Out of China
  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718192396
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $32.99
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Out of China

How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

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The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today.

Even at the high noon of Europe's empire-building China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, the determination to assert China's standing in the world, to stake its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.
  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718192396
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Robert Bickers

Robert Bickers is Professor of History and Director of the 'Historical Photographs of China' project at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai and The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914.

Also by Robert Bickers

The Scramble for China
Getting Stuck in For Shanghai
Empire Made Me
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Praise for Out of China

It is a pleasure to read the fruits of his mature scholarship as he revisits familiar ground, puncturing myths and putting British and Chinese views into reciprocal perspective

Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times

Robert Bickers is a pre-eminent chronicler of China... a great story told with splashes of colour and sharp wit

Jonathan Fenby, Literary Review

This detailed account valuably reconstructs the west's recent cultural malfeasance in China, and also challenges the simple, propaganda narrative that the CCP tells about its deliverance of China from Colonial aggressors

Julia Lovell, Prospect