![]() Jonathan Fenby's clear and comprehensive account of China's recent past, now updated to take in the eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party in Autumn 2012, is the definitive guide to this remarkable transformation. This makes its current position as the newest and, arguably, most important global superpower all the more extraordinary. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. The Penguin History of Modern Chinashows how turbulent that journey has been. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China by Jonathan Fenby In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. ![]() Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946.War and Weaponry in Ancient Rome and Greece. ![]()
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