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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. 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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ISBN-13:	9780674054554
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2010
Series:	History of Imperial China , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	632,474
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Timothy Brook is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.

Introduction

Conquest
Governance
High Qing
Society
Commerce
Crises
Rebellion
Restoration
Imperialism
Revolution

Conclusion

Emperors and Dynasties
Pronunciation Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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In a fine, well-written study, Rowe brings the latest scholarship in Qing history to a wide audience. This book reflects a lifetime of reading in the field, and is written in the fluent manner of an accomplished and very successful author. Responsible and judicious, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese history.

R. Kent Guy

— R. Kent Guy, University of Washington

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A very fine book, drawing on the best new scholarship on this pivotal period in Chinese history.

Choice - K. E. Stapleton

Here is a new narrative for Chinese history. It is based on the path-breaking scholarship of a small body of principally American scholars who have shown that after the non-Han Manchus conquered the Ming in 1644, traditional China was gradually replaced by something very different. This meant that the previous explanations, emanating from the Harvard school, led by the persuasive John King Fairbank, which emphasized a succession of essentially unchanging dynasties, must be abandoned...In short, as Professor Rowe sets out in this important book, "the inward-looking and hermetic Celestial Empire" has vanished and something far more interesting has come convincingly before us.

Times Literary Supplement - Jonathan Mirsky

In a fine, well-written study, Rowe brings the latest scholarship in Qing history to a wide audience. This book reflects a lifetime of reading in the field, and is written in the fluent manner of an accomplished and very successful author. Responsible and judicious, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese history.

R. Kent Guy

This series on China, brilliantly overseen by Timothy Brook, is a credit to Harvard University Press. Above all, it encourages us to think of China in different ways.
— Jonathan Mirsky

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A very fine book, drawing on the best new scholarship on this pivotal period in Chinese history.
— K. E. Stapleton

Choice

Here is a new narrative for Chinese history. It is based on the path-breaking scholarship of a small body of principally American scholars who have shown that after the non-Han Manchus conquered the Ming in 1644, traditional China was gradually replaced by something very different. This meant that the previous explanations, emanating from the Harvard school, led by the persuasive John King Fairbank, which emphasized a succession of essentially unchanging dynasties, must be abandoned...In short, as Professor Rowe sets out in this important book, "the inward-looking and hermetic Celestial Empire" has vanished and something far more interesting has come convincingly before us.
— Jonathan Mirsky

Times Literary Supplement

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