Grove Press, 2013. — 320 p. ISBN10: 080211959X. ISBN13: 978-0802119599. In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called tigers or mini-dragons, and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 208 p.
Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery. Invaluable. — James Fallows, National Correspondent for The...
Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1963. - 856 c.
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006 — 640 p. ISBN 0674018281 2nd edition John King Fairbank was the West’s doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in...