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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

By: Zheng Yangwen

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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

By: Zheng Yangwen

This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only provide narratives, this textbook fashions a new and practical way to study modern China. Written exclusively for university students, A-level or high school teachers and students, it uses primary sources to tell the story of China and introduces them to existing scholarship and academic debate so they can conduct independent research for their essays and dissertations. This book will be required reading for students who embark on the study of Chinese history, politics, economics, diaspora, sociology, literature, cultural, urban and women’s studies. It would be essential reading to journalists, NGO workers, diplomats, government officials, businessmen and travellers.

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Manchester University Press

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1526126974

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The Social Life of Opium in China

By: Zheng Yangwen

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The Social Life of Opium in China

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In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139446177

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9781139446174

China on the Sea

How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

By: Zheng Yangwen

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China on the Sea

How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

By: Zheng Yangwen

Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, while the seas and what came from the seas—from Islam, fragrances and Jesuits to maize, opium and clocks—significantly changed the course of history, and have been of inestimable importance to China since the Ming. This book integrates the maritime history of China, especially the Qing period, a subject which has hitherto languished on the periphery of scholarly analysis, into the mainstream of current historical narrative. It was the seas that made Tang China a “Cosmopolitan Empire” (Mark Lewis), the Song dynasty China’s “Greatest Age” (John Fairbank), China at 1600 “the largest and most sophisticated of all unified realms on earth” (Jonathan Spence), and the reign of the three Qing emperors (Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong) China’s “last golden age” (Charles Hucker).

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BRILL

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9004194789

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9789004194786

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

By: Zheng Yangwen

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China on the Sea

How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

By: Zheng Yangwen

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How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

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This volume challenges the “Walled Kingdom” perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.

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9004194770

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9789004194779

The Social Life of Opium in China

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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

The Social Life of Opium in China

The Social Life of Opium in China

China on the Sea

China on the Sea

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History

China on the Sea

China on the Sea

The Social Life of Opium in China

The Social Life of Opium in China

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