China's Wars: Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949

This new history of China's pivotal wars from 1894 to 1949 explains how China was transformed from a isolated and ramshackle medieval empire into a fledgling new world power.

China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will.

China's Wars describes the series of conflicts from 1894 to 1949 that forged modern China, from colonial clashes ...