The Peking gazette : : a reader in nineteenth-century Chinese history / / by Lane J. Harris.

• Author: Harris, Lane J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Notes: "Scholarly introductions to thematic chapters of translated primary sources from the government gazette of the Qing Empire"--Publisher summary.; Includes index.

In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History , Lane J. Harris offers an innovative text covering the extraordinary ruptures and remarkable continuities in the history of China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) by providing scholarly introductions to thematic chapters of...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgements
• Qing Reign Periods
• Terms of Measurement, Units of Currency, and Bureaucratic Titles
• Introduction
• The Macartney Audience, 1793*
• The Last Will and Testament of the Qianlong Emperor, 1799
• The Case against Heshen, 1799
• The Downfall of a Governor-General in the White Lotus Rebellion, 1800
• The Eight Trigrams Rebellion, 1813
• An English Barbarian Ship, 1832
• The Opium Debate, 1836
• The Opium War, 1839–1842
• Surviving the Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864
• The Coup d’état of 1861
• End of the Miao Rebellions, 1872
• The Incredible Famine, 1876–1879
• Imperial Rainmaking Practices, 1875–1879
• The Dalai Lama and the Qing Empire, 1879–1910
• Crime and Punishment
• Honoring Old Age
• Honoring the Gods
• The Cult of Female Chastity
• “True Stories” of Filial Piety
• “Tribute” Missions to the Qing Empire
• The Making of Taiwan Province, 1872–1887
• The Sino-French War, 1884–1885
• Anti-Missionary Violence, 1891–1899
• The Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895
• The Hundred Days’ Reforms, 1898
• The Return of the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1898
• The Boxer Uprising, 1899–1900
• New Policies Reforms, 1901–1911
• The 1911 Revolution
• The Abdication, 1912.