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• Title:The search for modern China / Jonathan D. Spence.
  
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• Author/Creator:Spence, Jonathan D.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS754 .S65 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS754 .S65 2013
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
  China--History--20th century.
  China--History--21st century.
  
• Edition:Third Edition.
  
• Description:xxxiii, 707, A136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from the author's introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th century. Strong on social and political history, as well as Chinese culture and its intersections with politics, this work is a longstanding leader in the survey course on modern China.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393934519 (pbk.)
  0393934519 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:The late Ming
  The Manchu conquest
  Kangxi's consolidation
  Yongzheng's authority
  Chinese society and the reign of Qianlong
  China and the eighteenth-century world
  The first clash with the West
  The crisis within
  Restoration through reform
  New tensions in the late Qing
  The end of the dynasty
  The new republic
  A road is made
  The fractured alliance
  The Guomindang in power
  Communist survival
  World War II
  The fall of the Guomindang state
  The birth of the People's Republic
  Planning the new society
  Deepening the revolution
  Cultural revolution
  Reopening the doors
  Redefining revolution
  Levels of power
  Testing the limits
  Century's end
  Breakthrough?