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Quest for Power : European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft / Stephen R. Halsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halsey, Stephen R., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--China--History.
- Nation-building.
- Great powers--History.
- Great powers.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- China--Politics and government--1644-1912.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1912-1949.
- China--Economic policy.
- China--Military policy.
- Europe--Colonies--Asia--History.
- Europe.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1871-1918.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1918-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- China’s late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this narrative, Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China’s current great-power status to this so-called decadent era, when threats of war with European and Japanese empirestriggered innovative state-building and statecraft.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: State-Making and Empire in a World-Historical Context
- 1. Europe’s Global Conquest
- 2. Foreign Trade
- 3. Money
- 4. Bureaucracy
- 5. Guns
- 6. Transportation
- 7. Communication
- Epilogue: State- Making in China, 1850–1949
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-08912-X
- OCLC:
- 925305839
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