ISBN:
9780231152020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 p. ;c)
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ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Protest with Chinese Characteristics : Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
DDC:
303.48/4095109033
Keywords:
Petitions History 18th century
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Demonstrations History 18th century
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Riots History 18th century
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Protest movements History 18th century
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China - Social conditions - 18th century
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China Social conditions 18th century
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China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Abstract:
The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid-Qing petitions and humble plaints to the emperor. He revisits rallies, riots, market strikes, and other forms of contention rarely considered in previous studies. Drawing on new world history, which a
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. MARKET EXPANSION, STATE CENTRALIZATION, AND NEO-CONFUCIANISM IN QING CHINA; 2. DOCUMENTING THE THREE WAVES OF MID-QING PROTEST; 3. FILIAL- LOYAL DEMONSTRATIONS, 1740-1759; 4. RIOTS INTO REBELLION, 1776-1795; ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHINESE PROTEST FROM QING TIMES TO PRESENT; 5. RESISTANCE AND PETITIONS, 1820-1839; 6. MID-QING PROTESTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; EPILOGUE: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT; NOTES; REFERENCES; GLOSSARY; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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