The Britannica Guide to Modern China: A Comprehensive Introduction to the World's New Economic Giant

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ISBN 10: 0762433671 / ISBN 13: 9780762433674

Published by Running Pr Book Pub, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A., 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Britannica Guide to Modern China: A Comprehensive Introduction to the World's New Economic Giant
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762433671
• ISBN 13: 9780762433674
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

An in-depth and authoritative account of China, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to the people, and their culture and history spanning 3,500 years of civilization. It also gives a thorough picture of the rise of modern China as a superpower and what that means for the rest of the world.

About the Author

Jonathan Mirsky has taught Chinese history and Literature at Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College. From 1993 to 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times (London) based in Hong Kong. He has also written for The Observer, The Economist, and The Independent. He is a regular writer for The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The International Herald Tribune, and The Spectator. In 1989 Dr Mirsky was named British newspapers' International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Tiananmen uprising. In 1999 he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard. In 2002 he was the I.F.Stone Fellow in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.