Quest for Power

Quest for Power
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780674425651
ISBN-13 : 0674425650
Rating : 4/5 (650 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Quest for Power by : Stephen R. Halsey

Download or read book Quest for Power written by Stephen R. Halsey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this narrative, Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China’s current great-power status to this so-called decadent era, when threats of war with European and Japanese empirestriggered innovative state-building and statecraft.

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