of mankind.
The companion volume, for the research specialist, provides
Notes and Sources, Bibliography, and a Glossary of Chinese names
and terms, essential bases for further exploration of this new
field.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 2006 |
| First published: |
November 1979 |
| Authors: |
Ssu-yu Teng
• John King. Fairbank
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
308 |
| Edition: |
2nd edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-12025-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-12025-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780674120259 |
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