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Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

Door Robert Bickers

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#355182-XG34
Titel	Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Auteur	Bickers, Robert
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Allen Lane/Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	1846146186
ISBN13	9781846146183
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w (including photographs), 8vo.
Samenvatting	The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by European powers (one of which,... (Lees verder) unnoticed, had mostly toppled into a river), the entrepots of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.
Pagina's	531
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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