John King Fairbank

Merle Goldman

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. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

China

Tradition and Transformation

Denis Crispin Twitchett

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

The Cambridge History of China

Benjamin Isadore Schwartz

Conrad Brandt

A Documentary History of Chinese Communism

Traditional China's Foreign Relations

The Chinese World Order

The late Harvard scholar John King Fairbank applies sixty years of research, travel, and teaching to this richly detialed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. A concise, comprehensive, and authoritative work that is without parallel. Illustrated.

A New History

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer

A History of East Asian Civilization: East Asia: The modern transformation

Sui and T'ang China, 589-906

Albert Feuerwerker

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period

Ssu-yü Teng

A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923

China's Response to the West

Research Guide

Michael Loewe

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220

America’s top China–watcher, the renowned pandit of modern Chinese history, here provides an unrivaled overview of revolutionary China and Chinese–American relations. His reviews and critical commentary scrutinize our always fascinated, often puzzled attitude toward this newly emergent superpower. John Fairbank distinguishes two major motifs in recent Chinese–American connections: the American expectation of highly profitable trade and investment, which so far have not materialized, and the deep–rooted missionary impulse to give the Chinese the best of our culture, which includes our efforts to promote human rights. The possibility of grafting our ideas of individual endeavor and God–given prerogatives onto two thousand years of Confucianism with its emphasis on duty and collective harmony seems remote. In contrast, the outlook for mutually enriching economic dealings is much brighter. Yet Fairbank cautions that we are dealing with a huge and disoriented nation struggling to enter the modern world with its own cultural identity intact, and (at least in the current period) with its Communist Party in power. Confucian tenets still prevail: theory and practice are a unity policies are a form of conduct manifesting one’s character, and attacks on policy equal attacks on the ruling party. These writings concern China in the mind’s eye of America—as it is interpreted though the works of American merchants, diplomats, missionaries, and reporters observing China’s travail of revolution. For generalist, scholar, and sage alike, China Watch offers many insights.

China Watch

Frederick W. Mote

Volumes Seven and Eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), providing the largest and most detailed account in any language. Summarizing all modern research, Volume Eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion. Although written by specialists, these volumes intend to explain and describe the Ming period to general readers without a specialized knowledge of Chinese history, as well as scholars and students.

Herbert Franke

Denis C. Twitchett

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368

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