Fall of Imperial China

by Frederic Wakeman

Overview

From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline.

From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780029336809
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	01/01/1977
Series:	Transformation of Modern China Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. was a scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council.