Strangers At the Gate - Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

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About the author

Frederic Wakeman Jr. is Haas Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on China including The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (California, 1985), and Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (California, 1994, also available in paperback).

Summary

Examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history.

Product details

• Authors: Frederic Wakeman, Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr Wakeman, Wakeman Frederic
• Assisted by: Frederic Wakeman Jr. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.1997
• EAN: 9780520212398
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21239-8
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions