The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has edited a number of books on China and is the author of four: Student Protests in Twentieth Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991), China's Brave New World-And Other Tales for Global Times (2007), Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2009), and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010; new ed. 2013), the last of which was also published by Oxford University Press. A co-founder of and contributing editor to the influential China Beat blog (2008-2012), he is a regular contributor to the press, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and he co-edits the Asia section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, he has been traveling to China regularly since the 1980s.

• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Introduction 1: Anne Gerritsen: From Late Ming to High Qing, 1550-1792 2: Stephen R. Platt: New Domestic and Global Challenges, 1792-1860 3: Robert Bickers: Restoration and reform, 1860-1900 4: Peter Zarrow: Felling a Dynasty, Founding a Republic 5: James Carter: The Rise of Nationalism and Revolutionary Parties, 1919-1937 6: Rana Mitter: The War Years, 1937-1949 7: S. A. Smith: The Early Years of the People's Republic, 1950-1964 8: Richard Curt Kraus: The Cultural Revolution Era, 1964-1976 9: Timothy Cheek: Reform and Rebuilding, 1976-1988 10: Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess: Tiananmen and Its Aftermath, 1989-1999 11: William A. Callahan: China Rising, 2000-2010 12: Ian Johnson: The Presence of the Past - A Coda Timeline Further Reading Index

This finely crafted volume has much to offer to readers, no matter how familiar they are with modern Chinese history ... the wealth of images together with the rich chapters make this history of modern China one of a kind.