Rethinking the Decline of China's Qing Dynasty:
Imperial Activism and Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Author: McMahon, Daniel.
Series: Asian States and Empires (Book 6)
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge, 2015
ISBN-10: 1138791040
ISBN-13: 978-1138791046
The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China's borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and the incipient decline of the imperial Qing dynasty. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that, on the contrary, the response of the imperial government went well beyond pacification and reconstruction, and demonstrates that the imperial political culture was dynamic, innovative and capable of confronting contemporary challenges. The author highlights in particular the Jiaqing Reforms of 1799, which enabled national reformist ideology, activist-oriented administrative education, the development of specialised frontier officials, comprehensive borderland rehabilitation, and the sharing of borderland administration best practice between different regions. Overall, the book shows that the Qing regime had sustained vigour, albeit in difficult and changing circumstances.
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Publisher: Routledge, 2015
ISBN-10: 1138791040
ISBN-13: 978-1138791046
The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China's borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and the incipient decline of the imperial Qing dynasty. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that, on the contrary, the response of the imperial government went well beyond pacification and reconstruction, and demonstrates that the imperial political culture was dynamic, innovative and capable of confronting contemporary challenges. The author highlights in particular the Jiaqing Reforms of 1799, which enabled national reformist ideology, activist-oriented administrative education, the development of specialised frontier officials, comprehensive borderland rehabilitation, and the sharing of borderland administration best practice between different regions. Overall, the book shows that the Qing regime had sustained vigour, albeit in difficult and changing circumstances.
Table of contents
List of illustrations viiAcknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Part 1 Transitions in education and ideology 15
1 The Yuelu Academy and Hunan's nineteenth-century turn toward statecraft 17
2 Dynastic decline, Heshen, and the ideology of the Jiaqing Reforms 42
Part 2 Management of the Hunan Miao Frontier 59
3 Identity and conflict on a Chinese borderland: Yan Ruyi and the recruitment of the Gelao during the 1795-7 Miao revolt 61
4 New order on China's Hunan Miao Frontier, 1796-1812 86
Part 3 Management of the southern Shaanxi highlands 103
5 Qing reconstruction in the southern Shaanxi highlands: state perceptions and plans, 1799-1820 105
6 Southern Shaanxi border officials in early nineteenth-century China 132
Part 4 Management of the Guangdong coast 163
7 Qing highland precedent, Yan Ruyi, and the defense of the Guangdong coast, 1804-5 165
Glossary 192
References 200
Index
About the Author
Daniel McMahon is a Professor in the Department of History, at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Part 1 Transitions in education and ideology 15
1 The Yuelu Academy and Hunan's nineteenth-century turn toward statecraft 17
2 Dynastic decline, Heshen, and the ideology of the Jiaqing Reforms 42
Part 2 Management of the Hunan Miao Frontier 59
3 Identity and conflict on a Chinese borderland: Yan Ruyi and the recruitment of the Gelao during the 1795-7 Miao revolt 61
4 New order on China's Hunan Miao Frontier, 1796-1812 86
Part 3 Management of the southern Shaanxi highlands 103
5 Qing reconstruction in the southern Shaanxi highlands: state perceptions and plans, 1799-1820 105
6 Southern Shaanxi border officials in early nineteenth-century China 132
Part 4 Management of the Guangdong coast 163
7 Qing highland precedent, Yan Ruyi, and the defense of the Guangdong coast, 1804-5 165
Glossary 192
References 200
Index
About the Author
Daniel McMahon is a Professor in the Department of History, at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
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