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The great Chinese revolution, 1800-1985
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John King Fairbank |
Copied from "Amazon"
Editorial Reviews
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A masterful account of China's long and turbulent quest for modernity."-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.A"A fresh and significant work of synthesis: it is fi… |
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Shanghai =
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Shanghai bo wu guan |
Very interesting read on a very interesting city. |
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China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi
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J. O. P. Bland,J. O. P. Bland,John Otway Percy Bland,Edmund Trelawny Backhouse,Derek Sandhaus |
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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The Opium War, 1840-1842
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Peter Ward Fay |
A history of opium usage in China, starting with the East India Company in Calcutta, and its monopoly over the opium trade. The great trading companies of Canton smuggled opium into mainland China de… |
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The Chinese Opium Wars
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Jack Beeching |
"Jack Beeching's enlightening account of a notorious epoch in nineteenth-century imperialism sets the background for China's view of the West today. In the 1820s British merchants were under pressure… |
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Modern China
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Graham Hutchings |
"In Modern China Graham Hutchings offers a timely and useful reference guide to the people, places, ideas, and events crucial to an understanding of this rising power. The focus is on society and pol… |
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Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927
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Ryan Dunch |
"In this examination of Chinese Protestants and their place in the history of modern China, Ryan Dunch focuses on the Fuzhou area of southeast China from the mid-nineteenth century until 1927, when a… |
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