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.

Bibliography and index are taken directly from the English-language original; some readers' marks are visible. Spence is credited by his Chinese name, Shi Jingqian 史景遷.1991 edition also held by Ricci Institute.

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Contents: Schall and Verbiest : to God through the stars -- Peter Parker : bodies or souls -- Ward and Gordon : glorious days of looting -- Lay and Hart : power, patronage, pay -- Martin and Fryer : trimming the lamps -- Edward Hume : Yale for China -- Mikhail Borodin : life in the sun -- Todd and Bethune : overcome all terrors -- Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer : a compass for Shangri-La -- The last rounds : U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

Schall and Verbiest: to God through the stars.--Peter Parker: bodies or souls. --Ward and Gordon: glorious days of looting.--Lay and Hart: power, patronage, and pay.--Martin and Fryer: trimming the lamps.--Edward Hume: Yale for China. --Mikhail Borodin: life in the sun.--Todd and Bethune: overcome all terrors.--Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer: a compass for Shangri-La.--The last rounds: U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.--Conclusion.--Chapter notes (p. [294]-325).

Contents: Schall and Verbiest : to God through the stars -- Peter Parker : bodies or souls -- Ward and Gordon : glorious days of looting -- Lay and Hart : power, patronage, pay -- Martin and Fryer : trimming the lamps -- Edward Hume : Yale for China -- Mikhail Borodin : life in the sun -- Todd and Bethune : overcome all terrors -- Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer : a compass for Shangri-La -- The last rounds : U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

Contents keywords: Imperial household--Banners and bondservants--House of Ts'ao (Cao) 曹 -- Ts'ao Yin in Peking--Soochow society--Peking and Soochow, poetry and society--Office of Textile Commissioner (Zhizaoju 織造局)--Subsidiary income--Customs houses--Stabilization of rice prices--Execution of Imperial commissions--Southern tours--K'ang-hsi Emperors six southern tours--Jesuits and the southern tours--Cao Yin and the southern tours--Southern tours in the Dream of the Red Chamber--Cao Yin and the Complete Tang Poems--Liang-huai Salt Administration 兩淮鹽法--Lianghuai Salt taxes, Salt Censors--Salt merchants--Cao Yin, Li Xu 李煦 as Lianghuai Salt censors--Cao Yin as the Emperor's secret informant--Cao Yin's Palace Memorials--Officials, rumors, robbers--Examination Hall Case of 1711 and the mutual impeachment of Gali 噶禮 and Chang Po-hsing (Zhang Boxing 張伯行 )--Fall of the House of Cao--Illness and death--Son Cao Yong 曹顒 --Adopted son Cao Fu 曹頫 --Appendixes: Raw silk prices, 1712-1726--Kiangsu rice prices, 1706-1722--New sample rice yields, 1715-1722--Authors hypothesis on the Dream of the Red Chamber (Hongloumeng 紅樓夢).