Late Qing History

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The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan (12 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan (12 Volumes) Zeng Guofan Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan (12 Volumes), published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2018, takes as its base text the Complete Works of Zeng Wenzheng…
1856: A Tangled Qing, Taiping, and the Powers cover
Rating 3.8
1856: A Tangled Qing, Taiping, and the Powers 陶短房 Chemical Industry Press · 2015 1856 was a pivotal year in modern Chinese history and a highly significant one in the history of China's foreign relations. That year the civil war be…
Friends, Guests, and Colleagues: The Mu-Fu System of the Late Qing cover
Friends, Guests, and Colleagues: The Mu-Fu System of the Late Qing K. E. Folsom China Social Sciences Press · 2002 The Book
After All, Who Ranks First in Battle Merit? cover
Rating 3.1
After All, Who Ranks First in Battle Merit? 谭伯牛 Jiangxi Education Publishing House · 2019 After All, Who Ranks First in Battle Merit? is a collection of essays on late Qing history by the modern historian Tan Boniu. The author has long devo…
Biography of Zuo Zongtang cover
Rating 4.0
Biography of Zuo Zongtang Bales Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2011 Biography of Zuo Zongtang is a life of Zuo Zongtang written by the American military officer and scholar W. L. Bales (William Leslie Bales). The origi…
Interrupted Modernization: Uncovering the Late Qing cover
Rating 4.0
Interrupted Modernization: Uncovering the Late Qing 黄波 Oriental Press · 2017 Interrupted Modernization: Uncovering the Late Qing is a collection of essays on Late Qing history written from a social-history perspective by media …
The Fall of the Qing: A Revelation (1894–1911) cover
Rating 4.1
The Fall of the Qing: A Revelation (1894–1911) 黄治军 Flower City Publishing House · 2013 The Fall of the Qing: A Revelation (1894–1911) is a popular history of the late Qing by Huang Zhijun, published in Duku's "This History Book Is Really…
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 1 cover
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 1 Zeng Guofan Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2011 The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan is a large-scale documentary collection published by Yuelu Press, based on the complete works issued in the 1980s an…
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan cover
Rating 3.9
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D. Spence Guangxi Normal University Press · 2011 Originally published in English as God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, this is sinologist Jonathan D. Spence's representa…
A Grand Biography of Zeng Guofan cover
Rating 4.3
A Grand Biography of Zeng Guofan Lin Gan / 迟云飞 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 A Grand Biography of Zeng Guofan is co-authored by Qing history specialists Lin Qian and Chi Yunfei. In two volumes, it retells Zeng Guofan's sixty-on…
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 3 (Memorials, Part III) cover
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 3 (Memorials, Part III) Zeng Guofan Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2011 This is Volume 3 of the 31-volume revised edition of The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan published by Yuelu Press. It belongs to the "Memorials" section…
Zuo Zongtang in Gansu cover
Zuo Zongtang in Gansu 马啸 Gansu People's Publishing House · 2005 This book traces the political, military, and economic activities of Zuo Zongtang, a leading official of the late Qing, during his more than a decade …
At the Turning Point of History: A Memoir of the Late Qing Empire cover
Rating 3.5
At the Turning Point of History: A Memoir of the Late Qing Empire Ximen Songke Guangxi Normal University Press · 2007 This book starts from the Opium War of 1840 and runs through to the Gengzi Incident of 1900 and the Boxer Protocol, tracing across roughly sixty years…
From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy cover
Rating 4.0
From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy 关晓红 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 This book is a monograph by Guan Xiaohong, professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, on the reform of the local bureaucracy in the late Qing. Th…
From the Jiawu War to the Wuxu Reforms: A Critical Annotated Edition of Kang Youwei's Wo Shi cover
Rating 4.6
From the Jiawu War to the Wuxu Reforms: A Critical Annotated Edition of Kang Youwei's Wo Shi Mao Haijian SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2009 Kang Youwei's autobiography Wo Shi (later also known as Kang Nanhai's Self-Compiled Chronicle) is one of the three core historical sources for studyin…
The Governor in the Crevice: Zeng Guofan's Five Life-and-Death Trials cover
Rating 4.2
The Governor in the Crevice: Zeng Guofan's Five Life-and-Death Trials 鞠海 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 This book focuses on the roughly two decades of Zeng Guofan's life in the crevice, before and after he took up the post of governor. In just twenty ye…
Seeing History Through Another Eye: Foreigners on Li Hongzhang cover
Seeing History Through Another Eye: Foreigners on Li Hongzhang Zhang Minglin Jilin Photography Publishing House · 2003 In the collective memory of the Chinese people, Li Hongzhang is often associated with the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Boxer Protocol, and branded a …
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The Age of Li Hongzhang (1870–1895) 王鼎杰 Contemporary China Publishing House · 2013 Taking the twenty-six years from 1870 to 1895 as its window, this book places Li Hongzhang's career at the head of the Beiyang administration back int…
The Reform Scene: The Course of Late Qing Economic Reform cover
Rating 3.3
The Reform Scene: The Course of Late Qing Economic Reform 李德林 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2014 In 1862, the economic reform of the late Qing dynasty began. As the ruling group and the Han Chinese armed groups vied for power, two major military-i…
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 8 (Letters I) cover
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 8 (Letters I) Zeng Guofan Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 The 2018 Zhonghua Book Company edition of The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan is a 12-volume hardcover set in simplified Chinese horizontal typesetting …