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Modern Chinese history; selected readings;

Title: Modern Chinese history; selected readings; a collection of extracts from various sources chosen to illustrate some of the chief phases of China's international relations during the past hundred years, by Harley Farnsworth MacNair.
Author: MacNair, Harley Farnsworth, 1891-1947
Publication: Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1923.

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Description

xxxvii, 910 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, plan); 23 cm

Subject

1800-1949
Diplomatic relations
China > History > 19th century
China > History > Republic, 1912-1949
China > Foreign relations
China
China > History > Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901

Genre/Form

History

Note

Title in Chinese at head of t.-p.

Bibliography (note)

"Supplementary readings" at end of each chapter.

Contents

Background -- Canton before 1842 -- Cause of 1st Anglo-Chinese war: Napier affair; opium -- Anglo-Chinese war & after -- Peace & international readjustment -- 2nd Anglo-chinese war: 1856-1858; 1859-1861 -- Taiping rebellion -- Events 1860-1875 -- Relations with Europe 1873-1886 -- Relations with Japan 1871-1895 -- Impending breakup & outbreak in China 1896-1901 -- Far east 1900-1905 -- Fall of Empire, establishment of Republic -- Domestic & foreign relations 1912-1916; 1916-1922.

LCCN

24012925

OCLC

ocm03633880
3633880
SCSB-14449417

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library