Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2016
Summary
By now everyone knows the basic facts of China’s rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?
By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China, WEALTH AND POWER addresses t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139647 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349139644 |
| Author: | Orville Schell, John Delury |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 30mm |
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Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and lively, sympathetic and critical … exemplary - The Atlantic
In Wealth and Power, their crisp and comprehensive introduction to the history of modern China, historians Orville Schell and John Delury present us with the historical background we need to understand the driving mechanism that lies at the center of China today … They give us a portrait of a nation in the makingAbout The Author
Orville Schell
Orville Schell, author of more than a dozen books, studied Chinese history at Harvard and Berkeley and has written for many publications, including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Time, Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The New York Times. Formerly the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, he is currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in New York City.
John Delury received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Yale University, where he wrote his dissertation on the Ming-Qing Confucian scholar Gu Yanwu. He taught at Brown, Columbia, and Peking University, and was associate director of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is currently an assistant professor of East Asian studies at Yonsei University in Seoul.
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