Sources of Chinese Tradition, Second Edition, Volume Two

New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Volume Two only. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. "New BooK" price sticker (A $53.00) on the jacket's rear panel. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO highlighting, underlining or margin notes. NO foxing. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the publisher: "For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zeminera China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary-who edited the first edition in 1960-and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day. Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question. Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century; Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform; Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society; The nationalist revolution-including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;The communist revolution-with central writings by Mao Zedong;Works from contemporary China-featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng. With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations." GoodReads rating: 4.18 stars. Second Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xx, 636pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …