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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note
1 Peasants
Peasant Stereotypes
Agriculture and Land Tenure
The Human Geography of South China
Notes
2 Gentry
The Dual Nature of the Gentry
Bureaucratic Rank: The Gentry as a Status Group
Local Prestige: The Gentry as a Class
Gentry Fees and Corruption
The Changing Balance between the Central Government and the Local Gentry
Notes
3 Merchants
The Development of Commerce and the “Sprouts of Capitalism”
Mercantile Insecurity
Private Monopolies
The Salt Industry
The Bourgeois Adoption of Gentry Culture
Notes
4 The Dynastic Cycle
Dynastic and Secular Change
The Moral Factor
The Ritual Factor
The Voluntary Factor
Individual Emperors and die Dynastic Cycle
The Gentry and Dynastic Change
Increased Imperial Despotism
Notes
5 The Rise of the Manchus
The Frontier Zone
The Manchus
Tribal Organization
The Rise of Nurhad
The Reign of Abahai
Dorgon and the Occupation of Peking
Notes
6 Early and High Ch’ing
The Manchu-Chinese Balance
The Shun-chih Reign
The Oboi Regency
The K’ang-hsi Emperor
The Yung-cheng Reign
High Ch’ing: The Ch’ien-lung Period
The White Lotus Rebellion
Population Pressure and the Gentry\'s Role in Local Defense
Notes
7 The Western Intrusion
The Chinese World Order
Portuguese Maritime Power
The Acquisition of Macao
The Japanese Carrying Trade
Macao’s Economic Decline
The Dutch Challenge
The English East India Company
Multiport Trading
The Flint Episode
Restriction to Canton
Tea
Opium
Legalization versus Enforcement
Notes
8 Invasion and Rebellion
Lin Tse-hsu s Efforts to Halt the Opium Traffic
The Opium War
The Unequal Treaties
Ch’ing Foreign Policy
Hung Hsiu-ch’üan and the Ideological Origins of the Taiping Rebellion
Growth of die Society of God Worshippers
The Occupation of Nanking
The Beleaguered Ch’ing Dynasty
The Anglo-Chinese War of 1856-1860
9 The Illusion of Restoration and Self-Strengthening
The Militia Movement
Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army
Shanghai and die Customs Tariffs
Self-Strengthening
Foreign Relations
The Tientsin Massacre and Li Hung-chang’s Indispensability
The Empress Dowager’s Politics of Compromise
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895
The Failure of Self-Strengthening
Notes
10 Dynastic Reform and Reaction
Formation of Study Societies
K’ang Yu-wei’s Philosophy
The Scramble for Concessions
Internal Demands for Reform
The Political Struggle Between Emperor Kuang-hsu and Tz’u-hsi
The Hundred Days of Reform
Conservative Reaction
Kuang-hsu’s Attack on the Bureaucracy
Tz’u-hsi’s Coup
The Boxer Movement
Notes
11 The End of the Mandate
Nationalist Version of the 1911 Revolution
Contradictions of Nationalist Historiography
Military Modernization and Its Consequences
Financial Difficulties
Alliance of Gentry and Merchants
The Constitutionalist Movement
Railroad Construction
Revolutionary Propaganda and Activities
SunYat-sen
Secret Societies
Frustration of the Constitutional Movement
The “Second Revolution**
The Search for a New Mandate
Notes
Readings in Late Imperial Chinese History
introduction
Chapter I: Peasants
Chapter II: Gentry
Chapter III: Merchants
Chapter IV : The Dynastic Cycle
Chapter V : The Rise of the Manchus
Chapter VI: Early and High Ch’ing
Chapter VH: The Western Intrusion
Chapter VIII: Invasion and Rebellion
Chapter X: The Illusion of Restoration and Self-Strengthening
Chapter IX: Dynastic Reform and Reaction
Chapter XI: The End of the Mandate
Index