Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned it into one of the greatest powers of the twenty-first century. His 'Four Modernisations' - re…
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy - so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. This book argues that the li…
by Han, Suyin
fromKodansha Globe
by Han, Suyin
fromKodansha Globe
Tells of a fleet of Chinese treasure ships and seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433.
