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Books by Jiang Tingfu
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Modern Chinese History (Guomai Classics) 中国近代史（果麦经典）
Jiang Tingfu's A History of Modern China is an authoritative, bestselling work from the Republic of China era. In clear, fluent prose, it traces a century of change, covering political struggles, clashes between civilizations, social conventions, and the inertia of the nation. In just sixty thousand words, it explains the major events and figures of China's modern century. By getting to the heart of the matter, it manages to be both “concise” and “comprehensive.”
218Reads9.2Score117Shelves
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Modern Chinese History: A Century of Upheaval 中国近代史：百年风云
This book captures the sweeping story of modern Chinese history, tracing China’s journey from decline to resurgence. Renowned historian Jiang Tingfu wrote it for general readers, emphasizing the conflicts and upheavals of history and bringing out the complexity and drama of the modern era. In exceptionally concise prose, he explains the evolution of history, clashes of civilizations, major events, and key figures in the century following the Opium War. Sweeping and comprehensive yet clear, fluen
44Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Modern Chinese History 中国近代史
History of Modern China, written by the historian Jiang Tingfu, ranges from the Opium War to the Xinhai Revolution, from the Self-Strengthening Movement to the Hundred Days’ Reform, and from Zeng Guofan to Kang Youwei, from Li Hongzhang to Sun Yat-sen. It vividly recounts nearly a century of change and the people who shaped it, without dry textual scholarship or piles of historical documents, while bringing into focus the country’s future, the nation’s fate, and the direction of social developme
26Reads9.0Score—Shelves
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A Brief History of Modern China: How China Transformed from a Rural Society into a Modern Nation-State in the True Sense 中国近代简史 : 中国如何从一个乡土社会转变成一个真正意义上的近代民族国家
Originally titled A History of Modern China, this is a classic work of Chiang Ting-fu’s research into modern Chinese history. It was also once a university history textbook and had a far-reaching influence. With a calm, objective approach, Chiang recounts Chinese history from the Opium War to the Xinhai Revolution, expressing scholarly concern for China’s future and the fate of its people while offering many keen insights. The American sinologist John King Fairbank called Chiang “the leading aut
17Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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Jiang Tingfu's History of Modern China 蒋廷黻中国近代史
From the Opium Wars to the Xinhai Revolution, from the Self-Strengthening Movement to the Hundred Days' Reform, from Zeng Guofan to Kang Youwei, from Li Hongzhang to Sun Yat-sen, this book vividly recounts nearly a century of change and the people who shaped it. It avoids dry, painstaking research and the mere piling up of historical sources, yet brings into sharp focus the nation's prospects, the people's fate, and the direction of social development. Taking China's modernization as its central
16Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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Modern Chinese History: Classics for Every Reader 中国近代史——国民阅读经典
Using China’s modernization as its central theme, this book argues that “whether the Chinese people can modernize will determine the nation’s survival or decline.” It discusses Chinese history from the Opium War to the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan. It focuses on the efforts people made to strengthen the country in the face of a transformation unseen in thousands of years, and the reasons those efforts failed. It then argues that “modern national defense requires not only modern tra
3Reads8.7Score—Shelves