A Brief Modern Chinese History. Haipeng Zhang

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      ibidem-Press, Stuttgart

      Contents

       1. The Opium Wars and China’s Decline

       China and the World before 1840

       British Opium Smuggling and Lin Zexu’s Anti-Smuggling Endeavor

       The Treaty of Nanjing and Its Aftermath

       The Chinese Intellectuals’ Reaction and Solution

       Social Changes in Post-War China

       2. The Qing Government in Despair

       The Taiping Rebellion and Its Socio-Political Experiments

       The Aggressive Anglo-French Expedition Against China

       Tsarist Russia: A Grabber of Chinese Lands

       The Taiping Rebellion in Its Late Phase: Zeng Guofan and the Hunan Army

       The Fall of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace

       3. The Lost Three Decades

       Changes of the Central and Local Governments

       The Self-Strengthening Movement (SSM)

       Reformism in Its Initial Stages

       Border Crises and the Sino-French War

       Endless Incidents Involving Christian Missionaries

       The 1895 Sino-Japanese War

       The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Cession of Taiwan

       4. Post-1895 China: Reform, Rebellion, and Revolution

       Return of the Liao Dong Peninsula to China and the Imperialist Powers’ Rat Race in the Far East

       The Scramble for China

       China’s Sprouting National Capitalism

       Sun Yat-sen and Early Revolutionaries

       The Abortive 1898 Hundred Days’ Reform

       The Boxer Uprising: A Chinese Peasants’ Patriotic Anti-Imperialistic Endeavor

       The Aggressive Allied Forces of the Eight Powers and Qing’s Response

       The Boxer Protocol and a Fully Semi-Colonized and Semi-Feudalized China

       5. On the Eve of Great Change

       Qing’s New Policies and Ensuing Social Changes

       The British Empire’s Invasion of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese Conflict in Northeast China

       Tongmenghui and the Debates Involving Revolutionaries and Conservatives

       Boycotting American Goods and Restoring China’s Rights

       Building China’s Constitutional Monarchy

       The Revolutionaries in Action

       6. The 1911 Revolution: A Blend of Success and Failure

       The Crisis-Ridden Qing

       The Huanghuagang Uprising and Railway Protection Movement

       The Wuchang Uprising

       Sun Yat-sen, President of the Nanjing Provisional Government

       The Collapse of Qing and the Rise of Yuan Shikai

       7. China at Its Lowest Ebb: The Rule of the Beiyang Warlords

       Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen

       The Rapid Collapse of the Hongxian Reign

       China under the Warlords’ Rule

       The Growth of China’s National Capitalism and the Working Class

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