Rebellions in the Late Imperial China and its Enemies

Author:Philip A. Kuhn
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Publish Date:2002-01-01
Features:This book is a masterpiece by Philip A. Kuhn, a professor at Harvard University in the United States, which uses a large amount of local chronicles and other Chinese materials to study from a social science perspective. It focuses on the militia, local armed forces, and the resulting changes in social structure during the late Qing Dynasty in China; it explores the beginning of modern China by examining the social structural changes caused by internal events such as the White Lotus Rebellion and the brewing outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion.