Great State. China and the World, Paperback - Timothy Brook

The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traito...

The most recent eight centuries of China's relationship with the other nations of the world taken in across this accessible 'big history'. Perspect...

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly t...

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It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations th...

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The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the hi...

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