Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present

Jonathan Fenby

816 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enorm...

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