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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Modern Chinese History</i> provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. It can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contemporary Chinese politics, society, and economics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Modern Chinese History</em> provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. It can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contemporary Chinese politics, society, and economics. General readers wanting quickly to understand the collapse of imperial China and the rise of Communism will welcome this eminently readable text.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>DAVID KENLEY is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Dakota State University. Formerly Professor of Chinese History at Elizabethtown College, he is committed to the concept of the scholar-teacher. Kenley's research interests focus on Chinese migration. His publications include <i>New Culture in a New World: The May Fourth Movement and the Chinese Diaspora, 1919-1932</i> as well as <i>Contested Community: Identities, Spaces, and Hierarchies of the Chinese in the Cuban Republic</i> (with Miriam Herrera Jerez and Mario Castillo Santana). Currently he is researching Western peacemaking activities in early twentieth-century China.

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