The Qing Empire and the Opium War
The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
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- Author: Haijian Mao, East China Normal University
- Translators:
- Joseph Lawson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Craig Smith
- Peter Lavelle, Temple University, Philadelphia
- Introduction by: Julia Lovell, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Date Published: October 2016
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107069879
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The Opium War of 1839–42, 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.
Read more- Focuses on the Opium War, a key moment in world history, and illustrates its long-term implications and influence
- Explores both Chinese and English archival sources for a detailed reconsideration of the facts of the Opium War
- Offers new explanations of many historical actors' thinking and behaviour in the context of the values of their own age
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- Date Published: October 2016
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107069879
- length: 568 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.92kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 14 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
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
Bibliography
Index.
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