Esherick, Joseph

Modern China; the making of a new society, from 1839 to the present by Orville Schell( Book )

5 editions published between 1972 and 1977 in English and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the history of China and its relationship with the West from the thirteenth-century visit of Marco Polo to the present day

China : how the empire fell by Joseph Esherick( Book )

14 editions published between 2013 and 2015 in English and held by 212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Qing dynasty was China's last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic fuelled further revolutionary movements, each intended to be more thoroughgoing than the last, from the National Revolution of the 1920s, to the Communist Revolution, and finally the Cultural Revolution. On the centenary of the 1911 Revolution, Chinese scholars debated the causes and significance of the empire's collapse, and this book presents twelve of the most important contributions. Rather than focusing on Sun Yat-sen's relatively weak and divided revolutionary movement, as much previous scholarship has, these studies examine the internal dynamics of political and socio-economic change in China. The chapters reveal how reforms in education, army organization, and constitutional rule created new social forces and political movements that undermined dynastic legitimacy within China and on its frontiers. Through detailed analyses, using new archival, memoir, diary, and newspaper sources, the authors cast new light on the sudden collapse of an empire that many thought was at last embarked on a road to reform and national rejuvenation."--Publisher's Web site

Empire, nation, and beyond : Chinese history in late imperial and modern times : a festschrift in honor of Frederic Wakeman( Book )

6 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1943 : China at the crossroads( Book )

2 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the grand narrative of modern Chinese history, 1943 is usually passed over with little notice. Great attention has been paid to critical watersheds in Chinese history- the end of the empire in 1911, the outbreak of full-scale war with Japan in 1937, or the triumph of the Chinese Communist revolution in 1949. What can we learn if we focus attention on a less dramatic year? In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allies renounced the unequal treaties, Chiang Kai-shek wrote China's Destiny and met with Roosevelt and Churchill at Cairo, and Mme Chiang made her memorable trip to the United States. From the northwestern province of Xinjiang to the southern smuggling entrepôt of Guangzhouwan, the stories of calculating politicians, suspected spies, starving peasants, downtrodden intellectuals, recalcitrant preachers, and star-crossed actors come together to illuminate the significance of this year for China as a whole. In thirteen topical chapters, both the achievements and the disappointments of 1943 are explored in an effort to capture a moment in time when China stood at a crossroads but the road ahead lay shrouded in the impenetrable fog of war

Ye : bai nian dong dang zhong de yi ge Zhongguo jia ting, cong wan Qing dao Minguo, zai dao gong he guo, shi dai hong liu zhong de jia zu ming yun chen fu by Joseph Esherick( Book )

1 edition published in 2014 in Chinese and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1943, Zhongguo zai shi zi lu kou = 1943, China at the crossroads( Book )

1 edition published in 2016 in Chinese and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Zai Zhongguo shi diao di ji hui : Meiguo qian zhu Hua wai jiao guan Yuehan S. Xieweisi di 2 ci shi jie da zhan shi qi de bao gao by John S Service( Book )

3 editions published in 1989 in Chinese and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1943 : Zhongguo zai shi zi lu kou( Book )

3 editions published between 2016 and 2018 in Chinese and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ben shu gai shu le 1943 nian zhong guo guo nei he guo ji de li shi bei jing, Yi jiang jie shi ri ji he ta de huo dong wei zhong xin fen xi le jiang de dui ri zhan lüe he yu zhong gong de chong tu, Zhe li guan zhu jiang jie shi zheng quan de xing zhi yi ji ta ben ren zai 1943 nian zuo chu de zhong yao jue ding, Ji tui fan le xian qian che huan shi di wei de da suan, Bing qie fang qi le dui yan an fa qi jin gong de ji hua

Ye : Bai nian dong dang zhong de yi ge zhong guo jia ting by Joseph Esherick( Book )

2 editions published in 2014 in Chinese and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ben shu zhu yao jiang shu le zhong guo bai nian li shi zhong yi ge jia ting de bian qian, cong wan qing dao " wen ge " jie shu, ba zheng ge guo jia shi shi ban de ji shu huo ling huo xian di zhan shi le chu lai. ye jia ren de sheng huo xian shi le jue ding xian dai zhong guo de zhong da shi jian de ren xing hua de yi mian : 19 shi ji da gui mo de po huai xing pan luan, gong he guo shi qi de jing ji fa zhan he she hui zhuan xing, er zhan shi qi ri ben de qin lue, yi ji wen hua da ge ming zhong de hao jie

Lost chance in China by John S Service( Book )

2 editions published in 1974 in Undetermined and English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide