Origins of the Modern Chinese State - by Philip A Kuhn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>What is Chinese about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What is "Chinese" about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"This is a work of the first importance, one that successfully attempts to reach both a specialist and a broader audience. . . . It not only offers new and provocative historiographic arguments, but also recasts the familiar outline of post-1800 Chinese history in consistently novel and refreshing terms. . . . Both audiences will be intrigued by its implications for contemporary Chinese politics."--William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University<br>"Fluently argued and genuinely important, this work has value for specialists and generalists alike."--David E. Kelley, Oberlin College<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Admirers of Kuhn's own writings will find in this book a consummate summing up of decades of research in late imperial and twentieth-century Chinese history. The chapters move constantly back and forth, across the twentieth-century divide and over to European and American intellectual history, seamlessly meshing archival gems with insights from <i>wenji</i>, gazetteers, and other published sources.-- "China Review International"<br><br>Fluently argued and genuinely important, this work has value for specialists and generalists alike.--David E. Kelley "Oberlin College"<br><br>This is a small book but one packed with much erudition and insight. The Harvard historian, Philip Kuhn, is a master of his craft, filling page after page with the wisdom of his vast experience and expertise.-- "Journal of Asian History"<br><br>This is a work of the first importance, one that successfully attempts to reach both a specialist and a broader audience. . . . It not only offers new and provocative historiographic arguments, but also recasts the familiar outline of post-1800 Chinese history in consistently novel and refreshing terms. . . . Both audiences will be intrigued by its implications for contemporary Chinese politics.--William T. Rowe "Johns Hopkins University"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is <i>Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, </i> winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Stu
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