History

Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years, growing from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history.

Martin K. Whyte and Mary C. Brinton’s book contains fond reminiscences from 155 diverse individuals to convey what was so extraordinary about the character and life of the late Ezra Vogel, a professor of Chinese Studies at Harvard.

Maura Dykstra’s book, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine, investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state.

Lawrence Zhang’s groundbreaking study investigates how observers and critics of the Qing’s purchase system informs the questionable view that it was anti-meritocratic.