C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Pat...(展开全部)

C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Pat...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues. Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success Reveals new findings conc...(展开全部)

Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues. Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success Reveals new findings conc...(展开全部)

作者簡介 馬世嘉（Matthew W. Mosca） 美國哈佛大學歷史與東亞語言博士，師承孔飛力（Philip A. Kuhn）、歐立德（Mark C. Elliott）與濮德培（Peter C. Perdue）。曾於美國加州大學柏克萊分校與香港大學進行博士後研究，現任西雅圖華盛頓大學歷史系助理教授。研究領域包括中國與內陸亞洲史，尤其關注大清帝國的對外關係以及清代地理與史學思想史。 譯者簡介 羅盛吉 著迷於歷史與語言，現為自由譯者。