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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping

Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping

Mühlhahn, Klaus

Paperback

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 0674248317
ISBN13: 9780674248311
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 736
Weight: 1.94
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.
--William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?

It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng Xiaoping and to recent changes in economic policy. But China has a long history of creative adaptation. In the eighteenth century, the Qing Empire dominated a third of the world's population. Then, as the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion ripped the country apart, China found itself verging on free fall. More recently, after Mao, China managed a surprising recovery, rapidly undergoing profound economic and social change. A dynamic story of crisis and recovery, failure and triumph, Making China Modern explores the versatility and resourcefulness that guaranteed China's survival, powered its rise, and will determine its future.

Chronicles reforms, revolutions, and wars through the lens of institutions, often rebutting Western impressions.

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