Albert Feuerwerker, Rhoads Murphy, Mary C. Wright (Editors)
Approaches to Modern Chinese History.
University of California Press, 1967. First edition. 356 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in quarter yellow cloth and black paper-covered boards, with gilt-lettered black spine compartment. Book shows shelfwear, with foxing to top edge of text block. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $7.50 on front flap, exhibits moderate wear, with sunning to spine. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"In technique and theme the essays in this volume illustrate the progress that modern Chinese historical studies have made since the early 1900s, when H. B. Morse and Henri Cordier shunning both the minutiae of contemporary sinology and the condescension of treaty-port journalism, turned to look as historians at the last century of the Manchu empire.
The twelve studies range chronically from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth - the late Ch'ing period and the Republic. Their subject matter sounds four motifs, which, if they were present at all in the first state of of modern China, were muted: the internal political-institutional history of modern China, the texture of intellectual life, the nature of the traditional and semi-modern economy, and the foreign relations of China interpreted as something more than conventional diplomatic history."