Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800 by Pamela Kyle Crossley
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Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800

Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800


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About the Book

This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities.

  • Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability - the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound's translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong
  • Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China's surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism
  • Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues
  • Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading
  • Places China's history within the context of global change

About the Author: Pamela Kyle Crossley is Professor of Inner Asian, East Asian Intellectual and Chinese History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Her publications include The Manchus (Blackwell, 1997); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Ideology (1999); and What is Global History? (2008). She is a past Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2001.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405160797
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: China Since 1800: An Interpretive History
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1405160799
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2010
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 766 gr


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