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China : a new history

Title: China : a new history / John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman.
Author: Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Goldman, Merle.

Description

xix, 546 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction: Approaches to Understanding China's History -- Pt. 1. Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy. 1. Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology. 2. The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism. 3. Reunification in the Buddhist Age. 4. China's Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song. 5. The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia. 6. Government in the Ming Dynasty. 7. The Qing Success Story -- Pt. 2. Late Imperial China, 1600-1911. 8. The Paradox of Growth without Development. 9. Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China. 10. Rebellion and Restoration. 11. Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power. 12. The Republican Revolution, 1901-1916 -- Pt. 3. The Republic of China, 1912-1949. 13. The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society. 14. The Nationalist Revolution and the Nanjing Government. 15. The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party. 16. China's War of Resistance, 1937-1945. 17. The Civil War and the Nationalists on Taiwan --
Pt. 4. The People's Republic of China. 18. Establishing Control of State and Countryside. 19. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960. 20. The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 21. The Post-Mao Reform Era / Merle Goldman -- Epilogue: China at the Close of the Century / Merle Goldman.

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98009474

OCLC

ocm38257996

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Columbia University Libraries