FENBY Jonathan

Modern China : the fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present / Jonathan Fenby. - New York : Harper Collins, 2008 - xlvi, 763 pages: illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm.

Published in Great Britain as: The Penguin history of modern China, London : Penguin, 2008

Chronological history of China from the period of European incursions, through internal unrest and successive revolutions, war with Japan, the rise of gthe Communists, and most recently China's dramatic economic revival, and concluding with China under the leadership of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Notes, bibliography, appendices, index.

9780061661167 (hbk.) : 32.95 USD


CHINA--MODERN HISTORY
CHINA--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT