by John King Fairbank; Merle Goldman Print book: French . Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology, 2.
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Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. It remains a masterwork without parallel. China : a new history by Fairbank, John K. Publication date 1992 Publisher Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard U.P. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come. Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism, Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World.
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It hopes to condense hundreds of years of dynastic struggle, economic development, and external strife into a few hundred pages. 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. This book is hard to understand coming from someone that knows nothing about China.
The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the 21st Century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. Before I get into the strengths and features of this book let me first do away with the negative reviews. It does so very poorly. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition [John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman]. Lots of helpful art work also to help us along.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020, Book obviously written by a "highbrow" not an easy read, Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2018. If you are interested in the history of the earlier dynasties, look elsewhere. : Langara College 3. Selected Stories (Norton Library (Paperback)) (N848), The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (Third Edition), China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire, (10,000 BCE - 1799 CE), Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Vol.
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.
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China: A New History is literally a text book. Clear but interesting writing.
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. She wraps up the post-Mao events, economical, political, societal, and foreign interactions. Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018. John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2013. The Paradox of Growth without Development, 9. Please try again. It's sad and infantile that the whole book was given a negative review just because of that. It remains a masterwork without parallel. Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides’ Trap? The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia, 8. Think of this book as two in one: a look at the long and intricate history of the imperial dynasties, and an exploration of post-dynastic national development. Fairbank has command of a huge subject and is able to present it to the student (me) in a way that keeps us turning the pages. Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2018.
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She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
The additional chapters written by Merle Goldman, Chapter 21 on The Post-Mao Reform era as well as the Epilogue, add sixty pages of material to bring to book up to date to the year 2006. Just kind of rushes through everything until the Tang and Song dynasties.
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2011. and over 8 million other books are available for, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. In that the book does delivers the promises. It remains a masterwork without parallel. This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Includes index Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-11-10 19:58:08 … The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society, 14. I give China: A New History credit for trying to do it all. 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.
Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. Maybe this is for people who already know a little about China's history. It's what college students are often assigned as their base resource for a class likely to be called "China Studies 101" or "Chinese History 101". Well worth having for anyone interested in Chinese history, whether modern or older.
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Histoire de la Chine : des origines à nos jours. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Otherwise, well-written and enjoyable. China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition. Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power, Part three The Republic of China, 1912–1949, 13. Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK, Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost, Dispatch to this address when you check out.
There's a problem loading this menu right now. Histoire de la Chine : des origines à nos jours: 3. 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 civilisation. Anyway, let me finally touch upon the strengths of this book by making a list.
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China’s Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song, 5.
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It hopes to condense hundreds of years of dynastic struggle, economic development, and external strife into a few hundred pages. The entire history of China prior to the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) is crammed into 142 pages. 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. It turns out, however, to be a brand new book with just a slight sign of wearing on the outside. The book is massive but a short paragraph in the introduction has made a subset of readers somehow disregard the whole book because of it. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book.
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The New Manual lists and describes published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from pre-history to the twenty-first century, as well as selected up-to-date scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. It's the kind of thing that professors assign, but students rarely read all the way through.
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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.
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