Strangers at the Gate: Social Unrest in South China, 1839–1861
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This book is Professor Wei Feide's doctoral thesis, an academic work that studies China's transformation into modern times in the late Qing Dynasty. The main "gate" to China in the Qing Dynasty was Guangzhou, and the "strangers" were foreigners. As the name suggests, "Strangers at the Gate" is related to the history of foreigners breaking into Guangzhou (the gate of China), and about the foreign invasion of China during the Opium War. However, this book is not mainly based on this study. Instead, it uses the two Opium Wars of the British invasion of China as clues to study the social dynamics of Guangzhou and Guangdong Province during this historical period, such as the attitudes of the government, gentry, regiment training, farmers, etc. Towards foreign countries; their respective activities, mutual relationships and changes, thereby revealing some trends in the beginning of modern Chinese history.
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