Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century

By Orville Schell, John Delury

Categories: History

Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century (2013) is a book by Orville Schell and John Delury. Schell and Delury trace China's quest for wealth and power through portraits of eleven figures, from reformers Wei Yuan and Liang Qichao to Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. They show how humiliation by the West drove a long national project of recovery.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "Wealth and Power: China's long march to the 21st century" by Orville Schell and John Delury. I know there are lots of China history books these days, but this one is really well done. It tells the story with lots of interesting historical characters and deep insights into the country. Really worth reading.”