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The Making of Modern China: The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912)
By Jing Liu
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"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial China
The fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly productive Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus under the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. The book also addresses Wang Yangming's School of Mind and the painful process of modernization and conflict with the West and Japan, including the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion. Includes timeline.
Jing Liu is a Beijing- and Davis, CAbased designer and entrepreneur who uses his artistry to tell the story of China.
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