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  • Translating the Occupation

    The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45

    de Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, Norman Smith ...
    From 1931 to 1945, as Japanese imperialism developed and spread throughout China, three regions experienced life under occupation: the puppet state of Manchukuo, East China, and North China. Each did so in a distinct manner, but making sense of experiences and decisions made during this crucial period has been an elusive goal for historians.Despite the enduring importance of the occupation to ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    de Orville Schell, John Delury ...
    Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Mao Zedong

    A Life

    de Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modern-day ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace

    The Chinese and Their Revolution

    de Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    de Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Mao

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Delia Davin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. He was a founder of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and for many ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • China in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    de Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies ... Leer más

    $9.49 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    de Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • A History of Korea

    de Kyung Moon Hwang ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Essential Histories
    Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Structured around episodic accounts, each chapter begins by discussing a defining moment in Korean history in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949

    de Peter Zarrow ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • What Remains

    Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

    de Tobie Meyer-Fong ...
    The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • China in Disintegration

    de James E. Sheridan ...
    After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD