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Focusing on China during the last twenty-five years, the author illuminates the country's traditions, customs, political structure, and economy.
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As useful and timely as when it first appeared in 1948. Written by America's foremost China scholar, John Fairbank, the book addresses a popular, not the academic, audience. It offers a sweeping view of the Chinese polity from ancient times up to the recent, convoluted period of Western contact, spiced by the wit and insight into detail of a geographer who drew the maps himself...Yet the book offers much to the specialist as well as the layman. To the historian, a state-of-the-art review of the latest historical analysis of modern china...To the student, a cogent guide to the field...For the diplomat and businessman, the work explores that most intangible but also most influential area of human feeling between the two countries that has launched ventures and derailed them.
An indispensable book for thoughtful people.
The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning.
Fairbank provides a miraculously concise account of Chinese civilization from its foundations to the present day...Maps, photographs, and an 80-page bibliography make this an invaluable reference work.
İFairbank's¨ ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles.
[Fairbank's] ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles.
About the Author
John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0674924363
- ISBN 13 9780674924369
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages576
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Softcover. Condition: Good. For two generations scholars and general readers have looked to John King Fairbank?s The United States and China for knowledge and insights about China. In this fourth edition, enlarged, he includes a new preface and an epilogue that brings the book up to date through the events of 1982. He has also updated the vast bibliography and both indexes. This book stands almost alone as a history of China, an analysis of Chinese society, and an account of Sino?American relations, all in brief compass.The older portions of the book still sparkle, and they have been refined by the latest scholarship and the author?s own observations in the People?s Republic of China. And many photographs, especially chosen by John and Wilma Fairbank, show a changing land and its inhabitants. Seller Inventory # AMPLE0674924363
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