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Book SynopsisIn The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.
Trade Review“I continue to be particularly impressed by the way that the questions force readers to analyze the documents. This reader is really set up to create a dialogue between teachers and students as they work through the documents. I am also even more aware after this reading about how this reader may serve a launch pad for research projects by students. This provides a real possibility that students can develop a real primary based investigation. Crucial to this is how the editor also made great efforts to include list of other contemporaneous publications in the readings sections. Having additional documents for the reader available digitally is a great feature. This will extend the advantage of the reader as a whole.” Edward McCord, George Washington University
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Qing Reign Periods Terms of Measurement, Units of Currency, and Bureaucratic Titles Introduction 1 The Macartney Audience, 1793 2 The Last Will and Testament of the Qianlong Emperor, 1799 3 The Case against Heshen, 1799 4 The Downfall of a Governor-General in the White Lotus Rebellion, 1800 5 The Eight Trigrams Rebellion, 1813 6 An English Barbarian Ship, 1832 7 The Opium Debate, 1836 8 The Opium War, 1839–1842 9 Surviving the Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864 10 The Coup d’état of 1861 11 End of the Miao Rebellions, 1872 12 The Incredible Famine, 1876–1879 13 Imperial Rainmaking Practices, 1875–1879 14 The Dalai Lama and the Qing Empire, 1879–1910 15 Crime and Punishment 16 Honoring Old Age 17 Honoring the Gods 18 The Cult of Female Chastity 19 “True Stories” of Filial Piety 20 “Tribute” Missions to the Qing Empire 21 The Making of Taiwan Province, 1872–1887 22 The Sino-French War, 1884–1885 23 Anti-Missionary Violence, 1891–1899 24 The Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 25 The Hundred Days’ Reforms, 1898 26 The Return of the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1898 27 The Boxer Uprising, 1899–1900 28 New Policies Reforms, 1901–1911 29 The 1911 Revolution 30 The Abdication, 1912 Chinese Name List
