In this book eight authors offer brand new insights on different events of Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics,... » 

In this book eight authors offer brand new insights on different events of Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture.They cover topics as diverse as inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the China display on the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Christianity and state-building in Republican Chaozhou, the Taiwan salt trade, Chinese indentured labor in World War I in France, China's rise and current internet regulation.Together, they highlight the complexity of multi-level interaction of different agents in the center and periphery of China, within the changing Chinese society and state as well as in China's emergence in the international system. «