The Chinese century : a photographic history of the last hundred years / Jonathan D. Spence & Annping Chin ; photographs researched by the authors, Colin Jacobson and Annabel Merullo.
End of empire, 1894-1906 -- A fragile constitution, 1907-1917 -- Away with the old, 1917-1924 -- Alliance and purge, 1925-1928 -- Rule of the Guomindang, 1928-1936 -- War with Japan, 1937-1941 -- World War and Civil War, 1942-1949 -- A Communist state, 1949-1957 -- Great leap, great famine, 1958-1965 -- Cultural revolution, 1966-1976 -- The post-Mao world, 1976-1986 -- Pressures of the new, 1987-1996.
The history of China in photographs, including "rare photos of the Boxer Rebellion and the Rape of Nanking, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution."--Jacket.
Includes index.