Author : Linda Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108420680
A highly readable and engaging survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries.
Author : Willard J. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1316445046
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.
Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521846080
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Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108169295
In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world's largest modern urban society. Throughout their long history, Chinese cities have been shaped by interactions with those around the world, and the story of urban China is a crucial part of the history of how the world has become an urban society. Exploring the global connections of Chinese cities, the urban system, urban governance, and daily life alongside introductions to major historical debates and extracts from primary sources, this is essential reading for all those interested in China and in urban history.
Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139461885
Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004349375
Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made their works, the ways both popular literature and market forces could shape ways of looking, and how practices and imagery spread across regions. The authors connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade, showing ways visual images and practices reflected, adapted to, and reproduced the culture and society around them. Readers will gain a stronger appreciation of the richness of the visual and material cultures of Middle Period China.
Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804708760
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others.
Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107123704
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Author : Charles Hartman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108834833
A revisionist analysis of the major sources for Song history, explaining their master narrative as the product of political tension.
Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107054672
A new social history of China's Civil War, 1945-9, which brought dramatic political and social revolution to China.
