The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Part 2 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521243351 ISBN 13: 9780521243353

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.

About this title

Book Description:

A comprehensive account of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination reached its peak and then began to unravel.

About the Author:

Willard J. Peterson is the Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is the editor of Volume 9 of The Cambridge History of China series, and is also author of two chapters in Volume 8 of the series. His main field is Ming-Ch'ing intellectual history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0521243351
• ISBN 13: 9780521243353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 837
• Editor: Peterson Willard J.