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China : A New History

The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period. 60 photos.

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  • "China : A New History"
  • "China : a new history"
  • "China : A new history"
  • "Zhong guo xin shi"
  • "Zhongguo xin shi"
  • "China"
  • "China"@ja
  • "费正清论中国"
  • "中国新史"
  • "Fei zheng qing lun zhong guo"
  • "Chung-kuo hsin shih"
  • "Fei Zheng-qing lun Zhong-guo"
  • "中國新史"

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  • "The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period. 60 photos."@en
  • "Panorama de l'histoire générale de la Chine, des cultures paléolithiques au massacre de Tienanmen en 1989. Son histoire sociale, intellectuelle et politique est mise en lumière."
  • "Bringing to bear sixty years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a richly detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. With a deft hand, 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 center of all stands the Chinese family, until recently the model for both obedience and tyranny in society at large."
  • "John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come. (Midwest)."
  • "Fairbank traces the growth of a civilization that could embrace so many contradictions and disruptions and yet retain a strong sense of its identity. Following China's ambivalent relations with the West and with the forces of modernization, he identifies, even in the great leap forward signaled by the Communist Revolution, the assumptions that have informed Chinese society for thousands of years."
  • "Recognized for decades as the West's doyen on China, John King Fairbank here offers the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast, ancient civilization. Fairbank's masterwork, China: A New History is without parallel as a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia."
  • "John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come."
  • "From the influences of Buddhism through the flowering of Song China to the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, this richly illustrated history unfolds in the wise yet often unconventional style that is quintessentially Fairbank: informal, witty, magisterial, and clear. Informed by the most recent scholarly research, this delicately nuanced and broadly interpretive introduction to the Chinese people and their past will enlighten both the novice and the seasoned China-watcher."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Surveys"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Přehledy"

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  • "费正清论中国 : 中国新史"
  • "Fei Zheng Qing Lun Zhong Guo : Zhong guo xin shi = China : A new history"
  • "China : A new history"
  • "Histoire de la Chine : des origines à nos jours"
  • "Fei zheng qing lun zhong guo : zhong guo xin shi"
  • "Sin Chunggusa"
  • "China : A New History"@en
  • "Histoire de la Chine des origines à nos jours"
  • "Dějiny Číny"
  • "China : a new history"
  • "China : a new history"@en
  • "Chūgoku no rekishi"@ja
  • "費正清論中國 : 中國新史"
  • "費正清論中國 : 中國新史 = China : A new history"
  • "Fei Zhengqing lun Zhongguo : Zhongguo xin shi"
  • "China, una nueva historia"
  • "費正淸論中國 : 中國新史"
  • "China : una nueva historia"
  • "中国の歴史 : 古代から現代まで"
  • "China : una nueva historia"@es
  • "Fei Cheng-chìng lun Chung-kuo : Chung-kuo hsin shih"
  • "新中國史"
  • "China una nueva historia"
  • "China a new history"@en
  • "China a new history"
  • "Chūgoku no rekishi : kodai kara gendai made"
  • "Fei zheng qing lun zhong guo : Zhong guo xin shi"

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