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Wealth and Power - China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Wealth and Power - China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to
pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this
erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current
phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of
failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism
of China today? By examining the lives of eleven influential
officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions
helped create modern China, Wealth and Power addresses these
questions. This fascinating survey moves from the lead-up to the
first Opium War through to contemporary opposition to single-party
rule. Along the way, we meet titans of Chinese history,
intellectuals and political figures. By unwrapping the intellectual
antecedents of today's resurgent China, Orville Schell and John
Delury supply much-needed insight into the country's tortured
progression from nineteenth-century decline to twenty-first-century
boom. By looking backward into the past to understand forces at
work for hundreds of years, they help us understand China today and
the future that this singular country is helping shape for all of
us.
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