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China : A New History by John K. Fairbank (Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674116704
ISBN-139780674116702
eBay Product ID (ePID)366973
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleChina : a New History
Number of Pages540 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsia / General, General, Asia / China
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorJohn K. Fairbank
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight38.6 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN91-044164
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal951
SynopsisBringing to bear 60 years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. He depicts a country ever-changing and yet constant in its effort to achieve a cohesive identity, an enormous and enormously complex nation perpetually balancing between the imperatives of force and the power of ideas. Here are the Chinese autocrats in their various times and guises, maintaining Confucian civility and order through - paradoxically - the perpetual threat of irrational imperial violence. Here is the intellectual class, revered for its wisdom and counsel and yet - as events from the Cultural Revolution to the massacre in Tiananmen Square demonstrate - eminently expendable. And here are China's farmers engaged in a never-ending backbreaking attempt to tame their temperamental countryside only to face repeated famine as China's agrarian-based economy fails to develop. At the centre of all stands the Chinese family, until recently the model for both obedience and tyranny in society at large.
LC Classification NumberDS735.F27 1992
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- 16 Aug, 2021
Well worth reading. well stated. full of good observations.
Very thoughtful. well researched, with well-stated powerful observations in most sentences. It dates from 1992 when China observations were rapidly changing, and has just a few logic jumps. Well worth reading and very readable.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
