The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History

by R. Keith Schoppa

China, the world's oldest and most populous state, remains an enigma to most people in the West, even at a time when that country is playing an increasingly prominent role on the international stage. At the heart of modern Chinese history have been the efforts of the Chinese people to transform their polity into a modern nation state, the Confucian orthodoxy into an ideology that can help direct that process, and an agrarian economy into an industrial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112769
• ISBN13: 9780231112765
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher