Imperial China, 900-1800 / F.W. Mote.
Mote, Frederick W.,
Imperial China, 900-1800 / F.W. Mote. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. - xix, 1107 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1057-1083) and index.
Part 1. Conquest dynasties and the Northern Song, 900-1127. The five dynasties --
Abaoji --
Building the Liao Empire --
Liao civilization --
Creating the Song Dynasty --
The world of ideas in Northern Song China --
Dimensions of Northern Song life --
Origins of the Xi Xia State --
Part 2. Conquest dynasties and the Southern Song, 1127-1279. The "Wild Jurchens" erupt into history --
The Jurchen State and its cultural policy --
The later Xi Xia State --
Trends of change under Jin Alien rule --
The Southern Song and Chinese survival --
Chinese civilization and the Song achievement --
Southern Song life-a broader view --
A mid-thirteenth-century overview --
Part 3. China and the Mongol world. The career of the Great Khan Chinggis --
Forging the Mongol world empire, 1206-1260 --
Khubilai Khan becomes Emperor of China --
China under Mongol rule --
Part 4. The restoration of Native Rule under the Ming, 1368-1644. From chaos toward a new Chinese order --
Zhu Yuanzhang builds his Ming Dynasty --
Civil war and usurpation, 1399-1402 --
The "Second Founding" of the Ming Dynasty --
Ming China in the fifteenth century --
The changing world of the sixteenth century --
Ming China's borders --
Late Ming political decline, 1567-1627 --
The lively society of the late Ming --
The course of Ming failure --
Part 5. China and the world in early Qing times. Alien rule returns --
The Kangxi Emperor: coming of age --
The Kangxi reign: the emperor and his empire --
The Yongzheng emperor as man and ruler --
Splendor and degeneration, 1736-1799 --
China's legacy in a changing world --
Appendix. Conversion table, Pinyin to Wade-Giles. TOC
This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule.
0674445155
99031840
China--History--960-1644.
China--History--1644-1795.
DS750.64 / .M67 1999
951.02 / MOI 1999
Imperial China, 900-1800 / F.W. Mote. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. - xix, 1107 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1057-1083) and index.
Part 1. Conquest dynasties and the Northern Song, 900-1127. The five dynasties --
Abaoji --
Building the Liao Empire --
Liao civilization --
Creating the Song Dynasty --
The world of ideas in Northern Song China --
Dimensions of Northern Song life --
Origins of the Xi Xia State --
Part 2. Conquest dynasties and the Southern Song, 1127-1279. The "Wild Jurchens" erupt into history --
The Jurchen State and its cultural policy --
The later Xi Xia State --
Trends of change under Jin Alien rule --
The Southern Song and Chinese survival --
Chinese civilization and the Song achievement --
Southern Song life-a broader view --
A mid-thirteenth-century overview --
Part 3. China and the Mongol world. The career of the Great Khan Chinggis --
Forging the Mongol world empire, 1206-1260 --
Khubilai Khan becomes Emperor of China --
China under Mongol rule --
Part 4. The restoration of Native Rule under the Ming, 1368-1644. From chaos toward a new Chinese order --
Zhu Yuanzhang builds his Ming Dynasty --
Civil war and usurpation, 1399-1402 --
The "Second Founding" of the Ming Dynasty --
Ming China in the fifteenth century --
The changing world of the sixteenth century --
Ming China's borders --
Late Ming political decline, 1567-1627 --
The lively society of the late Ming --
The course of Ming failure --
Part 5. China and the world in early Qing times. Alien rule returns --
The Kangxi Emperor: coming of age --
The Kangxi reign: the emperor and his empire --
The Yongzheng emperor as man and ruler --
Splendor and degeneration, 1736-1799 --
China's legacy in a changing world --
Appendix. Conversion table, Pinyin to Wade-Giles. TOC
This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule.
0674445155
99031840
China--History--960-1644.
China--History--1644-1795.
DS750.64 / .M67 1999
951.02 / MOI 1999