Making China Modern
Making China Modern "Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China." --William C. But China…
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Making China Modern
"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China." --William C. But China has a long history of creative adaptation. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng Xiaoping and to recent changes in economic policy.
Then, as the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion ripped the country apart, China found itself verging on free fall. In the eighteenth century, the Qing Empire dominated a third of the world's population. More recently, after Mao, China managed a surprising recovery, rapidly undergoing profound economic and social change.
A dynamic story of crisis and recovery, failure and triumph, Making China Modern explores the versatility and resourcefulness that guaranteed China's survival, powered its rise, and