China: A New History, Enlarged Edition (Enlarged)
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Title: China: A New History, Enlarged Edition (Enlarged) Author: Fairbank, John King ISBN: 9780674116733 Publisher: Belknap Press Published: 1998 Binding: Book Language: English Publisher Description: Recognized for decades as the West's doyen on China, John King Fairbank here offers the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast, ancient civilization. Fairbank's masterwork, China: A New History is without parallel as a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. Bringing to bear sixty years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a richly detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. With a deft hand, 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 o

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