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  • Perspectives On A Changing China

    Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

    by Joshua Fogel, William T. Rowe ...
    This collection of essays represents current research in modern (post-1800) Chinese history. All contributors are former students of Professor C. Martin Wilbur, one of the great names in the China field over the past forty years, who recently retired from a long tenure as modern Chinese historian at Columbia University. While diverse in their subje ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Reliving the Past

    The Worlds of Social History

    by Olivier Zunz, Charles Tilly, David William Cohen, David William Cohen, William B. Taylor, William T. Rowe ...
    Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need for a social history ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China's Last Empire

    The Great Qing

    by William T. Rowe, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 6 - History of Imperial China
    In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hankow

    Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889

    by William T. Rowe ...
    This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to the hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds. The second volume, Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895, focuses on the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Ming China, 1368–1644

    A Concise History of a Resilient Empire

    by John W. Dardess ...
    This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • China: Its History and Culture

    by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis ...
    “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers UniversityNewly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Invention of China

    by Bill Hayton ...
    "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this dayChina’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Vietnam

    Rising Dragon

    by Bill Hayton ...
    An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian powerThe eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Imperial China

    The Social Origins of State Development

    by Yuhua Wang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A History of Korea

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of China

    by Morris Rossabi ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the World
    Capturing China’s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story—peasants, women, merchants, and artisans.Offers a complete political, economic, social, and cultural history of China, covering ... Read more

    $39.50 USD