Original publication date
1992
Pages
xix; 546
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1992, c1998; Tenth printing, 2002
Physical description
xix, 546 p.; 23.4 cm
ISBN
0674116739 / 9780674116733
Language
Description
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.