China in Crisis: Volume 1, Book 1: China's Heritage and the Communist Political System / edited by Ping-ti Ho and Tang Tsou, with a foreword by Charles U. Daly
1968, First Edition. The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 447 pages; Papers from a conference supported by the Center for Policy Study of the University of Chicago. xiv, 447p ; 24cm. A fine collection of scholarly historiographical essays - including contributions by Chalmers Johnson, Benjamin Schwartz, Martin Wilbur, John Lewis, Franz Schurmann, S. N. Eisenstadt and others - on China's history and modern development, with much attention given to the communist system, the personal influence and ideas and beliefs of Mao Tse-Tung, the problems of continuity as opposed to social and political change, American interventionism, China's neighbors and their own influences over China's course, and much more. Item #26795
ISBN: 0226345181
Price: €12.95