Jonathan Fenby

The Penguin History of Modern China (eBook, ePUB)

The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'China's reemergence as a global economic powerhouse has compressed into a single generation an industrial and urban revolution on a scale the world has never seen. Its transformation looks to many foreigners, and to millions of newly prosperous Chinese, like a near-miraculous escape from the agonies of its recent history - late imperial, warlord-republican and Maoist. The great merit of Jonathan Fenby's vivid account of the years since 1850 is to underline how heavily that history still weighs on the present' Rosemary Righter, The Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141917610
• Artikelnr.: 38140602

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Fenby has edited the Observer, the South China Morning Post and Reuters World Serve as well as holding senior positions at the Economist, Independent and Guardian.