ISBN:  0553238760
Godina izdanja: 1984
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Molly Joel Coye - China Yesterday and Today
Bantam, 1984
540 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

illustrations, maps

Important documents, Chinese poems and stories, and writings from the East and the West provide a survey of China`s land, people, society, culture, traditions, relations with the West, and present state

NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED THIRD EDITION
YESTERDAY AND TODAY CHINA
Rich, authoritative and fascinating, here is an extraordinary study of China from Imperial times to the startling 1980s.
Intimate personal accounts, articles by the most eminent Western observers, and writings by the Chinese themselves provide a penetrating, panoramic overview of the three thousand years of Chinese society, culture and history.
Newly updated, this edition also contains the latest information on today`s China, including Deng Xiaoping on `The Four Modernizations,` Fox Butterfield on daily life in the `80s; Ruth and Victor W. Sidel on China`s population problems; John K. Fairbank on the enduring urban/rural dilemma; as well as viewpoints on such divergent topics as art, education, human rights, the role of women and foreign policy by such respected China authorities as Ross Terrill, Theodore H. White, Edgar Snow, C.P. Fitzgerald and more.


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Nonfiction, History,  0553238760, NR Kina, PRC