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. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.

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: A New History, Enlarged Edition
• 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

Other HUP Books by Merle Goldman

• China: A New History, Enlarged Edition
• 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
• Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China