Routledge Foreign Intervention And China's Industrial Development, 1870-1911

Product Description More than one hundred years ago, imperial Chinese leaders tried to industrialize their nation, much as China’s leaders are attempting today. Self-strengthening projects in industry and the military were implemented to increase China’s wealth and power and to protect the country from further colonization by the Western powers of the nineteenth centu About the Author Stephen C. Thomas is assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Denver.