Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History Yangwen Zheng Professor of Chinese History at the University of Manchester Pevná vazba
Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era.Using extensive primary sources and newly released…
Specifikacia Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History Yangwen Zheng Professor of Chinese History at the University of Manchester Pevná vazba
Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era.Using extensive primary sources and newly released photographs, this book introduces students and junior researchers to scholarship and debates in the field of Sinology and beyond. It will enable the reader to understand the relevant issues, navigate through the maze of academic literature, and undertake independent research for essays and dissertations. Ten Lessons also points out gaps and weak points in existing scholarship, in order to encourage future post-graduate studies.Beginning with Anglo-Chinese trade on the eve of the First Opium War, it goes on to chart the story of China through more than a century of reform, rebellion, war and revolution by examining not just major events and history