The Making of Modern China: The Ming Dynasty to the Qing by Jing Liu

By Jing Liu

This most up-to-date quantity within the figuring out China via Comics sequence tells of the stunningly effective Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus lower than the Qing, the final chinese language dynasty. lined are Wang Yangming’s institution of brain and the painful technique of modernization and clash with the West and Japan, together with the Opium Wars and the Boxer uprising. With timeline.

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