{"product_id":"the-united-states-and-china-9780674924383","title":"The United States and China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this enlarged 4th edition Fairbank includes a new Preface and an Epilogue that bring the book up to date through 1982. He has also updated the bibliography and indexes. This book stands almost alone as a history of China, an analysis of Chinese society, and an account of Sino–American relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn indispensable book for thoughtful people. * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eFairbank provides a miraculously concise account of Chinese civilization from its foundations to the present day… Maps, photographs, and an 80-page bibliography make this an invaluable reference work. * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003e[Fairbank’s] ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles. * Asia Mail *\u003cbr\u003eStill flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation… With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the ‘very complex’ Chinese way of life. * Asiaweek Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eAs useful and timely as when it first appeared in 1948. Written by America’s foremost China scholar, John Fairbank, the book addresses a popular, not the academic, audience. It offers a sweeping view of the Chinese polity from ancient times up to the recent, convoluted period of Western contact, spiced by the wit and insight into detail of a geographer who drew the maps himself… Yet the book offers much to the specialist as well as the layman. To the historian, a state-of-the-art review of the latest historical analysis of modern China… To the student, a cogent guide to the field… For the diplomat and businessman, the work explores that most intangible but also most influential area of human feeling between the two countries that has launched ventures and derailed them. * China Business Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe best general introduction to the Chinese political system… A book of love and great learning. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Edwin o. Reischauer   Preface, 1983, by John K. Fairbank      Introduction      1. The Chinese Scene   The Contrast of North and South  China's Origins  The Harmony of Man and Nature     PART 1: THE OLD ORDER    2. The Nature of Chinese Society   Social Structure  The Peasant: Family and Kinship  The Market Community  Early China as an \"Oriental\" Society  The Medieval Flowering  The Gentry Class  The Chinese Written Language--The Scholar  Chinese Writing  The Scholar Class  Nondevelopment of Capitalism--The Merchant   3. The Confucian Pattern   Confucian Principles  Government by Moral Prestige  Early Achievements in Bureaucratic Administration  The Classical Orthodoxy  Neo-Confucianism Chinese Militarism  Individualism, Chinese Style  The Nondevelopment of Science   4. Alien Rule and Dynastic Cycles   Nomad Conquest  The First Sino-Foreign Empires  The Manchu Achievement  The Nature of Chinese Nationalism  The Dynastic Cycle   5. The Political Tradition   Bureaucracy  Central Controls  Government as Organized \"Corruption\"  Law  Religion  Taoism  Buddhism  Chinese Humanism  Folk Sects and Peasant Rebellion      PART 2: THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSS    6. The Western Invasion   European versus Chinese Expansion  The Arab Role  The Ming Explorations  Early Maritime Contact  The Jesuit Success  China's Impact on Europe  The Tribute System  The Canton System and Its Collapse  The Treaty System  Extraterritoriality  The Demographic Disaster   7. Rebellion and restoration   The White Lotus as a Prototype  The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom  The Taiping Religion  Taiping Communism  The Nien and Other Rebels  The Restoration of Confucian Government  \"China's Response to the West\" in Retrospect   8. Reform and revolution   The Self-Strengthening Movement  Imperialism and Reform in 1898  Revolutionaries versus Reformers  Sun Yat-sen  Liang Ch'i-ch'ao  Dynastic Reform and Republican Revolution  The New Nationalism  The Revolutionary Leadership   9. The rise of the Kuomintang   The Search for a New Order  The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy  The Republic's Decline into Warlordism  The Growth of Urban Nationalism  The May Fourth Movement  The Student Movement and New Literature  The Nationalist Revolution  The Kuomintang-Communist Alliance  The Nationalist Accession to Power   10. The nanking goverment   Political Development  Party Dictatorship   Rights Recovery  The Rise of Chiang Kai-shek   Echoes of Confucianism  Roots of Totalitarianism  Progress toward Industrialization  Transportation  Industry  Banking and Fiscal Policy  Public Finance  Local Government  The Rural Problem   11. The Rise of the Communist Party   Vicissitudes of the First Decade  The Attractions of Communism  The Comintern's Difficulties  The Rise of Mao Tse-tung   The Maoist Strategy  Yenan and Wartime Expansion   Organization of Popular Support  Wartime Ideological Development   The New Democracy  Liberation     PART 3:THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC    12. Our Inherited China Policy   American Expansion and Britain's Empire  America's Role within Britain's Informal Empire  The American Ambivalence about China  The Evolution of the Open Door  The Integrity of China  The Nature of the American Interest  America's Contribution and the Fate of Liberalism   13. United States Policy and the Nationalist Defeat   American Aid and Mediation  The Nationalist Debacle  The \"Loss of China\" in America  Our Ally Taiwan   14. The People's Republic: Establishing the New Order   Political Control  Coalition Government  The Party, Government, and Army Structures  The Mass Organizations  Law and Security  Economic Reconstruction  Land Reform  Social Reorganization  Thought Reform  Communism and Confucianism  Criticism, Literary and Political  The Korean War and Soviet Aid   15. The Struggle for Socialist Transformation   Collectivization of Agriculture  The First Five-Year Plan  The Struggles with Intellectuals and with Cadres  China in the World Scene  The Great Leap Forward  The Communes    16. The Second Revolution   Mao and His Opponents  The Two Approaches to China's Revolution  The Sino-Soviet Split  The Growth of Bureaucratic Evils  Cadre Life  Mao Revives the Revolution: The Socialist Education Movement  Repoliticizing the Army  The Cultural Revolution  The Aftermath  Mao Tse-tung's Monument   17. Perspectives: China and Ourselves   Our China Policy and the Wars in Korea and Vietnam  New Perspectives of the 1970s  China Today in the Light of Her Past  Echoes of the Dynastic Cycle  Processes of Modernization  Problems of the New Order   Epilogue, 1983  Suggested Reading   1983 Addenda to Suggested Reading   Index to Suggested Reading   General Index   Credits for Illustrations","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742276682071,"sku":"9780674924383","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674924383.jpg?v=1758383918","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-united-states-and-china-9780674924383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}