The History of China: Volume 5, The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907-1279, Part 1

This addition to the authoritative multivolume  History of China presents a chronological account broadly focused on the political and military history of a period of vast, deep, and irreversible change...Scholarly footnotes, 32 maps, and a 53-page bibliography offer guidance for further research...

The History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982

Volume 15 of The History of China is the second of two volumes dealing with the People's Republic of China since its birth in 1949. The harbingers of the Cultural Revolution were analyzed in Volume 14. Volume 15 traces a course of events still only partially understood by most Chinese.

The History of China: Volume 14, The People's Republic, Part 1, The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949-1965

This is the first of the two final volumes of The History of China, which describe the efforts of the People's Republic of China to grapple with the problems of adaptation to modern times. Volume 14 deals with the achievements of the economic and human disasters of the new regime's first sixteen years (1949-65).

The History of China: Volume 13, Republican China 1912-1949, Part 2

This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The titanic drama of the Chinese Revolution is one of the major world events of modern times. The fifteen authors of this volume are pioneers in its exploration and analysis, and their text is designed to meet the needs of non-specialist readers.

The History of China, Volume 10, Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 1

This is the first of two volumes in this major  history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government.