Haijian Mao

Gebundenes Buch

The Qing Empire and the Opium War

Beschreibung

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists, offering a comprehensive explanation as to why the Qing Empire was so badly defeated by the British.

Autor

Mao Haijian is a professor of history at the University of Macau and East China Normal University. He studied at Sun Yat-sen University and East China Normal University. He has previously held appointments at the Institute of Military Science, the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, and Peking University. His books and essays have won numerous prizes, and include several monographs on the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, a further monograph on the Opium Wars, and a biography of the Xianfeng emperor.

Produktdetails

• The Cambridge China Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069879
• ISBN-10: 1107069874
• Artikelnr.: 45155505