The Fall of Imperial China

From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China--both its astronomic rise and steep decline.

From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."

Author: Frederic Wakeman
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/01/1977
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.36w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780029336809

About the Author
Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. was a scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council.