HIS280Y1 Lecture : China and the World, Around 1800.docx
Document Summary
Major journals for the history of china (available through uoft library website, ejournals): Journal of asian studies: toung pao, late imperial china, ming studies, nan mu, modern china. Finishing up the high qing period: the granary system. The macartney embassy (1793), the heshen affair (1796-1799), and the white lotus rebellion (1796-1804) The emergence of a properly capitalist world-economy, and what that means: the british in america and bengal, comparative colonialism and imperialism, again. The decline of china and the ascent of europe: the opium trade, the canton system, the lead-up to the opium wars (1839-42, 1856-60) The high qing period is both a culmination/continuation of long-term trends in chinese history and also an instance of new trends and developments. Schematically speaking, the kangxi emperor tried to organize his policies around the interests of the gentry (tax remissions, etc. ) The yongzheng emperor took a number of steps to centralize administration and finance, sometimes at the expense of the gentry.
