The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600-1950
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-36245-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China.

This book explores the question of why today’s China is unlike any other nation-state in size and structure. It inquires into the reasons behind the striking continuity in China's territorial and ethnic compositions over the past centuries, and explicates the genesis and tenacity of the Chinese state as a highly centralized and unified regime that has been able to survive into the twenty-first century. Its analysis centres on three key variables, namely geopolitical strategy, fiscal constitution, and identity building, and it demonstrates how they worked together to shape the outcome of state transformation in modern China.

Enhanced by a selection of informative tables and illustrations, The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 is ideal for undergraduates and graduates studying East Asian history, Chinese history, empires in Asia, and state formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Huaiyin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

PART I

The formation of the Qing state

2 The rise of an early modern territorial state: China in the

early to mid-Qing period

3 Limits to territorial expansion: fiscal constitution and

war-making under the Qing

PART II

The transition to a sovereign state

4 Regionalized centralism: the resilience and fragility of the

late Qing state

5 Between the frontier and the coast: geopolitical strategy

reoriented

6 A nation-state in the making: Manchu–Han relations under

the New Policies

PART III

The making of a unified and centralized state

7 Centralized regionalism: the rise of regional fiscal-military

states

8 In search of national unity: frontier rebuilding under the

Republic

9 The fate of semi-centralism: the nationalist state succeeded

and failed

10 Total centralism at work: the confluence of breakthroughs

in state-making

11 Conclusion

List of characters

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Huaiyin Li is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875–1936; Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Microhistory, 1948–2008; and Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing.