Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

by Orville Schell and John Delury

Book Overview

Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an impressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812976258
• ISBN13: 9780812976250
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"