National Polity and Local Power The Transformation of Late Imperial China

Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's 'response to the West.' This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western, goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during the transition to modernity.Kuhn, Philip A. is the author of 'National Polity and Local Power The Transformation of Late Imperial China' with ISBN 9780674602250 and ISBN 0674602250.