Quest for Power

Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations
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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.

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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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