China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

John King Fairbank Was The West's Doyen On China, And This Book Is The Full And Final Expression Of His Lifelong Engagement With This Vast Ancient Civilization. It Remains A Masterwork Without Parallel. The Distinguished Historian Merle Goldman Brings The Book Up To Date, Covering Reforms In The Post-mao Period Through The Early Years Of The Twenty-first Century, Including The Leadership Of Hu Jintao. She Also Provides An Epilogue Discussing The Changes In Contemporary China That Will Shape The Nation In The Years To Come. Introduction. Approaches To Understanding China's History -- Pt. 1. Rise And Decline Of The Imperial Autocracy -- 1. Origins : The Discoveries Of Archaeology -- 2. The First Unification : Imperial Confucianism -- 3. Reunification In The Buddhist Age -- 4. China's Greatest Age : Northern And Southern Song -- 5. The Paradox Of Song China And Inner Asia -- 6. Government In The Ming Dynasty -- 7. The Qing Success Story -- Pt. 2. Late Imperial China, 1600-1911 -- 8. The Paradox Of Growth Without Development -- 9. Frontier Unrest And The Opening Of China -- 10. Rebellion And Restoration -- 11. Early Modernization And The Decline Of Qing Power -- 12. The Republican Revolution, 1901-1916 -- Pt. 3. The Republic Of China, 1912-1949 -- 13. The Quest For A Chinese Civil Society -- 14. The Nationalist Revolution And The Nanjing Government -- 15. The Second Coming Of The Chinese Communist Party -- 16. China's War Of Resistance, 1937-1945 -- 17. The Civil War And The Nationalists On Taiwan -- Pt. 4. The People's Republic Of China -- 18. Establishing Control Of State And Countryside -- 19. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 -- 20. The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- 21. The Post-mao Reform Era / By Merle Goldman -- Epilogue. China At The Start Of The Twenty-first Century / By Merle Goldman. John King Fairbank And Merle Goldman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 473-528) And Indexes. Bringing to bear 60 years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. He depicts a country ever-changing and yet constant in its effort to achieve a cohesive identity, an enormous and enormously complex nation perpetually balancing between the imperatives of force and the power of ideas. Here are the Chinese autocrats in their various times and guises, maintaining Confucian civility and order through - paradoxically - the perpetual threat of irrational imperial violence. Here is the intellectual class, revered for its wisdom and counsel and yet - as events from the Cultural Revolution to the massacre in Tiananmen Square demonstrate - eminently expendable. And here are China's farmers engaged in a never-ending attempt to tame their countryside only to face repeated famine as China's agrarian-based economy fails to develop. At the centre of all stands the Chinese family, until recently the model for both obedience and tyranny in society at large A broad history of China, covering the period from the earliest archaeological records to the present. Updated by Merle Goldman from the original 1992 edition in order to include the reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period. 60 photos. This book remains a masterwork and is brought up to date by Merle Goldman, detailing the wide array of social, economic, cultural and political changes that have taken place in the last 20 years John King Fairbank And Merle Goldman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 459-519) And Indexes.