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A Bitter Revolution by Rana Mitter
$42.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Making of the Modern World
China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and ...Show more
Modern China (A Very Short Introduction) by Rana Mitter
$29.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, hei ...Show more
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