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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Illustrated History
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China
during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations,
from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the
present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand
this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the
'Chinese century', introducing readers to important but often
overlooked events in China's past, such as the bloody Taiping Civil
War (1850-1864), which had a death toll far higher than the roughly
contemporaneous American Civil War. It also helps readers see more
familiar landmarks in Chinese history in new ways, such as the
Opium War (1839-1842), the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to
power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen
protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. This is one of the first
major efforts - and in many ways the most ambitious to date - to
come to terms with the broad sweep of modern Chinese history,
taking readers from the origins of modern China right up through
the dramatic events of the last few years (the Beijing Games, the
financial crisis, and China's rise to global economic pre-eminence)
which have so fundamentally altered Western views of China and
China's place in the world.
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