Fragile Bulwark
The Qing State in Jinan during the Taiping and Nian Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15027956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Knorr, Daniel B Knorr (0000-0003-3165-371X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-83 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Late imperial China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-3236 • E-ISSN: 1086-3257 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/late.2022.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W4282019811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
On the north bank of the Daqing River in Qihe County, Shandong, the militia drilled and waited. There was no guarantee they would be called into action, but since they were practically the last line of defense between invading Taiping forces and Jinan-Shandong's capital-being unprepared was not an option. Granted, by this time they were guarding against only the remnants of a much larger army sent to invade North China after the Taiping had captured Nanjing and Yangzhou in early 1853. This army, led by Taiping general Li Kaifang, had swept westward around Shandong before looping back east toward Tianjin and Beijing, while a relief army, dispatched in 1854, marched up the Grand Canal through western Shandong, capturing Linqing, one of the province's main commercial centers. The second army disintegrated under Qing countersieges and attacks, and what remained of the first was fighting its way south and was currently holed up in a town a little over 100 kilometers from Jinan. 1 The diary of Jinan native Wang Zhonglin records that local elites who commanded the militia in Qihe gathered at night and practiced spiritwriting as they waited to join the fight against the long-haired southern rebels. One night, they were visited by a "night patrol spirit" (xunye shen), who told them that the deity Wenchang had heard their summons but was * I am deeply grateful to
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |