Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy

Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy
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Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 330
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Download or read book Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy written by Etienne Balazs and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this book, a selection of Dr. Balazs' essays are presented for the first time in English. Arthur F. Wright, professor of history at Yale, and John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard, have written a joint Preface and Mr. Wright has written an Introduction. Scholars and interested laymen will find a rich feast here in essays ranging over two thousand years of China's social, economic, political, and intellectual history. A wealth of data supports the various theories Dr. Balazs develops, in a graceful translation by Hope N. Wright.


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