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Silbey, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, 2012

Game in China. New York  Hill and Wang, 2012.  304 pp.  $26.95 (cloth), ... Rebellion and the Great Game in China In early December 1899, the American minister in China, E. H. Conger, received a breathless and terrifying ...

Dikotter, The Discourse of Race in Modern China, 1992.

China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992. xiv + 251 pp. ... (paper), I SBN 978-0-8047-1994-0. Reviewed by: Ralph A. Litzinger, Duke ... politics in  late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It has ...

Japanese Government, “Twenty-One Demands,” April 26, 1915

that as regards the railway to be built by China herself from Chefoo or Lungkow ... the privilege of financing the Chefoo-Weihsien line, China will approach Japanese ... and the Chinese Government, with a view to developing their economic relations ...

Seung-joon Lee, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton, 2011

Reviews Reviews- Pre-1949 China Topic:  Culture Economics Health Politics ... of Its Calories: Rice and Modernity in Canton During China ... late imperial China. The second half focuses on the Guomindang ...

Bakken, ed. Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China, 2005.

of China's economic expansion has been well told, the dramatic changes ... Børge Bakken, ed. Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China. Lanham: Rowman ... beyond the Great Wall: Crime and Punishment in China When President Richard ...

Treaty of Tianjin (Tien-tsin), 1858

of the Senate of the United States, and by His Majesty the Emperor of China ... be deposited at Pekin, the capital of His Majesty the Emperor of China, in charge of the Privy council; and, as ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China, shall ...

Treaty of Wangxia (Treaty of Wang-hsia 望廈條約), May 18, 1844

of the United States to China, and the August Sovereign of the Ta-Tsing [DaQing ... resorting to China for the purpose of commerce will pay the duties of import ... of China.  If the Chinese Government desire to modify in any respect the said ...

Meyer-Fong, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th century China, 2013

with Civil War in 19th century China.  Stanford  Stanford University Press, ... and tactics to examine the social, economic, political, and even cultural ... the Taiping Rebellion in nineteenth-century China. While there is no indication ...

Isett, State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862, 2007

perspective on China's pre-industrial economic history. According to them, ... for EH.NET by Peer Vries, Institute for Economic and Social  History, ... at the  University of Minnesota and a specialist in the economic history of  ...

Kiely, The Compelling Ideal- thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (January 1, 2014)

and the Prison in China, 1901-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 416 pp. ... China’s sovereignty, but a number of foreign powers agreed to abolish extraterritoriality if China pursued modernizing reforms of its legal and penal ...

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