The Cambridge History of China: Volume 10, Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part 1

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 10, Late Ch'ing 1800–1911, Part 1 by Fairbank, John K.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780521214476.

This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ching empire. It opens with a survey of the Ching empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ching decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynastys survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each authors account is based.