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TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA
by Clubb, O. Edmund
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0231085591
- ISBN 13
- 9780231085595
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1965. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New. Illustrated soft cover/VG; Strong & sound w/faint creasings to spine, lower front & upper back corners; showing discoloration & light soiling to both cover & text edges. PO name on fEP. A very fine and thorough, historical account of the complex and often enigmatic socio-political scene of contemporary China from the fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty in 1911 through the power struggles between Yuan Shih-kai and other warlords, and Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung within, and dynamics of Russian, Japanese, and American pressures without, Japanese invasion, to the 1949 establishment of Communist rule. Edmun Clubb was the last US Consul General in Peiping, a post terminated in 1950. A superlative work.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004212
- Title
- TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA
- Author
- Clubb, O. Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 3rd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0231085591
- ISBN 13
- 9780231085595
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- History/Contemporary/China
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