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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 722 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the first of the two final volumes of The Cambridge History of China, which describe the efforts of the People's Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regime's first sixteen years (1949-65). Part I chronicles the attempt to adapt the Soviet model of development to China, and Part II covers the subsequent efforts of China's...
22) China: a history
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xix, 578 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. What is distinctive about China in comparison with other civilizations? What have been the major changes and continuities in Chinese life...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 1095 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The authors...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xli, 981 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 1108 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Volume 15 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14 and Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese. It begins by analysing the development of Mao's thought since the Communist seizure of power, and, in doing so, attempts to understand why he launched...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea secrets in 1848. This thrilling narrative combines history, geography, and old-fashioned adventure.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 612 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, the author constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, he resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written history and extending through the twentieth century,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 504 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full implications of China's rapid march to modernity are not widely understood -- particularly,...
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : maps
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower in what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 361 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century, ' introducing readers to important but often overlooked...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxii, 259 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas how of to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this unique history and exploration of China through its imperial capital cities, Arthur Cotterell shows us the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions and technological genius which defined the imperial cities of China over two millennia.
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