Origins of the Modern Chinese State

By Philip Kuhn and Philip A. Kuhn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749299
• ISBN13: 9780804749299
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"