This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only prov

Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history, which tend to be either encyclopedic or too pedantic, Revolution and Its Past is comprehensive but concise, focuse

"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book

China, the world's oldest and most populous state, remains an enigma to most people in the West, even at a time when that country is playing an increasingly pro

This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.