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China's Last Empire - The Great Qing (Paperback)
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China's Last Empire - The Great Qing (Paperback)
Series: History of Imperial China
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Loot Price R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the
standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking
state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing
was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three
strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with
the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social
edicts-especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear
queues-were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a "universal"
empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the
Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the
conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the
west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of
Taiwan. Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social
and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of "small government"
worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the
nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a
predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the
devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled
an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated
changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold
back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new
foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would
follow. This original, thought-provoking history of China's last
empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China
today.
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