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Understanding China through comics volume 5
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English
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China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the direction of reconstruction. Civil wars ensued, followed by WWI.
The fate of the country appeared to be in the hands of industrial powers like Britain, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. All seemed lost when Japan seized all Chinese...
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Understanding China through comics volume 4
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English
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"The fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly productive Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus under the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. The book also addresses Wang Yangming's School of Mind and the painful process of modernization and conflict with the West and Japan, including the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion."--Amazon.com.
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Understanding China through comics volume 2
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English
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What lies at the heart of Chinese culture? How have the Chinese people and their government changed over time? The "Understanding China through comics" series answers these questions and more. "Division to unification in imperial China" explores the Age of Division, a period of civil wars and foreign invasions, through to the Golden Age of the Tang dynasty, at the time the most powerful empire in the world, and its ultimate collapse. This same...
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