Quest for Power
Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations
| Author: | Stephen R. Halsey | ISBN: | 9780674915060 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 12, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephen R. Halsey |
| ISBN: | 9780674915060 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 12, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
