Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
New York : Random House, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 478 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
"Through a series of ... portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an impressive run of hyperdevelopment and wealth creation--culminating in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?"--Dust jacket flap.
Contents:
Wealth and power -- Humiliation : Wei Yuan -- Self-strengthening : Feng Guifen -- Western methods, Chinese core : Empress Dowager Cixi -- New citizen : Liang Qichao -- A sheet of loose sand : Sun Yat-sen -- New youth : Chen Duxiu -- Unification : Chiang Kai-shek -- Not a dinner party : Mao Zedong, part I -- Creative destruction : Mao Zedong, part II -- Black cat, white cat : Deng Xiaoping, part I -- Turmoil : Deng Xiaoping, part II -- Entering the world : Zhu Rongji -- No enemies, no hatred : Liu Xiaobo -- Rejuvenation.
Subjects:
China -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
China -- History -- 21st century -- Biography.
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
China -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
China -- History -- 21st century -- Biography.
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780679643470 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Asia China Sch | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Asia China Sch | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-456) and index.