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John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

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Manages to tell its sprawling, turbulent, 4,000-year story in a single volume without either losing clarity or oversimplifying its subject...Rich and fascinating. -- Arnold R. Isaacs * San Francisco Chronicle *
Will serve for decades to come as a standard reference and textbook. -- Robert L. Worden * Washington Post Book World *

China A New History 2e Enlarged edition OISC

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    A Paperback / softback by John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 1 April 2006
      ISBN-13 9780674018280
      978-0674018280
      ISBN-10 0674018281
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

      Trade Review
      Manages to tell its sprawling, turbulent, 4,000-year story in a single volume without either losing clarity or oversimplifying its subject...Rich and fascinating. -- Arnold R. Isaacs * San Francisco Chronicle *
      Will serve for decades to come as a standard reference and textbook. -- Robert L. Worden * Washington Post Book World *

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