Huaiyin Li

The Making of the Modern Chinese State (eBook, ePUB)

1600-1950

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600-1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding modern China's development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429777899
• Artikelnr.: 57471496

Autorenporträt

Huaiyin Li is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936; Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Microhistory, 1948-2008; and Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
PART I
The formation of the Qing state
2 The rise of an early modern territorial state: China in the
early to mid-Qing period
3 Limits to territorial expansion: fiscal constitution and
war-making under the Qing
PART II
The transition to a sovereign state
4 Regionalized centralism: the resilience and fragility of the
late Qing state
5 Between the frontier and the coast: geopolitical strategy
reoriented
6 A nation-state in the making: Manchu-Han relations under
the New Policies
PART III
The making of a unified and centralized state
7 Centralized regionalism: the rise of regional fiscal-military
states
8 In search of national unity: frontier rebuilding under the
Republic
9 The fate of semi-centralism: the nationalist state succeeded
and failed
10 Total centralism at work: the confluence of breakthroughs
in state-making
11 Conclusion
List of characters
References
Index