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Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

by Frederic Wakeman (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $46.90
Synopsis

Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history. Wakeman shows how prevailing rural discontent, urban riots, secret society activity, and the imbalance of class and clan affected the mechanisms of regional power and gentry control, demonstrating the progression of rebellion and the historical inevitability of revolution.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 292
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 30 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 0520212398
ISBN 13: 9780520212398

Media Reviews
Well documented with an impressive bibliography of Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources and archives from the British Foreign Office. . . . Professor Wakeman has done assiduous research and produced a remarkable book which makes a considerable contribution to the academic field. -- Political Science Quarterly
Author Bio
Frederic Wakeman Jr. is Haas Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on China including The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (California, 1985), and Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (California, 1994, also available in paperback).