This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. The con...(展开全部)

This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government within China. Contributors to...(展开全部)

This volume of The Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in Volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in Volume 10. Ten chapters elucidate th...(展开全部)

This volume of The Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in Volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in Volume 10. Ten chapters elucidate th...(展开全部)

This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers. After a preliminary overview stre...(展开全部)

This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers. After a preliminary overview stre...(展开全部)

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering in...(展开全部)

This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. Original and innovative in widely differing ways as was the work of Lucretius, Sallust and Caesar in particular, the scene is domi...(展开全部)

中国是人口大国，其历史和文化的连续性在我们现代世界中也占有独特的地位。在这本单卷本历史书中，作者追溯了中国文化从史前时代到现代的起源。她跟随其发展，从儒家、佛教的兴起，到帝国王朝，再到外敌入侵，以及现代国家。她的视野涵盖了中国的艺术、文化、经济、社会及其对妇女的待遇、外交政策、移民和政治。本书既是对这个文明的介绍，也是对中国历史连续性的探索，是了解中国过去和现在的指南。

本书原为《剑桥中国史》第10卷和第11卷，叙述自清代道光年间至辛亥革命时期的中国历史。上卷包括导言旧秩序、清代的疆土、清王朝的衰落与叛乱的根源、鸦片战争、不平等条约、太平军起义、中俄关系、清在蒙古、新疆、西藏的统治、清代中兴、自强运动、1900年以前的基督教传教活动及其影响。下卷包括1870—1911年晚清帝国的经济趋向、晚清对外关系、中国人对西方关系看法的变化、西北与沿海的军事挑战、思想的变化与维新运动、日本与中国的辛亥革命、1901—1911年政治和制度的改革、辛亥革命前的政府、商人和工业、共和革命运动、社会变化的潮流，等等。本书作者皆为西方知名学者，译者为我院历史所编译室专家。本书据1978年本翻译，于1993年出版，当时将第10、11卷合为《剑桥中国晚清史》上下卷出版，使用一个书号，此次再版仍延用这种做法。