The Cambridge History of ChinaCall Number: REF 951 C178 1978
Focuses on the decline of the Ch'ing Empire. Surveys the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Studies the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Includes maps and bibliographical essays.