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The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009

By Jonathan Fenby

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In the second half of the 19th century, China appeared as the sick man of Asia, rocked by recurrent revolts and huge natural disasters, ruled by an anachronistic imperial system and humiliated by foreign invasions. Karl Marx saw it as bound to disintegrate, like `any mummy carefully preserved in a hermetically sealed coffin’. The first half of the 20th century was even worse, culminating in fourteen years of invasion by Japan, four years of civil war and three decades of chaotic, oppressive rule...Show more

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2009

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English

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The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009

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