Reflects the most recent scholarship throughout the text.
The Third Edition uses the theme of identities--of the nation itself and of the Chinese people--to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the early twenty-first century.
For courses on Modern Chinese History, Politics, Society, and Culture; a supplement for courses on East Asian civilization, World History and Civilization. Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history which...
... Report from Xunwu, trans., Roger R. Thompson (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990), p. 11. 11 The table is from Mao, Report from Xunwu, p. 122. Copyright (c) 1990 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University ...
Every chapter includes a blend of readingse"from scholarly and popular sources, long and short readings, and 40 percent new to this edition. About one-fourth of the readings are classics, while...