Author:
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
Edition Statement:2nd enl. ed.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxix, 560 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Origins: the discoveries of archaeology -- The first unification: imperial Confucianism -- Reunification in the Buddhist age -- China's greatest age: Northern and Southern Song -- The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia -- Government in the Ming Dynasty -- The Qing success story -- The paradox of growth without development -- Frontier unrest and the opening of China -- Rebellion and restoration -- Early modernization and the decline of Qing power -- The republican revolution, 1901-1916 -- The quest for a Chinese civil society -- The Nationalist revolution and the Nanjing government -- The second coming of the Chinese Communist party -- China's war of resistance, 1937-1945 -- The civil war and the nationalists on Taiwan -- Establishing control of state and countryside -- The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 -- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- The post-Mao reform era.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-528) and indexes.
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