Qing History

52 books

The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong cover
Rating 3.4
The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong Gao Wangling SinoMaps Press (China Cartographic Publishing House) · 2019 The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong is the first volume of historian Gao Wangling's "Qianlong Trilogy," focusing on the first thirteen years of the Qianlo…
The Hungry Prosperous Age: The Gains and Losses of the Qianlong Era cover
Rating 4.2
The Hungry Prosperous Age: The Gains and Losses of the Qianlong Era Zhang Hongjie Chongqing Publishing House · 2022 This book takes the Qianlong reign as its entry point to ask a seemingly contradictory question: why did a dynasty with the largest population, the wi…
Reborn in the Last Years of Kangxi, Part One: The Turning Years cover
Reborn in the Last Years of Kangxi, Part One: The Turning Years Yan Jiu Huangshan Publishing House · 2009 This is the first part of Reborn in the Last Years of Kangxi, a time-travel novel set in the Qing dynasty by web author Yan Jiu (four parts in all: Th…
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The Princess Der Ling Collection Princess Der Ling (Yu Der Ling) China Renmin University Press · 2012 The Princess Der Ling Collection is a simplified Chinese edition of the Qing court writings that Der Ling (1886–1944), a Chinese American woman author…
Where Is "Jiangnan"? The Establishment of Qing Orthodoxy and the Transformation of the Literati's Spiritual World (Expanded Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
Where Is "Jiangnan"? The Establishment of Qing Orthodoxy and the Transformation of the Literati's Spiritual World (Expanded Edition) Yang Nianqun SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2017 In this book, "Jiangnan" is both a geographical concept and, more importantly, a cultural metaphor: it refers to the prosperous region of Suzhou, Song…
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Rating 4.7
Biography of Yongzheng Feng Erkang Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 This is a systematic family education book written for parents. The author, Yu Yingzheng (Lao Yu), is the mind behind the public account "Lonely Brain…
Burying the Great Qing Alive cover
Rating 4.0
Burying the Great Qing Alive Daluoluo Buried Alive: The Great Qing is a historical time-travel web novel by Da Luoluo, serialized on Qidian from 2021 and now complete at roughly 2.68 milli…
The Grand Forbidden City 3 cover
Rating 4.0
The Grand Forbidden City 3 Yan Chongnian Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013 The Grand Forbidden City 3 is the concluding volume of Yan Chongnian's Grand Forbidden City trilogy, released alongside the CCTV Lecture Room series o…
The Setting Sun of an Empire: The Curve of the Qing Dynasty's Decline cover
Rating 4.0
The Setting Sun of an Empire: The Curve of the Qing Dynasty's Decline 郭立场 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2020 The Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong golden age was the peak of Qing rule and the last flourishing age of China's ancient feudal dynasties. Qianlong occupies…
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 11 cover
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 11 Zeng Guofan Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2012 This is Volume 11 of the revised edition of The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan from Yuelu Press, namely "Memorials XI," collecting Zeng Guofan's memori…
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…
The Macartney Embassy to China in 1793 cover
Rating 4.2
The Macartney Embassy to China in 1793 George Macartney Chongqing Publishing House · 2008 In the autumn of 1792, Britain sent a large mission led by Lord Macartney, ostensibly to congratulate the Qianlong Emperor on his eightieth birthday, …
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Poisoning the Qing Meiluo Huangchao Du Qing (The Poison That Cleanses) is an alternate-history novel by the web author Fallen Dynasty, serialized on Qidian and running to roughly three m…
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Rating 4.3
Biography of Zeng Guofan Zhang Hongjie 民主与建设出版社 · 2019 Biography of Zeng Guofan is a life of Zeng Guofan by the historian Zhang Hongjie. Taking the course of Zeng's life as its main thread, the book tells …
The Fall of an Empire: Thirty Years of Financial War in the Late Qing cover
The Fall of an Empire: Thirty Years of Financial War in the Late Qing 李德林 Lujiang Publishing House · 2013 This book is a financial-historical novel by the financial writer Li Delin, set against the last thirty years of the late Qing dynasty. It was planned…
A New Study of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cover
Rating 4.2
A New Study of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Liu Chen Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 Taiping history was once a "prominent field" of modern Chinese history but has gradually become a "rare field" with few scholars; those who devote the…
The Rise of the Middleman cover
The Rise of the Middleman Mu Yunfeng Qidian · 2013 The Rise of the Middleman is a long historical time-travel web novel by the online author Mu Yunfeng, serialized on Qidian and categorized under Qing …
I Know: Yongzheng, the Misunderstood Emperor and the Underrated Dynasty cover
Rating 3.5
I Know: Yongzheng, the Misunderstood Emperor and the Underrated Dynasty 傅淞岩 Sino-Culture Press · 2014 "I Know: Yongzheng, the Misunderstood Emperor and the Underrated Dynasty" is a biography of Yongzheng by journalist and writer Fu Songyan. The book ne…
A Century of Qing History Studies: Overseas Research Volume cover
Rating 4.0
A Century of Qing History Studies: Overseas Research Volume 胡祥雨 / Huang Xingtao / 夏明方 / Yang Nianqun China Renmin University Press · 2021 This book is the "Overseas Research" volume of the ten-volume "A Century of Qing History Studies" series from the Institute of Qing History at Renmin …
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Rating 4.4
The Great Enterprise: The History of the Qing Dynasty's Founding 魏斐德 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2010 The Great Enterprise: The History of the Qing Dynasty's Founding is the magnum opus of the American historian Frederic Wakeman. The English original i…