Imperial China, 1350-1900 - Porter, Jonathan (Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
Part I. The classical legacy, 1000-1350 -- Song: the great divide -- The barbarian ascendancy -- The imperial myth: the mandate of heaven -- Part II. The imperial way, 1350-1650 -- The rise of the Ming -- Autocrat, bureaucrat, empress, eunuch -- The Ming and the world -- Luan: disintegration of order -- Part III. The high qing, 1650-1800 -- The Manchu Revolution -- Style and substance: imperial culture -- Imperial absolutism: the monarch and the minister -- Part IV. Ming and Qing: social, economic, cultural, and intellectual foundations, 1350-1900 -- The good earth -- Merchants and markets -- Official life and literati culture -- Images in the heavens, patterns on the earth -- The spiritual world -- The relevance of Confucius -- Part V. When worlds collide, 1500-1870 -- The empire and the garden -- Opium -- The heavenly kingdom -- Part VI. Continuity in change: on the threshold of revolution, 1870-1890 -- Self-strengthening and its fate -- Epilogue: the twilight of imperial China.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-377) and index.
Keywords: China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.; China -- History -- 960-1644.