History of Imperial China: China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

A sound introduction to the much-maligned Qing dynasty.A popular perception, at least from some mainlanders, is that the Qing were an inherently corrupt and decrepit set of foreign invaders, doomed to fail immediately. Doctor Rowe instead notes that there may have been no such unified group of 'M...

from xiaomarlo

I learned a lot! But perhaps you can see from how long it took me to read a mere 287 pages (over a month), I found it dry and dense at times. This is as much a fault of mine as it is the author's, because I often find non-fiction tough to get into. I also expected more of a play-by-play of events...

from xiaomarlo

I learned a lot! But perhaps you can see from how long it took me to read a mere 287 pages (over a month), I found it dry and dense at times. This is as much a fault of mine as it is the author's, because I often find non-fiction tough to get into. I also expected more of a play-by-play of events...