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Organized thematically, the volume examines China's complex history from the rise of the Qing dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century through the formation of the People's Republic of China up to the present. Each chapter begins with an annotated visual source followed by a chapter introduction and analysis of textual sources, allowing students to explore different types of sources and topics. Sources in Chinese History contextualizes the issues, trends, and challenges of each particular period. Special attention has been made to incorporate a variety of viewpoints which challenge standard accounts. Non-traditional documents, such as movie dialogues, are also included which aim to encourage students to reconsider historical events and trends in Chinese history.
This volume includes a variety of sources, such as maps, posters, film scripts, memorials, and political cartoons and advertisements, that make this book the perfect introductory aid for students of Chinese history, politics, and culture, as well as Chinese studies after 1600.
Organized thematically, the volume examines China's complex history from the rise of the Qing dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century through the formation of the People's Republic of China up to the present. Each chapter begins with an annotated visual source followed by a chapter introduction and analysis of textual sources, allowing students to explore different types of sources and topics. Sources in Chinese History contextualizes the issues, trends, and challenges of each particular period. Special attention has been made to incorporate a variety of viewpoints which challenge standard accounts. Non-traditional documents, such as movie dialogues, are also included which aim to encourage students to reconsider historical events and trends in Chinese history.
This volume includes a variety of sources, such as maps, posters, film scripts, memorials, and political cartoons and advertisements, that make this book the perfect introductory aid for students of Chinese history, politics, and culture, as well as Chinese studies after 1600.
David G. Atwill teaches Asian History at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two monographs, The Chinese Sultanate (2005) and Islamic Shangri-la (2018), and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including two Fulbright fellowships and an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship.
Yurong Y. Atwill is the Asian Studies Librarian at Pennsylvania State University and received her PhD from Yunnan University. She is the author of Yunnan Knowledge and Outsiders' Impressions: Culture, Transportation and Botantical Resources (in Chinese) and has published numerous articles on Chinese librarianship.
Preface
A Note on Romanization, Names, and Dates
Acknowledgments
PART 1 : LATE IMPERIAL CHINA (1644-1911)
CHAPTER 1 - Early to Mid-Qing
VISUAL SOURCE: Imperial Examination Halls
Rise of Qing: Conquest, Consolidation, and Preservation
- Shunzhi's Head-Shaving Decree (1645)
- Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor (1670)
- Kangxi's Edict Regarding Wu Sangui (1674)
- Qing Rulers Promoting and Preserving Manchu Identity (1635-1850)
- Qing's 29 Regulations for Reorganizing Tibet (1792)
- Kangxi's Edict of Toleration (March 20, 1692)
- Open Letter From Kangxi to Pope Clement XI (October 31, 1716)
- Letter From King George III to the Emperor of China (1792)
- Journal Entries of Lord Macartney During his Journey to China (1793-1794)
- Qianlong's Edict to King George III of England (September 23, 1793)
- Pu Songling's "Three Genii" (c.1679)
- Eight-Legged Essay Civil Service Examination (1818)
- Description of Provincial Examination (c. 1845)
- Lan Dingyuan on Female Education (1712)
- Description of European Factories in Guangzhou (1825-1844)
- Deqing's Memorial on the Responsibilities of the Gonghang (March 23, 1813)
- Rules Regulating Foreign Trading in Guangzhou (1832-1835)
- Opium and Tea Trade with China
- Huang Juezi on the Evil of Opium (june 2, 1838)
- The Opium Question Among Westerners in China (1836-1837)
- Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu's Pronouncement to the Foreigners(March 18, 1839)
- Charles Elliot's Public Notice to British Subjects (March 27, 1839)
- Letter From Lin Zexu to his Wife (1839)
- Letter From Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria (July 19, 1839)
- Guangdong Residents' Denunciation of the British (1841)
- British Parliamentary Discussion of the Resolution on the "Suppression of the Opium Trade" (April 4, 1843)
- Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
- Taiping Anti-Manchu Proclamation (1852)
- Brief Record of the Taiping's Arrival in Nanjing (March 1853)
- Taiping Ten Commandments (1852)
- Taiping Plan for Reorganizing Chinese Society (1853)
- Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty (1853)
- Panthay Rebellion Summons to Arms (1868)
- Rumors of a Tungan Massacre (1864)
- Robert Shaw's Visit to Yarkand and Kashgar (March 3, 1870)
- Feng Guifen on the Adoption of Western Learning (1860)
- Zeng Guofan on Founding the Shanghai Arsenal (1868)
- Li Hongzhang's Memorial Advocating Foreign Language Training (March 11, 1863)
- Woren's Memorial Objecting to Western Learning (1867)
- Harry Parkes' Letter to Commissioner Ye Mingchen (October 8, 1856)
- Reflections of Lord Elgin on the Treaty of Tianjin (June 29, 1858)
- Treaty of Tianjin (June 26, 1858)
- A Narrative on the Looting and Prize Money at the Yuanming Yuan (October 7, 1860)
- China's Declaration of War (1894)
- Japan's Declaration of War (1894)
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895)
- Li Hongzhang, "Afterthoughts of the Japanese War" (June 30, 1895)
- John Hay's Open Door Note (September 6, 1899)
- Description of Chinese Family Life (1883)
- Legal Case Study: Fraudulent Sale of Land (1889)
- Legal Case Study: Marriage (1882)
- Kang Youwei's Memorial on Institutional Reform (January 29, 1898)
- China Mail Interview with Kang Youwei (October 7, 1898)
- Guangxu's Three Secret Decrees (1898)
- Cixi and the Trial of the Reformers (1898)
- Malan Boxer Proclamations (1900)
- Spirit Boxer Possession (1900)
- Imperial Edict to "Declare War" (June 21, 1900)
- Boxer Protocol (September 7, 1901)
- Qing Officials' Joint Proposals for Post-Boxer Reform (1901)
- Qiu Jin's Address to 200 Million Fellow Countrywomen (1904)
- Abolition of the Competitive Examinations in China (1905)
- Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People (1906)
- Demands of the National Assembly, Submitted in a Memorial to the Throne (November 3, 1911)
- First Provisional President's Inaugural Address (January 2, 1912)
- Last Emperor's Abdication Edict (February 12, 1912)
- Sun Yat-sen's Reply to Yuan Shikai and Resignation (February 12, 1912)
- Japan's 21 Demands (January 18, 1915)
- May Fourth Manifesto (May 4, 1919)
- Chen Duxiu's "New Youth" Manifesto (December 1, 1919)
- Hu Shi's Literary Revolution and Renaissance in China (1926)
- Zhang Xun's Reasons for Restoring the Monarchy (1917)
- Warlord Politics: The Game of Playing One Against the Other (1925)
- Remembering the Brutal and Corrupt Warlord Zhang Zongchang (1936)
- The Three Principles of the People (March 6, 1921)
- Manifesto on the Northern Expedition (September 18, 1924)
- Sun Yat-sen's Last Wills and Testament (March 11, 1925)
- "Qingdang": Purging the Party of all Undesirable Elements (April 1927)
- KMT's Purge the Party Slogans (May 1927)
- Proclamation From the Headquarters of the 26th Army (April 22, 1927)
- Chiang Kai-shek's Marriage Proposal to Song Meiling (1927)
- First Manifesto of the CCP on the Current Situation (June 15, 1922)
- Mao Zedong's Reports on an Investigation of Peasant Movement in Hunan (March 1927)
- Land Law of the Jiangxi Soviet (1932)
- Three Main Rules of Discipline and Six Points for Attention (1928)
- Yang Zhihua's "Love and Socializing Between Men and Women" (July 1922)
- Ding Ling's "Miss Sophie's Diary" (1928)
- Ba Jin's "Family" (1931)
- British Consulate Report on the Death of Zhang Zuolin (June 15, 1928)
- Principles for the Organization of the "Manchukuo" Government (1932)
- Lytton Commission Report (October 2, 1932)
- Japanese Declaration and Withdrawal from the League (March 27, 1933)
- Emergency Law for the Suppression of Crimes Against the Safety of the Republic (1931)
- Song Meiling on the New Life Movement (1934)
- FILM: Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934)
- The Long March and Ethnic Borderlands: Two Perspectives (1935)
- Zhang Xueliang's Xi'an Incident Speech (December 13, 1936)
- Mao Zedong's Statement on Chiang Kai-shek's Statement (December 28, 1936)
- Communist Co-operation by the Central Committee of the CCP (July 15, 1937)
- Letter to the Japanese Embassy From Nanjing Safety Zone (December 18, 1937)
- Song Meiling's "Only the Sword is Left" (July 17, 1938)
- FILM: Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
- Wang Jingwei's Telegraph to Chiang Kai-shek Indicating His Collaboration With the Japanese (1938)
- [Occupied] China-Japan: Treaty Concerning Basic Relations-Annexed Protocol (November 30, 1940)
- Chiang Kai-shek, "China's War, a World War" (July 7, 1942)
- Ding Ling' s "Thoughts on March 8, Women's Day" (1942)
- Wang Shiwei's "Wild Lilies" (1942)
- Mao "Talk at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942)
- Wen Yiduo's "Last Speech" (July 15, 1946)
- Republic of China's...
Qing China and Relations With Europe
Education, Examinations, and Literature
CHAPTER 2 - The Opium War
VISUAL SOURCE: Guangzhou, the Pearl River Delta and the World
Trade in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
Opium in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
Commissioner Lin Zexu and the Opium War
Popular Responses and Diplomatic Resolutions to the Opium War
CHAPTER 3 - Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rebellions and Qing Responses
VISUAL SOURCE: Taiping Seal
Taiping Rebellion
Muslim Rebellions
Self-Strengthening Movement
CHAPTER 4 -The Deepening Crisis of Imperialism in China (1856-1890)
VISUAL SOURCE: Mapping Imperialism through Treaty Ports
The Second Opium War, the Treaty of Tianjin, and the Burning of Yuanming Yuan
Sino-Japanese War
CHAPTER 5 - Seeking to Solve China's Ills
VISUAL SOURCE: Picturing the Boxers
100 Days Reform Movement
Boxer Uprising
Post-Boxer Reform and the Push for Revolution
PART 2: REPUBLICAN CHINA (1911--1949)
CHAPTER 6 - Revolution, Warlordism, and Intellectual Transformation
VISUAL SOURCE: The Making of a Movement: 1919 Demonstrations in Tiananmen
1911 Revolution
May Fourth Movement
Warlord Era
CHAPTER 7 - China's Struggle for Unity
VISUAL SOURCE: Selling a New Image of 1920s China: Chinese Advertisements
Ideologies and Realities of a Fractured Republic
Rise of the Kuomindang
Origins of the CCP
Literary Currents in 1920s China
CHAPTER 8 - Fractured Visions: Manchuria, Nanjing, and Yan'an in the 1930s
VISUAL SOURCE: Mapping the Long March
Manchukuo: Japan in Manchuria
The Nanjing Decade
CCP: From a Long March to the United Front
CHAPTER 9 - China at War (1937-1949)
VISUAL SOURCE: Drawing People's Attention to Politics: Political cartoons in 1930s and 1940s
Facing the Enemy
Occupied China
Life in Yan'an
The KMT's Road to Defeat and Taiwan
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780367210939 |
ISBN-10: | 0367210932 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Atwill, David G.
Atwill, Yurong Y. |
Auflage: | 2. Auflage |
Hersteller: | Routledge |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de |
Maße: | 280 x 210 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | David G. Atwill (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.03.2021 |
Gewicht: | 1,107 kg |
David G. Atwill teaches Asian History at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two monographs, The Chinese Sultanate (2005) and Islamic Shangri-la (2018), and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including two Fulbright fellowships and an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship.
Yurong Y. Atwill is the Asian Studies Librarian at Pennsylvania State University and received her PhD from Yunnan University. She is the author of Yunnan Knowledge and Outsiders' Impressions: Culture, Transportation and Botantical Resources (in Chinese) and has published numerous articles on Chinese librarianship.
Preface
A Note on Romanization, Names, and Dates
Acknowledgments
PART 1 : LATE IMPERIAL CHINA (1644-1911)
CHAPTER 1 - Early to Mid-Qing
VISUAL SOURCE: Imperial Examination Halls
Rise of Qing: Conquest, Consolidation, and Preservation
- Shunzhi's Head-Shaving Decree (1645)
- Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor (1670)
- Kangxi's Edict Regarding Wu Sangui (1674)
- Qing Rulers Promoting and Preserving Manchu Identity (1635-1850)
- Qing's 29 Regulations for Reorganizing Tibet (1792)
- Kangxi's Edict of Toleration (March 20, 1692)
- Open Letter From Kangxi to Pope Clement XI (October 31, 1716)
- Letter From King George III to the Emperor of China (1792)
- Journal Entries of Lord Macartney During his Journey to China (1793-1794)
- Qianlong's Edict to King George III of England (September 23, 1793)
- Pu Songling's "Three Genii" (c.1679)
- Eight-Legged Essay Civil Service Examination (1818)
- Description of Provincial Examination (c. 1845)
- Lan Dingyuan on Female Education (1712)
- Description of European Factories in Guangzhou (1825-1844)
- Deqing's Memorial on the Responsibilities of the Gonghang (March 23, 1813)
- Rules Regulating Foreign Trading in Guangzhou (1832-1835)
- Opium and Tea Trade with China
- Huang Juezi on the Evil of Opium (june 2, 1838)
- The Opium Question Among Westerners in China (1836-1837)
- Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu's Pronouncement to the Foreigners(March 18, 1839)
- Charles Elliot's Public Notice to British Subjects (March 27, 1839)
- Letter From Lin Zexu to his Wife (1839)
- Letter From Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria (July 19, 1839)
- Guangdong Residents' Denunciation of the British (1841)
- British Parliamentary Discussion of the Resolution on the "Suppression of the Opium Trade" (April 4, 1843)
- Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
- Taiping Anti-Manchu Proclamation (1852)
- Brief Record of the Taiping's Arrival in Nanjing (March 1853)
- Taiping Ten Commandments (1852)
- Taiping Plan for Reorganizing Chinese Society (1853)
- Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty (1853)
- Panthay Rebellion Summons to Arms (1868)
- Rumors of a Tungan Massacre (1864)
- Robert Shaw's Visit to Yarkand and Kashgar (March 3, 1870)
- Feng Guifen on the Adoption of Western Learning (1860)
- Zeng Guofan on Founding the Shanghai Arsenal (1868)
- Li Hongzhang's Memorial Advocating Foreign Language Training (March 11, 1863)
- Woren's Memorial Objecting to Western Learning (1867)
- Harry Parkes' Letter to Commissioner Ye Mingchen (October 8, 1856)
- Reflections of Lord Elgin on the Treaty of Tianjin (June 29, 1858)
- Treaty of Tianjin (June 26, 1858)
- A Narrative on the Looting and Prize Money at the Yuanming Yuan (October 7, 1860)
- China's Declaration of War (1894)
- Japan's Declaration of War (1894)
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895)
- Li Hongzhang, "Afterthoughts of the Japanese War" (June 30, 1895)
- John Hay's Open Door Note (September 6, 1899)
- Description of Chinese Family Life (1883)
- Legal Case Study: Fraudulent Sale of Land (1889)
- Legal Case Study: Marriage (1882)
- Kang Youwei's Memorial on Institutional Reform (January 29, 1898)
- China Mail Interview with Kang Youwei (October 7, 1898)
- Guangxu's Three Secret Decrees (1898)
- Cixi and the Trial of the Reformers (1898)
- Malan Boxer Proclamations (1900)
- Spirit Boxer Possession (1900)
- Imperial Edict to "Declare War" (June 21, 1900)
- Boxer Protocol (September 7, 1901)
- Qing Officials' Joint Proposals for Post-Boxer Reform (1901)
- Qiu Jin's Address to 200 Million Fellow Countrywomen (1904)
- Abolition of the Competitive Examinations in China (1905)
- Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People (1906)
- Demands of the National Assembly, Submitted in a Memorial to the Throne (November 3, 1911)
- First Provisional President's Inaugural Address (January 2, 1912)
- Last Emperor's Abdication Edict (February 12, 1912)
- Sun Yat-sen's Reply to Yuan Shikai and Resignation (February 12, 1912)
- Japan's 21 Demands (January 18, 1915)
- May Fourth Manifesto (May 4, 1919)
- Chen Duxiu's "New Youth" Manifesto (December 1, 1919)
- Hu Shi's Literary Revolution and Renaissance in China (1926)
- Zhang Xun's Reasons for Restoring the Monarchy (1917)
- Warlord Politics: The Game of Playing One Against the Other (1925)
- Remembering the Brutal and Corrupt Warlord Zhang Zongchang (1936)
- The Three Principles of the People (March 6, 1921)
- Manifesto on the Northern Expedition (September 18, 1924)
- Sun Yat-sen's Last Wills and Testament (March 11, 1925)
- "Qingdang": Purging the Party of all Undesirable Elements (April 1927)
- KMT's Purge the Party Slogans (May 1927)
- Proclamation From the Headquarters of the 26th Army (April 22, 1927)
- Chiang Kai-shek's Marriage Proposal to Song Meiling (1927)
- First Manifesto of the CCP on the Current Situation (June 15, 1922)
- Mao Zedong's Reports on an Investigation of Peasant Movement in Hunan (March 1927)
- Land Law of the Jiangxi Soviet (1932)
- Three Main Rules of Discipline and Six Points for Attention (1928)
- Yang Zhihua's "Love and Socializing Between Men and Women" (July 1922)
- Ding Ling's "Miss Sophie's Diary" (1928)
- Ba Jin's "Family" (1931)
- British Consulate Report on the Death of Zhang Zuolin (June 15, 1928)
- Principles for the Organization of the "Manchukuo" Government (1932)
- Lytton Commission Report (October 2, 1932)
- Japanese Declaration and Withdrawal from the League (March 27, 1933)
- Emergency Law for the Suppression of Crimes Against the Safety of the Republic (1931)
- Song Meiling on the New Life Movement (1934)
- FILM: Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934)
- The Long March and Ethnic Borderlands: Two Perspectives (1935)
- Zhang Xueliang's Xi'an Incident Speech (December 13, 1936)
- Mao Zedong's Statement on Chiang Kai-shek's Statement (December 28, 1936)
- Communist Co-operation by the Central Committee of the CCP (July 15, 1937)
- Letter to the Japanese Embassy From Nanjing Safety Zone (December 18, 1937)
- Song Meiling's "Only the Sword is Left" (July 17, 1938)
- FILM: Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
- Wang Jingwei's Telegraph to Chiang Kai-shek Indicating His Collaboration With the Japanese (1938)
- [Occupied] China-Japan: Treaty Concerning Basic Relations-Annexed Protocol (November 30, 1940)
- Chiang Kai-shek, "China's War, a World War" (July 7, 1942)
- Ding Ling' s "Thoughts on March 8, Women's Day" (1942)
- Wang Shiwei's "Wild Lilies" (1942)
- Mao "Talk at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art" (May 1942)
- Wen Yiduo's "Last Speech" (July 15, 1946)
- Republic of China's...
Qing China and Relations With Europe
Education, Examinations, and Literature
CHAPTER 2 - The Opium War
VISUAL SOURCE: Guangzhou, the Pearl River Delta and the World
Trade in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
Opium in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
Commissioner Lin Zexu and the Opium War
Popular Responses and Diplomatic Resolutions to the Opium War
CHAPTER 3 - Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rebellions and Qing Responses
VISUAL SOURCE: Taiping Seal
Taiping Rebellion
Muslim Rebellions
Self-Strengthening Movement
CHAPTER 4 -The Deepening Crisis of Imperialism in China (1856-1890)
VISUAL SOURCE: Mapping Imperialism through Treaty Ports
The Second Opium War, the Treaty of Tianjin, and the Burning of Yuanming Yuan
Sino-Japanese War
CHAPTER 5 - Seeking to Solve China's Ills
VISUAL SOURCE: Picturing the Boxers
100 Days Reform Movement
Boxer Uprising
Post-Boxer Reform and the Push for Revolution
PART 2: REPUBLICAN CHINA (1911--1949)
CHAPTER 6 - Revolution, Warlordism, and Intellectual Transformation
VISUAL SOURCE: The Making of a Movement: 1919 Demonstrations in Tiananmen
1911 Revolution
May Fourth Movement
Warlord Era
CHAPTER 7 - China's Struggle for Unity
VISUAL SOURCE: Selling a New Image of 1920s China: Chinese Advertisements
Ideologies and Realities of a Fractured Republic
Rise of the Kuomindang
Origins of the CCP
Literary Currents in 1920s China
CHAPTER 8 - Fractured Visions: Manchuria, Nanjing, and Yan'an in the 1930s
VISUAL SOURCE: Mapping the Long March
Manchukuo: Japan in Manchuria
The Nanjing Decade
CCP: From a Long March to the United Front
CHAPTER 9 - China at War (1937-1949)
VISUAL SOURCE: Drawing People's Attention to Politics: Political cartoons in 1930s and 1940s
Facing the Enemy
Occupied China
Life in Yan'an
The KMT's Road to Defeat and Taiwan
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780367210939 |
ISBN-10: | 0367210932 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Atwill, David G.
Atwill, Yurong Y. |
Auflage: | 2. Auflage |
Hersteller: | Routledge |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de |
Maße: | 280 x 210 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | David G. Atwill (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.03.2021 |
Gewicht: | 1,107 kg |