TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halsey,Stephen R.
TI  - Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft 
SN  - 9780674425651
U1  - 951/.03 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Great powers
KW  - History
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - China
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: State-Making and Empire in a World-Historical Context --; 1. Europe's Global Conquest --; 2. Foreign Trade --; 3. Money --; 4. Bureaucracy --; 5. Guns --; 6. Transportation --; 7. Communication --; Epilogue: State- Making in China, 1850-1949 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - China's late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this narrative, Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China's current great-power status to this so-called decadent era, when threats of war with European and Japanese empirestriggered innovative state-building and statecraft
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674089129
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674089129
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