Rethinking the decline of China's Qing dynasty : imperial activism and borderland management at the turn of the nineteenth century
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Rethinking the decline of China's Qing dynasty : imperial activism and borderland management at the turn of the nineteenth century
(Asian states and empires, 6)
Routledge, 2015
- : hbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China's borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and the incipient decline of the imperial Qing dynasty. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that, on the contrary, the response of the imperial government went well beyond pacification and reconstruction, and demonstrates that the imperial political culture was dynamic, innovative and capable of confronting contemporary challenges. The author highlights in particular the Jiaqing Reforms of 1799, which enabled national reformist ideology, activist-oriented administrative education, the development of specialised frontier officials, comprehensive borderland rehabilitation, and the sharing of borderland administration best practice between different regions. Overall, the book shows that the Qing regime had sustained vigour, albeit in difficult and changing circumstances.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Transitions in Education and Ideology 1. The Yuelu Academy and Hunan's Nineteenth Century Turn Statecraft Toward Statecraft 2. Dynastic Decline, Heshen, and the Ideology of the Jiaqing Reforms Part 2: Management of the Hunan Miao Frontier 3. Identity and Conflict on a Chinese Borderland: Yan Ruyi and the Recruitment of the Gelao During the 1795-7 Miao Revolt 4. New Order on China's Hunan Miao Frontier, 1796-1812 Part 3: Management of the Southern Shaanxi Highlands 5. Qing Reconstruction in the Southern Shaanxi Highlands: State Perceptions and Plans, 1799-1820 6. Southern Shaanxi Border Officials in Early Nineteenth Century China Part 4: Management of the Guangdong Coast 7. Qing Highland Precedent, Yan Ruyi, and the Defense of the Guangdong Coast, 1804-5
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