China: A New History: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition - Softcover

JK Fairbank; Merle Goldman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674018281 ISBN 13: 9780674018280

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Will serve for decades to come as a standard reference and textbook.--Robert L. Worden "Washington Post Book World "

Manages to tell its sprawling, turbulent, 4,000-year story in a single volume without either losing clarity or oversimplifying its subject...Rich and fascinating.--Arnold R. Isaacs "San Francisco Chronicle "

About the Author:

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University. Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0674018281
• ISBN 13: 9780674018280
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 472