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Books by 魏斐德
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The Fall of the Chinese Empire 中华帝国的衰落
The Fall of Imperial China, a textbook on modern Chinese history adopted by several American universities, is written in clear, fluent prose and is easy to understand. Unlike traditional general histories, which tell the story chronologically, the book begins with the three groups that formed the main structure of traditional society: peasants, gentry, and merchants. It examines in detail how the Chinese Empire established order and grew strong, fell into crisis, and then rebuilt order once agai
491Reads9.2Score166Shelves
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Hongye: The Founding History of the Qing Dynasty 洪业：清朝开国史
Professor Frederic Wakeman's landmark history, The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, recounts one of the most dramatic periods in Chinese dynastic history: the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644 and the Qing dynasty's consolidation over the following twenty years. Against the broad backdrop of politics, economics, culture, society, ethnicity, and national defense, the author offers an overarching analysis of how one empire fell into crisis
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The Spy King: Dai Li and China's Secret Agents 间谍王：戴笠与中国特工
The Spy King studies the secret agents of the Kuomintang's military intelligence service. Drawing on a wealth of memoirs and archival materials, it is a landmark academic work and among the earliest studies of the Republic of China's secret service system by overseas scholars. Using the life and political career of Dai Li, the "Spy King," as its guiding thread, the book primarily examines the rise and development of his vast, mysterious spy empire. The author traces the complex relationships amo
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