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The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985

5 reviews
John King Fairbank

Picador, 1988

Fairbank's Crowning Glory
No decent individual who wants to talk about China, or wants to understand Chinese history in the last 150 years, can skip anything written by Fairbank. If there's anybody who can claim to be 'the' authority on China, Fairbank would be the one. And this work is his crowning glory, culmunating in a tour de force after research in this field for more than half a century. This work sees China's ...

East Asia: The Great Tradition

1 review
Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank

Houghton, Mifflin, 1972

Splendid overview of East Asian history
This is the first of 3 interrelated historical surveys of East Asia whose titles are often confused --- the third being a condensation of the material first two by about a half: (1) East Asia: The Great Tradition (from 1960) (2) East Asia: The Modern Transformation (from 1965) (3) East Asia: Tradition and Transformation (from 1975) What is common to all of them, of course, is the ...

China's Response to the West

2 reviews
John K. Fairbank, Ssu-yu Teng

Harvard University Press, 1954

The best history book I've ever read
If you want to understand how China could fall from being the worlds most powerful nation to a third rate power in the 1930's this is the book. It just provides the documents, you can do your own analysis. Read official correspondence from the forbidden city to the Queen of England, letters between ministers demonstrating just how poorly the Chinese understood the importance of technology and ...

East Asia: tradition and transformation

5 reviews
John King Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, ...

Houghton Mifflin, 1973

The Fruits of Pinyin
Having had my own problems with pinyin, I understand J Barry's frustration when he says: "This is a fine book, one I have assigned for years in my introductory classes along with deBary's Sources of Chinese Tradition Vol. 1. Now, however,there is a new edition of Sources using the newer pinyin romanization system. Reischauer still uses the old Wade-Giles system. So I can't assign it any longer - ...

Chinese Ways in Warfare (Harvard East Asian Series)

2 reviews

Harvard University Press, 1974

important topic makes this required reading
works like this fill in important background overlooked in the newspaper headlines. I hope Harvard will consider reprinting (or maybe even revising) this valuable work.

China : A New History

20 reviews
John K. Fairbank

Harvard University Press, 1994

Great
This book is a great overview of Chinese history. While true that Spence's Volume has more artistic qualities this volume is mor than sufficient for the student of history. Clear and concise, this book describes the major events of Chinese history while integrating a plethora of supplemental and recent scholarship. Anyone interested in diving further into Chinese history can use Fairbank and ...

Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

20 reviews
Edgar Snow

Grove Press, 1994

An excellent look at the Chinese Civil War
For the last few decades, we Americans have had an extremely negative view of the Chinese Communist Party, and especially such now-mythical forefathers as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, whose drastic excesses and failures have led to their demonisation in Western society as mere liars, thugs, and brutish dictators. But yet, in the '30s and '40s, such men managed to overcome both the tanks and rifles ...

The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 12: Republican China, 1912-1949, Part 1

2 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1983

wonderful work
Remarkable scholarship is displayed here, entirely worthy of the Cambridge tradition. This is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand modern China. Ian Ruxton, editor of The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06), Vol. 1 and The Semi-Official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China (1895-1906), both available on amazon.

East Asia: The Modern Transformation

1 review
John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, ...

C.E. Tuttle, 1965

East Asian history of the modern period
A History of East Asian Civilization, Volumes One and Two: (1) East Asia: The Great Tradition (1960). (2) East Asia: The Modern Transformation (1965).*** (3) East Asia: Tradition and Transformation (1978). A condensation, rather then a continuation, of (1) and (2). The SECOND volume of the series, East Asia: The Modern Transformation, was designed as a continuation of East Asia: The ...

The United States and China (The American foreign policy library)

1 review
John King Fairbank

Harvard University Press, 1962

International relations, sweet and sour
In an era where America is the last remaining superpower, it is sometimes easy to feel that there are no real threats left in the world to American security (apart from the occasional terrorist, that is); it is easy to slip into a complacency a la the British Empire in thinking itself impregnable due to its relative insularity from the rest of the world (truly, for a variety of reasons, Canada ...

China Watch

1 review
John King Fairbank

Harvard University Press, 1987

A potpourri of commentary
John King Fairbank was perhaps the most distinguished American China scholar of the 20th century. This is a collection of his journalistic writings and essays in the 1970s and 1980s. Among the topics he writes about are "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, Douglas MacArthur, missionaries, Mao's cultural revolution, American perceptions of China, and a review of John Hersey's, "The Call," which is a favorite ...

The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 1980

Serious history
As with other volumes in this series, the writing is dry and monotonous. The editors stick with Wade-Giles for Chinese translation, rather than going with Pinyin - an extraordinary gaff. Nevertheless, the volume is an important additon to the serious student of Chinese history's library.

Cambridge History of China

Cambridge Univ Pr (Sd), 2009

This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government within China. Contributors to this volume study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, ...

Biology, Brains, and Behavior : The Evolution of Human Development (Advanced Seminar Series, The School of ...
Sue Taylor Parker;Jonas Langer;Michael L. McKinney;C.G. Anderson ;Elizabeth Bates;Christoper Boehm;S.E. Cates;Terrence Deacon ;Jeffrey Elman ;Lynn Fairbanks;John Gittleman ;Patricia Marks Greenfield;H.-K. Luh;Ashley Maynard;Emily Schmidtling;Brian Shea

SAR Press, 2000

An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emeging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behaviorial ontogeny of primates, the authors--leading scholars of biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience--pose questions that probe our fundamental understanding of the human species. The authors postulate answers that ...

The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 2

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 1986

Serious history
As with other volumes in this series, the writing is dry and monotonous. The editors stick with Wade-Giles for Chinese translation, rather than going with Pinyin - an extraordinary gaff. Nevertheless, the volume is an important additon to the serious student of Chinese history's library.

America's China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance (Harvard Studies in ...

Harvard University Asia Center, 1986

This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations. The work begins with an Introduction by John K. Fairbank, then moves on ...

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