The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, Part 1, The Ch'ing Empire to 1800

This volume provides detailed narrative accounts of the reigns of the first five Manchu emperors.

Willard J. Peterson (Edited by)

9780521243346, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 December 2002

780 pages, 3 b/w illus. 12 maps 12 tables
23.6 x 16.3 x 5 cm, 1.223 kg

' … The Ch'ing dynasty to 1800 has all it takes to become a standard reference work on early and mid-Qing history.' School of Oriental & African Studies

This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between emperors and their servitors, between Manchus and non-Manchu populations, between various elite groups, between competing regional interests, between merchant networks and agricultural producers, between rural and urban interests, and, at work among all these tensions, between the old and new. This volume presents the changes underway in this period prior to the advent of Western imperialist military power.

1. State building before 1644 Gertraude Roth Li
2. The Ch'ing conquest under the Shun-chih reign Jerry Dennerline
3. The K'ang-hsi reign Jonathan Spence
4. The Yung-cheng reign Madeleine Zelin
5. The Ch'ien-lung reign Alexander Woodside
6. The conquest elites of the Ch'ing empire Pamela Crossley
7. The social roles of literati Benjamin Elman
8. Women, families, and gender relations Susan Mann
9. Social stability and social change William Rowe
10. Economic developments Ramon Myers and Yeh-chien Wang.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], Asian history [HBJF]