Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century
by David Pong
This is a study of China's attempt to meet the challenges of the nineteenth century. Using the career of Shen Pao-chen as a looking glass, Professor Pong examines the political awakening of a small coterie of Ching dynasty officials as they responded to dynastic decline and the ever-growing threat of Western encroachment on China. Driven by a deep sense of crisis, they dedicated themselves to "self-strengthening," a two-pronged effort to restore the vitality of the Ching dynasty and to protect it from further foreign inroads by adopting Western technology, especially military technology.
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Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century
February 13, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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0521531268 9780521531269
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