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Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present
by Fenby, Jonathan
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Nice copy
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About This Item
London: Harper Collins, 2008. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xlvii + 763pp., colour & b/w plates, maps & plans, notes, appends., bibliog., index, "No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enormous revolts, shifting social power patterns, republican revolutionaries, Western incursions to "split the Chinese melon" and a disastrous defeat by Japan. The presence of predatory foreigners has often been blamed for China's troubles, but the much greater cause came from within China itself. In the early twentieth century, the empire was succeeded by warlordism on a massive scale, internal divisions, incompetent rule, savage fighting between the government and the Communists, and a fourteen-year invasion from Japan
Synopsis
"Published in Great Britain as The Penguin history of modern China in 2008 by the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 715-735) and index.
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- Title
- Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present
- Author
- Fenby, Jonathan
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice copy
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- octavo
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