The Fall of Imperial China
Wakeman, Frederic
ISBN 10: 0029336805 ISBN 13: 9780029336809
Published by Free Press, 1977
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Synopsis:
From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline.
From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."
About the Author: Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. was a scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Fall of Imperial China
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket