Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China

by Lawrence R. Sullivan

When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) assumed power in October 1949 China was one of the poorest nations in the world and so weak it had been conquered in the late 1930s and early 1940s by its neighbor Japan, a country one-10th its size. More than five decades later, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is an emerging economic, political, and major military power with the world's fastest growing economy and largest population (1.35 billion in 2015)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442264683
• ISBN13: 9781442264687
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"