Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

ISBN-13: 9780099569596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 528 str.

Odd Arne Westad

Opis

Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to People's Republic, this title shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.

Recenzje

Written by one of the most distinguished scholars on China, this book brings clarity and insight into complex historical issues Jung Chang

O autorze

Westad, Odd Arne Odd Arne Westad is one of the world's foremost experts on both the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history, having won the Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Award and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award for his seminal book The Global Cold War. A Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, he is also co-director of LSE IDEAS, a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy.