Research on the Late Qing History (Nanqiang Academic Series)

Author: Zheng Jianshun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The author is a professor at the Department of History, Xiamen University. This book collects more than forty of his academic papers, primarily discussing issues related to late Qing history. It includes analyzing late Qing problems through emotion and reason, theoretical and current issues in late Qing history research, the Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sino-French War, the Self-Strengthening Movement, explorations on the Fujian Shipyard and the Naval Academy, the First Sino-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing government's foreign attitude, its attitude towards political system reform, and the self-strengthening and economic ideas of officials during the Self-Strengthening Movement. The book mainly studies the thoughts of key figures such as Feng Guifen, Shen Baozhen, Zhang Zhidong, Yan Fu, and Sun Yat-sen.