The United States and China

by Fairbank, John King

• ISBN13: 9780674924383
• ISBN10: 067492438X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-09-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

For two generations scholars and general readers have looked to John King Fairbank for knowledge and insights about China. In three editions of The United States and China he has provided these. In this fourth edition, enlarged, he includes a new Preface and an Epilogue that brings the book up to date through the events of 1982. He has also updated the vast bibliography and both indexes. This book stands almost alone as a history of China, an analysis of Chinese society, and an account of Sino-American relations, all in brief compass. The older portions of the book still sparkle, and they have been refined by the latest scholarship and the author's own observations in the People's Republic of China. And many photographs, especially chosen by John and Wilma Fairbank, show a changing land and its inhabitants.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface, 1983

Introduction

The Chinese Scene

The Contrast of North and South China's Origins

The Harmony of Man and Nature

The Old Order

The Nature of Chinese Society Social Structure

The Peasant: Family and Kinship

The Market Community Early China as an ""Oriental"" Society

The Medieval Flowering

The Gentry Class

The Chinese Written Language--The Scholar Chinese Writing

The Scholar Class Nondevelopment of Capitalism--The Merchant

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