White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates - Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire - Wensheng Wang - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press - 2014 -
Brand: Harvard University Press
Description
Wensheng Wang argues that a dramatic combination of internal uprising and transnational piracy during Emperor Jiaqing's reign, rather than being a hallmark of dynastic decline, propelled the Manchu court to reorganize itself through modifications in policymaking and bureaucracy that sustained the Qing Empire for another century.
