CHANG HSI AND THE TREATY OF NANKING CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A.CHANG HSI, AUTHOR OF THE DIARY, FU-I JIH-CHI AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE SITUATION IN B.THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DIARY AND ITS OUTSTANDING POINTS CHAPTER 2 ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE FU-I JIH CHI APPENDIX A CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEGOTIATIONS OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES NOTES NEW LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF THE TAIPING REBELLION PREFACE INTRODUCTION I.HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF THE TAIPING REBELLION II.A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE WORKS OF THE TAIPING HISTORIANS 1.CHIEN YU-WEN 2.HSIEH HSING-YAO 3.LO ERH-KANG 4.KUO T'ING 5.P'ENG TSE 6.HSIAO I-SHAN 7.OTHER HISTORIANS' WORK ON THE PERIOD 8.JAPANESE WORKS 9.ENGLISH SOURCES 10.FRENCH AND GERMAN SOURCES 11.RUSSIAN SOURCE ��.NEW LIGHT ON A FEW KNOTTY PROBLEMS 1.THE PROBLEM OF HUNG TA-CH'��AN 2.THE PROBLEM OF TAIPING CONNECTIONS WITH SECRET SOCIETIES 3.THE PROBLEM OF CH'IEN CHIANG AND WANG T'AO ��.THE NATURE, CAUSES, AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE REBELLION 1.ITS NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE 2.THE CAUSES OF THE TAIPING REBELLION 3.THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TAIPING REBELLION V.NEW LIGHT ON THE MILITARY DEVELOPMENT 1.THE VICTORIOUS PERIOD FROM 1851 TO 2.REASONS FOR THE VICTORIES 3.THE DECLINING PERIOD, 1856 4.REASONS FOR THE FAILURE OF THE TAIPINGS ��.NEW LIGHT ON THE TAIPING RELIGION AND CALENDAR 1.THE TAIPING RELIGION 2.THE TAIPING CALENDAR VII.NEW LIGHT ON TAIPING POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS 1.POLITICAL SYSTEM 2.ECONOMIC SYSTEM 3.THE POSITION OF WOMEN