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

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University of California Press, Dec 30, 1997 - History - 276 pages
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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Contents

List of Maps Figures and Tables Introduction
3
PART
9
SANYUANLI The Politics of Patriotism 18391841
11
The Militia of Kwangtung
22
The Gentry and Sanyuanli
29
Traitor in Our Midst
42
We and They
52
PART TWO STRANGERS AT THE GATE The Politics of Resistance 18421849
59
The Circle Tightens
132
The Red Turban Revolt
139
The Purge
149
CANTON CONQUERED The Politics of Collaboration
157
The Resistance Movement
168
71
202
81
203
90
206

Righteous or Rebellious?
61
Time Runs Out VII The Entry Dilemma
71
The Victory of 1849
95
29
97
42
98
52
102
PART THREE REBELLION AND REACTION The Politics of Localism 18501856
107
Class and Clan
109
The Secret Societies of South China
117
Kwangtung and the Taiping Rebellion
126
109
212
117
214
126
216
132
217
139
218
149
220
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
225
GLOSSARY
249
INDEX
257
Copyright

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Frederic Wakeman
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academies allied commission allies antiforeign Arrow war attack bandits barbarians began Bonham-Palmerston braves British Canton Cantonese century Ch'en Ch'i-ying Ch'ing Period Ch'ing-tai chap chin-tai China chüan Chung-hsi chi-shih Chung-kuo clan Cohong Commissioner Confucian defense Desp dynasty Emperor English Fatshan foreign gentry Governor-General History Honam Hong Howqua Hsia Hsieh Hsiang-shan Hsiao I-shan hsien hsien-chih Hsien-feng Huang Hung Society Ibid Imperial Incl IWSM July KCFC Kuang-chou Kuang-tung jen-min Kuang-tung-sheng Kuei Kwangsi Kwangtung land leaders Liang Ting-nan Lin Tse-hsü lineage magistrate Manchu March merchants military Ming Morrison's report Nan-hai Nemesis NHHC Notes to Chapter officials Opium Opium War organization P'an-yü Parkes peasants Peking province R. H. Tawney rebels Red Turbans San-yuan-li schools secret societies Sept Shanghai she-hsüeh Sheng-p'ing shih shu-yuan Shun-te social T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo T'ing-nan t'uan-lien taels Taipei Taiping Rebellion thousand TKHC trade troops Tun-yen Tung-kuan villages Ya-p'ien chan-cheng yamen Yeh Ming-ch'en YPCC

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About the author (1997)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitleStrangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
Publications (University of California, Berkeley. Center for Chinese Studies)
AuthorFrederic Wakeman
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1997
ISBN0520212398, 9780520212398
Length276 pages
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