TY - BOOK ID - 6847800 TI - The Ch'ing empire to 1800 PY - 2002 SN - 0521243343 9780521243353 9780521243346 9781139193078 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - S04/0400 KW - S04/0100 KW - 951.07 KW - S04/0690 KW - China: History--General works: China KW - China: History--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections: general and before 1840 KW - Geschiedenis van China: Mantsjoe-keizers ; Qing-dynastie (1644-1799) KW - China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 KW - China KW - History KW - 951.07 Geschiedenis van China: Mantsjoe-keizers ; Qing-dynastie (1644-1799) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6847800 AB - Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring. ER -