Strangers at the Gate: Social Unrest in Southern 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 author begins "Strangers at the Gate" with the famous "Sanyuanli" incident at home and abroad, and then examines and studies the anti-British movement centered in Guangzhou during and after the Opium War. This book reconstructs and reproduces the regiment training movement, the functions of the gentry class, the court's response, the British forces' forced entry into Guangzhou, and their trade with China, etc., And provides an in-depth analysis of this series of complex events and phenomena. While restoring historical facts, the author reveals the causes of various phenomena and the causal relationships between them. This short work contains extremely rich and important historical themes.
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