China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China)

By William T. Rowe

Book Overview

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674036123
• ISBN13: 9780674036123
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"