While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author
In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender
‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsi
By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting West