Author: John King FAIRBANK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
For generations scholars and the general public have looked to John King Fairbank for knowledge and insights about China. In four editions of this work he has provided these. Reviews of this book: "An indispensable book for thoughtful people." DD--New York Times Book Review "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." DD--New Republic "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." DD--China Business Review "The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning." DD--Kirkus Reviews "Still flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation...With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the 'very complex' Chinese way of life." DD--Asiaweek Literary Review "[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." DD--Asia Mail
The United States and China, 4th Revised and Enlarged Edition
Author: John King FAIRBANK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
For generations scholars and the general public have looked to John King Fairbank for knowledge and insights about China. In four editions of this work he has provided these. Reviews of this book: "An indispensable book for thoughtful people." DD--New York Times Book Review "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." DD--New Republic "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." DD--China Business Review "The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning." DD--Kirkus Reviews "Still flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation...With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the 'very complex' Chinese way of life." DD--Asiaweek Literary Review "[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." DD--Asia Mail
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
For generations scholars and the general public have looked to John King Fairbank for knowledge and insights about China. In four editions of this work he has provided these. Reviews of this book: "An indispensable book for thoughtful people." DD--New York Times Book Review "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." DD--New Republic "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." DD--China Business Review "The best general introduction to the Chinese political system...A book of love and great learning." DD--Kirkus Reviews "Still flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation...With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the 'very complex' Chinese way of life." DD--Asiaweek Literary Review "[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." DD--Asia Mail
The United States and China
Author: John King Fairbank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674924383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Focusing on China during the last twenty-five years, the author illuminates the country's traditions, customs, political structure, and economy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674924383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Focusing on China during the last twenty-five years, the author illuminates the country's traditions, customs, political structure, and economy.
Documents on Disarmament
Author: United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Justices, Presidents, and Senators
Author: Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847696055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This new edition of this classic history of the Supreme Court discusses the selection, nomination, and appointment of each of the Justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789. Abraham provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination, examining how each appointee's performance on the bench fulfilled, or disappointed, presidential expectations.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847696055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This new edition of this classic history of the Supreme Court discusses the selection, nomination, and appointment of each of the Justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789. Abraham provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination, examining how each appointee's performance on the bench fulfilled, or disappointed, presidential expectations.
John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War
Author: Richard H. Immerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
Organizing for National Security
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
Book Description
Examines the formulation and implementation of national security policy, and considers ways to achieve a more effective organization among the several branches and agencies of the Government involved with national security policy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
Book Description
Examines the formulation and implementation of national security policy, and considers ways to achieve a more effective organization among the several branches and agencies of the Government involved with national security policy.
Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
Author: Peter Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Development, Growth, and State of the Atomic Energy Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description