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Sun Yat-sen and the Hongmen Zhigongtang
· 2026
This book traces the development of the Tiandihui into the Hongmen, recreates the harsh conditions overseas Chinese faced in the late Qing, and recoun…
Occasional Talks from the Guest Seat
北京汇聚文源文化发展有限公司 · 2024
The official system changed with the times. In the early Qing no chancellor was appointed; later the Grand Councilors were established to perform the …
A Late Qing Diplomat's Journey Through Chinese and Western Culture
Peking University Press · 2025
Chen Jitong (1852/1907) was a figure of considerable achievement in the cultural history, diplomatic history, and history of Chinese-Western cultural …
Changes in Reading and the Transformation of Knowledge
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
Taking examination preparation books of the late Qing dynasty as its object of study, this book seeks to reveal how the imperial examination system in…
Academic Translation Series on the French Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan: France in Guangzhouwan—Selected Comprehensive Documents on Guangzhouwan (Volume One)
Jinan University Press · 2019
This volume mainly collects authoritative historical documents dating from 1897 onward, especially from the early period of the French occupation and …
A Genealogy of Modern Chinese Thought and Scholarship (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2021
Why do the great ritual scholars of reality show an extremely rebellious face in their diaries and unpublished writings? Since the late Qing, how has …
The Xiang Army in Troubled Times
People's Literature Publishing House · 2026
"No Xiang, no army": unlocking the rise of the founding father of modern warlords from the grassroots. Revealing how Zeng Guofan, with the strength of…
The Court Gazette: Government Information Disclosure and Security in the Qing Dynasty
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026
This book takes the Qing-dynasty Dibao (Peking Gazette) as its core material, systematically tracing its institutional structure, dissemination mechan…
Transformation and Myth: Xinhai 1911
Xinhua Publishing House · 2026
Was Empress Dowager Cixi a hero or a villain of the late Qing? Yuan Weishi vs. Zhou Youguang Was the Imperial Constitution Outline merely a dead lette…
A Quick Guide to Li Hongzhang
· 2025
This book seeks to bring readers closer to the deeply contested life of Li Hongzhang, the powerful late-Qing official. Written in an accessible and fl…
A Quick Guide to Hu Linyi
· 2025
This book aims to give readers a rapid understanding of the extraordinary life of Hu Linyi, one of the "restoration worthies" of the late Qing. In sev…
A Quick Guide to Zuo Zongtang
· 2025
This book aims to guide readers easily into the sweeping life of this late Qing worthy and to a deep understanding of his historical standing. In seve…
A Quick Guide to Zhang Zhidong
· 2025
This book guides readers into the practical and intellectual world of Zhang Zhidong (Xiangtao), a renowned late Qing official. In clear, accessible pr…
Casting Classics and Proclaiming Civilization: "Renewing an Old Nation" under the "Theory of Civilizational Hierarchy"
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
This is Zhang Yongle's fifth monograph, following Rebuilding an Old Polity: 1911–1917; Competition among Nations: Kang Youwei and the Decline of the V…
Yang Du (Complete 3 Volumes)
Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House · 2025
The second volume of Tang Haoming's monumental historical novel trilogy "Late Qing," this exquisitely crafted work chronicles the legendary life of th…
China and the Great Transformation of the Modern World
· 2025
This book presents the most compelling sections of Jiang Tingfu's The Modern History of China. Taking "China's modernization" as its sole thread, it o…
Qishan and the Opium War
· 2025
Qi Shan and the Opium War reconstructs the image of the historically controversial figure Qi Shan from a fresh perspective. Through meticulous analysi…
Partition by the Great Powers and the Revival of the Nation
· 2025
This book explores in depth a period of modern Chinese history from the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War to the eve of the 1911 Revolution. Af…
Hong Xiuquan and Zeng Guofan
· 2025
The first part of this book contrasts Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army. Hong had revolutionary ideas but failed t…
The Great Businessman 5: Breakout
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
Business is business—that has always been the merchant's creed. Yet in thousands of years, who has truly lived by it? The bigger the business, the mor…