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The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

Door Robert Bickers

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#390993-ZF6
Titel
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
Auteur
Bickers, Robert
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Allen Lane
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
0713997494
ISBN13
9780713997491
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, map, index, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In the early 19th century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese was executed. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationship, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by the Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? Humiliated by military disaster, racked by rebellions that cost millions of lives and ultimately invaded during the Boxer Rebellion by thousands of foreign soldiers, it looked as though the colonial Scramble for Africa was about to be followed by the Scramble for Chin... (Lees verder)a. This extraordinary new book tells this epic story both from the European (mainly British) point of view and the Chinese. The degradation of China in this period is crucially important to understanding China today, whose government and people are steeped in stories of this terrible time and never wish to appear weak again. The Scramble for China is both highly original and brilliantly written - it reimagines these encounters between two equally arrogant and scornful civilizations, whether from the point of view of a Chinese governor or a British soldier. It is an epic of squalor, romance, brutality and exoticism, and it changed the world.
Pagina's
495
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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