Joseph W. Esherick

Ancestral Leaves

A Family Journey through Chinese History

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Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family-Ye means leaf in Chinese-reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-94762-7
EAN: 9780520947627
Produktnummer: 21595847
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 392 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'881 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Joseph W. Esherick is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (UC Press) and co-editor of The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, among many books.