Quest For Power: European Imperialism And The Making Of Chinese Statecraft

China's late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this narrative, Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China's current great-power status to this so-called decadent era, when threats of war with European and Japanese empirestriggered innovative state-building and statecraft.

• | Author: Stephen R. Halsey
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674425650
• | ISBN-13: 9780674425651