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Quest for Power : European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft / Stephen R. Halsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 1 map, 6 graphs, 10 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674425651
  • 9780674089129
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951/.03 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)