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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
415Reads9.2Score127Shelves
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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
112Reads9.0Score—Shelves
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King of Spies: Dai Li and the Chinese Agents 间谍王：戴笠与中国特工
"The Spy King" takes the Kuomintang military reunification spies as the research object, and uses a large number of relevant memoirs and archival materials. It is the earliest representative academic work by overseas scholars to study the spy system of the Republic of China. This book takes the overall life and political experience of "Spy King" Dai Li as a clue, and mainly studies the development of his huge and mysterious spy kingdom. The author describes the intricate relationship between the
37Reads8.1Score—Shelves