Highlights
Comprehensive Revision
The Second Edition includes a new final chapter covering economic, cultural, and political developments in China since 1989.
Also new to this edition are discussions of:
- The extension of imperial power to central Asia by eighteenth-century emperors
- Women’s literacy and education during the Qing dynasty
- The early development of Chinese nationalism
- Roots of Chinese communism and alternatives to Mao
- The domestic forces behind the Great Leap Forward and the seeds of the Cultural Revolution
- Renewed diversity in thought and culture over the last two decades
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