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• Title:The search for modern China : a documentary collection / edited by Janet Chen, Pei-Kai Cheng, and Michael Lestz, with Jonathan D. Spence.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Chen, Janet Y., 1972- editor.
  Cheng, Pei-kai, editor.
  Lestz, Michael Elliot, editor.
  Spence, Jonathan D., contributor.
  Spence, Jonathan D. Search for modern China.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS753.86 .S33 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--Sources.
  China--History--20th century--Sources.
  China--History--21st century--Sources.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xxiv, 625 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"This rich gathering of primary-source documents puts students in direct contact with the major characters and events in modern Chinese history. Revised to reflect updates to The Search for Modern China, third edition, this outstanding collection displays a strong blend of social history (pieces dealing with everyday life, family, social networks, and culture) and political history (critical proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts). Many documents are translated into English for the first time and are available only in this book."--Book cover, page [four]
  
• Notes:Primary source reader may be used with new edition of textbook of the same name.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780393920857 (pbk.)
  0393920852 (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
  The Cultural Revolution
  Reopening the doors
  Redefining revolution
  Levels of power
  Testing the limits
  Century's end
  Breakthrough?