"Gray's analytical and argumentative approach is especially useful on the late 19th-century modernisation processes."--London Review of Books
"Gray has incorporated the latest scholarship and presented a lively, cogent, and hardheaded case for the benefits of Western contact and the rationality of warlord responses during the Republican era....This is a refreshingly candid reassessment of modern Chinese history that opens up many new
avenues of investigation."--Choice
"Jack Gray's work is at once readable and definitive as a political survey."--Steven Sage, Middle Tennessee State University
"Gray's analytical and argumentative approach is especially useful on the late 19th-century modernisation processes."--London Review of Books
"Gray has incorporated the latest scholarship and presented a lively, cogent, and hardheaded case for the benefits of Western contact and the rationality of warlord responses during the Republican era....This is a refreshingly candid reassessment of modern Chinese history that opens up many new
avenues of investigation."--Choice
"Jack Gray's work is at once readable and definitive as a political survey."--Steven Sage, Middle Tennessee State University
"Gray's analytical and argumentative approach is especially useful on the late 19th-century modernisation processes."--London Review of Books
"Gray has incorporated the latest scholarship and presented a lively, cogent, and hardheaded case for the benefits of Western contact and the rationality of warlord responses during the Republican era....This is a refreshingly candid reassessment of modern Chinese history that opens up many new avenues of investigation."--Choice
"Jack Gray's work is at once readable and definitive as a political survey."--Steven Sage, Middle Tennessee State University
"Gray's analytical and argumentative approach is especially useful on the late 19th-century modernisation processes."--London Review of Books
"Gray has incorporated the latest scholarship and presented a lively, cogent, and hardheaded case for the benefits of Western contact and the rationality of warlord responses during the Republican era....This is a refreshingly candid reassessment of modern Chinese history that opens up many new avenues of investigation."--Choice
"Jack Gray's work is at once readable and definitive as a political survey."--Steven Sage, Middle Tennessee State University
