Author: Henry KnollysPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385226252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Incidents in the China War of 1860
Author: Henry KnollysPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385226252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Incidents in the China War of 1860, Compiled from the Private Journals of General Sir Hope Grant
Author: James Hope GrantPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338539306X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Imperial Twilight
Author: Stephen R. PlattPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307961745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Deadly Dreams
Author: J. Y. WongPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
Japan and China
Author: Matsuda WataruPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136821090
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.
East Asia in the World
Author: Stephan HaggardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
China and the International System, 1840-1949
Author: David ScottPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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