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Chinese representation in the United States
In: University of Colorado studies
In: Series in history 5
CHÜN-TU HSÜEH. Huang Hsing and the Chinese Revolution. (Stanford Studies in History, Economics, and Political Science, XX.) Pp. xi, 260. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1961. $5.75
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 342, Issue 1, p. 178-179
ISSN: 1552-3349
Chinese Intellectuals and the Western Impact, 1838–1900
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 26-37
ISSN: 1475-2999
The Chinese scholar-official had long constituted a special type of iron-clad intelligentsia, firmly based on the Confucian tradition and accustomed to rule China with unchallenged authority. This tradition was threatened for the first time in 1838 with the outbreak of the "Opium" or First Anglo-Chinese War. Outwardly, this was a simple military defeat by a "barbarian" force on one frontier of China, remote from the capital and court at Peking. As such it was nothing new in Chinese history. Hsiung-nu, Toba Tartars, Mongols and Manchus had threatened and overrun Chinese borders through the centuries. To most articulate Chinese both this and successive assaults on China through the nineteenth century, were adequately explained by the traditional and reassuring formula.
Extraterritoriality and the Wabash Case
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 45, Issue 3, p. 564-571
ISSN: 2161-7953
British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 415
ISSN: 1715-3379