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# The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A rewarding delightful experience
*by A***L on May 8, 2013*

I read history to understand my short time in a finite place, the United States in the first part of the 21st century. Just I do not have to take any test, pass any course or earn any degrees, John King Fairbanks when he wrote this late in life didn't have to face any peer review committee or publishers approval. He writes this book as a gift to share his life time of scholarship to those who are just interested in what forces forms our way of life, using China as both a particular story and an example of universals.He lays out the vastness of the challenge of the book in the beginning, saying China isn't just a country; in variety and vastness it would be compared to all of "Christiandom" that is Europe, Western Asia and North an South America. He frankly shares the limits of what is known, describing the Taiping Revolution, a heterodox Christian ideology that became a horde led by a man who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, that ravaged the land for a decade loss of life in the millions. All records of this event that was occurring during our own civil war had been destroyed by the dynastic rulers who saw it as an embarrassment, only to be recreated laboriously by later historian. While he tells of the history, he recounts the historiography, the project of recovering records that can allow the stories to be accurately told.What makes this book unique is the way Fairbank steps aside to describe the difficulties of explaining various elements. So we learn a bit about Chinese Characters and how they were revised to make them more accessible to the masses who had been almost all illiterate. We also learn more about those Scholar-Officials that had been equated to our own civil service. It was so much more, as Fairbank described it was a combination of a full college professor and member of congress. They became a class, almost a separate ethnic group who dressed, talked and looked differrent, with not only delegated authority but as interpreter of classic Confucian values. And when Fairbank takes a crack at describing that which takes a lifetime to understand, he prefaces it with saying how pale the explanation is to the full understanding.So, for this novice, I came away learning a bit about China, but also the privilege of with spending time with this good natured scholar who loved his subject and seemed to get a real pleasure out of sharing what he spent his lifetime to understand.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best book on China I ever read
*by Y***G on January 25, 2014*

"The Great Chinese Revolution" is a great book, no match among the books on China I have read in that the author, the greatest Sinologist, John King Fairbank really wrote in the way a surgeon operated with a scapel, dissecting Chinese culture so thoroughly and the observation so piercing that I couldn't help clapping with my hands many times while reading it. He uprooted all the grave problems with Chinese culture in terms of politics and shed light on them in such an enlightening way that conquered me totally.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985
*by T***R on March 20, 2013*

This book by John Fairbank King is a very interesting book on China. As someone who has taken Asian Studies courses in college, I used this book to aid in the writing of an article for future publication. However, if you long to learn about China, you need to read this book.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985
- China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition
- The United States and China: Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged (American Foreign Policy Library)

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