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Cargando... China: una nueva historia (1992)por John King Fairbank
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Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas. Wikipedia en inglés (23)1997 fue el ano de la China, el momento tan esperado en que el gran imperio oriental recupero su soberania sobre Hong King, una de las ocho primeras potencias comerciales del planeta. Fue un caso unico en la historia: a partir del 1 de julio de 1997, Hong Kong dejo de ser colonia britanica para pasar a depender de otro pais, sin lograr la independencia. La transicion no fue facil: el tema de la cohabitacion de dos sistemas economicos y politicos tan distintos entre si, el comunismo y el capitalismo, generaba mucha inquietud. La China con su exotismo, su particular vision de los derechos humanos, su estructura social y familiar resulta muchas veces, incomprensible para los occidentales. Con la China nos estamos enfrentando a una civilizacion que se ha desarrollado de manera completamente autonoma de la nuestra. Una civilizacion que se encuentra enraizada en otros valores, otros modelos teoricos, otra moral y otra vision del mundo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Covering a 4000-year-old civilization in a total of 455 pages of text, of which only 405 were written by Fairbanks, is a daunting history however Fairbanks quickly develops the threads and themes he will follow throughout the history of a nation and a culture. Barely over half the book is dedicated to the ‘Imperial’ period from the first appearances of the elements that would become then shape Chinese culture to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the rest of the book covering the 20th Century that saw the Republican, Nationalist, and Communist eras. Goldman’s last chapter and epilogue attempts to follow Fairbanks threads and themes though in her own words and style which meshed well. This is not a history the delves into important people until the arrival of Mao, yet those Fairbanks points out and gives significant page space to are connected to the threads and themes. The number of sources and closer we get to our own time means the speed of history slows down, which given the number of pages is understandable but there were some sections of Chinese history I which Fairbanks would have given more time to.
China: A New History is the masterpiece of noted historian John King Fairbanks with a well written addition by Merle Goldman bringing the nation’s history up to the 21st Century. Given the amount of time needed to be covered and the number of pages its down in, it’s a fantastic history. ( )