THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION..

The late 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. This book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue. She provides a detailed account of the wide array of changes--social, economic, cultural, and even political--that have taken place in China over the past two decades.

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Other HUP Books by John King Fairbank

• China Watch
• The United States and China, 4th Revised and Enlarged Edition
• Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863-1866
• Research Guide for China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923
• China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923
• China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A
• America's China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance
• Ch'ing Administration: Three Studies
• Japanese Studies of Modern China: A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the 19th and 20th Centuries
• The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
• Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of Treaty Ports, 1842-1854
• Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953: A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings
• Communist China 1955-1959: Policy Documents and Analysis
• Modern China
• Entering China's Service: Robert Hart's Journals
• The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911-1915
• China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

Other HUP Books by Merle Goldman

• The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms
• China's Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship
• Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era
• Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era
• Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
• China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent
• Literary Dissent in Communist China
• Ideas Across Cultures: Essays on Chinese Thought in Honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz
• Science and Technology in Post-Mao China
• Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China
• From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China
• China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition
• Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China