The United States and China, 4th Revised and Enlarged Edition

John King Fairbank

    Fairbank provides a miraculously concise account of Chinese civilization from its foundations to the present day...Maps, photographs, and an 80-page bibliography make this an invaluable reference work.
       --New Republic

    An indispensable book for thoughtful people.
       --New York Times Book Review

    As useful and timely as when it first appeared in 1948. Written by America's foremost China scholar, John Fairbank, the book addresses a popular, not the academic, audience. It offers a sweeping view of the Chinese polity from ancient times up to the recent, convoluted period of Western contact, spiced by the wit and insight into detail of a geographer who drew the maps himself...Yet the book offers much to the specialist as well as the layman. To the historian, a state-of-the-art review of the latest historical analysis of modern china...To the student, a cogent guide to the field...For the diplomat and businessman, the work explores that most intangible but also most influential area of human feeling between the two countries that has launched ventures and derailed them.
       --China Business Review

    The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning.
       --Kirkus Reviews

    [Fairbank's] ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles.
       --Asia Mail

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