· Overview. The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st. Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent Brand: Oxford University Press. · Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom has written a deceptively simple book of twentieth-century Chinese history. It examines over one hundred years of Chinese history and the Chinese present from a multiplicity of facets in six chapters packed with sections. · Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st. Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the. The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound/5.
For students of history, it has been a very worrying year. The world's second- and third-largest economic powers are at loggerheads over territory, diplomacy. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, xxii + pp. $ (paper), ISBN ; $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Diana Lin (Indiana University Northwest,) Published on H-Asia (July, ) Commissioned by Sumit Guha. The China Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring ) Perhaps the most compelling issue of China's 20th-century history, and for this reader of Wasserstrom's book, is the conflict between the urban and rural, a conflict that fueled the revolutions in and , the Cultural Revolution, and the new revolution commenced in
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world’s newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China’s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st. Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the. The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. China in the 21st Century book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the.
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