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050 00 $aDS756.33$b.D35 2019
082 00 $a951/.033$223
100 1 $aDai, Yingcong,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe White Lotus War :$brebellion and suppression in late imperial China /$cYingcong Dai.
263 $a1906
264 1 $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$c[2019]
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axxi, 642 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The White Lotus War examines the Qing dynasty's suppression campaign against the White Lotus Rebellion in central China at the turn of the nineteenth century, 1796-1805, marking the end of the Qing golden age and the start of dynastic decline. This study provides detailed accounts and in-depth analyses of the roots and dynamics of the Qing's failure to speedily put down the rebellion. Contrary to common belief in the gravity of the rebellion, it shows that the rebels were far from being able to seriously challenge the Qing and that the major reason the hostilities lasted so long was that the Qing military fought the war halfheartedly and took advantage of the campaign to pursue personal gains, which triggered strife between the throne and military and among military units. The White Lotus war represented a serious political crisis for the Qing, as its central government was no longer able to operate its military machine, which presaged the beginning of disintegration of Qing central power in the mid-nineteenth century. The White Lotus War challenges the assumption that the Qing relied upon local militias and fortification in the countryside to cut supplies and thereby exterminate the rebels. Rather, the Qing's hiring of hundreds of thousands of civilians to aid its operations became a pretext for generals and logistical leaders to misappropriate war funds, resulting in the high cost of the war. The mishandled demobilization of the militiamen then helped prolong the hostilities, when many dismissed troops turned into rebels themselves. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of late imperial and modern Chinese history, and of comparative empires and comparative warfare; the White Lotus war in China immediately preceded the Napoleonic wars in Europe"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 481-598) and index.
505 0 $aRebellion, 1796-1797 -- Quagmire, 1797-1798 -- Reform, 1799 -- Reversal, 1800 -- Finale, 1801-1805 -- Regulars and irregulars -- Cost.
611 27 $aWhite Lotus Rebellion (China : 1796-1804)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01355331
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yWhite Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1804.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yJiaqing, 1796-1820.
651 7 $aChina.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01206073
650 7 $aHISTORY / Asia / China.$2bisacsh
648 7 $a1796-1820$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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