2000, ISBN: 9780198700692

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954. 1st Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Text/NEW & Bright. 1954 First Edition, 3rd Printing of 1965. Green linen, silve… Mehr…

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954. 1st Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Text/NEW & Bright. 1954 First Edition, 3rd Printing of 1965. Green linen, silver embossed boards/NF w/trace discoloration/NF. DJ/Good; Strong & intact w/edge wear & discoloration & water splash to lower back. Prize socio-economic political review of modern Chinese historical burdens & misgivings of the past --- all much alive. This scholarly study spans horrors known by over 3 generations of concerted Drug Wars of 1839 & 1842 from Britain against China still remembered. The British so freely consumed on their insatiable addiction for China's teas & porcelain that it threatened their silver on-hand as the Chinese had no interest in English goods. The British government (using it's East Indian Company), cooperating w/British merchants (corruption, hired?), smuggles so much India grown opium into China that by 1839, opium "sales" to China actually paid for the entire tea trade silver had drained! Consequent rise of "opium dens" & social costs led to the Boxer Rebellion, the 1841 cessation of Hong Kong (expanded 1898 to include the Kowloon Peninsula & New Territory, as a 99-year lease to Britain), the fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1639-1912), and rise of the Kuomingtang (retreated to Taiwan after the 1950 adoption of Communism of the Mainland under Mao Tse-tung) gives an in sight to issues of modern China's relationships w/Russia via Communism, and, given a now weak Britain, transfer both suspicions & revenge to British colonized USA. 294 pgs, 28 chapters w/translations of key documents, 28 chapters, 7 parts: I, The Problem & It's Background; II, Recognition of China's Need to Know the West, 1839-1860; III, The Desire for Western Technology, 1861-1870; IV, Efforts at Self-Strengthening, 1871-1896; V, Reform Movement Through 1900; VI, Reform & Revolution, 1901-1912; and VII, Ideological Ferment & the May Fourth Movement, 1912-1923, followed by Postface: A Further Approach to the Problem, & Index., Harvard University Press, 1954, 3.25, Paperback / softback. New. A study of China from the 1800s. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the 20th-century, and its emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolution of 1949. Examining economic growth, it offers an account of the Tiananmen Incident., 6<

2003, ISBN: 9780198700692

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Oxford University Press], This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the… Mehr…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Oxford University Press], This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolution of 1949. This new edition examines economic growth, updates Chinese foreign policy, provides a revised account of the Tiananmen Incident, and brings the chronology completely up to date., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 574, [GW: 807g], 2 Revised edition, Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

2003, ISBN: 0198700695

[EAN: 9780198700692], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Oxford University Press], HISTORY - GENERAL ASIA CHINA WORLD LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES LINGUISTICS, A study of China from the 1800s. It fo… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198700692], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Oxford University Press], HISTORY - GENERAL ASIA CHINA WORLD LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES LINGUISTICS, A study of China from the 1800s. It focuses on China s problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the 20th-century, and its emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolut., Books<

2000, ISBN: 9780198700692

Rebellions and Revolutions China from the 1800s to 2000 Paperback New Books, Oxford University Press