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China, a new history, John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

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China, a new history, John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-528) and indexes

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illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

China

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

61821937

Responsibility statement

John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

Sub title

a new history

Summary

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come

Table Of Contents

Introduction. Approaches to understanding China's history -- Pt. 1. Rise and decline of the imperial autocracy -- 1. Origins : the discoveries of archaeology -- 2. The first unification : imperial Confucianism -- 3. Reunification in the Buddhist age -- 4. China's greatest age : northern and southern Song -- 5. The paradox of Song China and inner Asia -- 6. Government in the Ming dynasty -- 7. The Qing success story -- Pt. 2. Late imperial China -- 8. The paradox of growth without development -- 9. Frontier unrest and the opening of China -- 10. Rebellion and restoration -- 11. Early modernization and the decline of Qing power -- 12. The republican revolution, 1901-1916 -- Pt. 3. The Republic of China, 1912-1949 -- 13. The quest for a Chinese civil society -- 14. The nationalist revolution and the Nanjing government -- 15. The second coming of the Chinese Communist Party -- 16. China's War of Resistance, 1937-1945 -- 17. The civil war and the nationalists on Taiwan -- Pt. 4. The People's Republic of China -- 18. Establishing control of state and countryside -- 19. The great leap forward, 1958-1960 -- 20. The cultural revolution, 1966-1976 -- 21. The post-Mao reform era / by Merle Goldman -- Epilogue. China at the start of the twenty-first century / by Merle Goldman

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