The Emergence of China presents the classical period in its own terms. It contains more than 500 translated excerpts from the classical texts, linked by a runni

Reveals how the CCP pursued global expansion by running the Chinese state like an organisation that acts as swiftly and flexibly as a firm.

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.

Prior to the initiation of economic reforms and trade liberalization 36 years ago, China maintained policies that kept the economy very poor, stagnant, centrall

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between poli