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About the Author
bJeffrey N. Wasserstrom/b is the Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books. His most recent ones are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020), and, as coauthor, the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018). In addition to writing for scholarly periodicals, he often contributes to newspapers and magazines.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting but surprisingly poorly written.
It would be foolish to question the credentials of the historians who wrote this book - as far as history is concerned. However, it is quite astonishing to encounter such inelegant and clumsy writing in every chapter of this volume. Indeed, the book is plagued with constant repetitions, and virtually identical sentences and blocks of texts coexisting within the very same paragraphs. I was not expecting Charles Dickens, but it seemed a given that the text would at the very least meet the basic standards of proper writing. After all the name, Oxford is in the title of the book.Since a different author is responsible for each chapter, after being surprised by the poor writing in the first one, I assumed that this was simply an anomaly, and that the rest of the volume would be just fine. However, every single chapter is subject to the same poor quality writing. One would expect that a book published by Oxford University Press would live up to certain very basic standards in terms of quality. Frankly, this is quite perplexing.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite new.
Text and print are fine; I have yet to read through the book so am unable to review content. The book cover however shipped with minor scratches and sticky stains despite being "new". Overall not a huge issue and does not affect readability.
Ausführliche historische Abhandlungen verschiedener Autoren
Das ist kein Buch mit netten Geschichten zur Vorbereitung auf eine Reise in ein unbekanntes Land. Das sind historische Abhandlungen, die den Bogen spannen über die Zeit der späten Ming Dynasie bis zur Gegenwart mit Xi Jingping. 12 Kapitel- mit Vorwort und Nachwort sind es 14. Das Buch hat 486 Seiten, endet auf Seite 412, danach kommt eine dreiseitige Zeittafel, viele Seiten mit weiteren Leseempfehlungen zu den einzelnen Kapiteln und ein sehr, sehr umfangreicher Index. Ein wissenschaftlich historisches Lehrbuch eben, in englischer Sprache aber lesbar geschrieben. Sollte jeder, der ein paar Jahre Englisch in der Schule gelernt hat meistern können. Der Inhalt ist für jemand wie mich, der bisher nur nette Einführungen in die chinesische Geschichte gelesen hat interessant- zum kritisch würdigen fehlt mir vergleichendes gelesen zu haben. Jedenfalls für jeden der sich ernsthaft dafür interessiert, was die Entwicklung war zu dem Punkt an dem wir heute stehen und was die heute handelnden Akteure aus der Geschichte auf deren Schultern sie stehen für Schlüsse ziehen, für den ist dieses Buch ein Muss.
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
Review
About the Author
bJeffrey N. Wasserstrom/b is the Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books. His most recent ones are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020), and, as coauthor, the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018). In addition to writing for scholarly periodicals, he often contributes to newspapers and magazines.
Reviews:
3.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting but surprisingly poorly written.
It would be foolish to question the credentials of the historians who wrote this book - as far as history is concerned. However, it is quite astonishing to encounter such inelegant and clumsy writing in every chapter of this volume. Indeed, the book is plagued with constant repetitions, and virtually identical sentences and blocks of texts coexisting within the very same paragraphs. I was not expecting Charles Dickens, but it seemed a given that the text would at the very least meet the basic standards of proper writing. After all the name, Oxford is in the title of the book.Since a different author is responsible for each chapter, after being surprised by the poor writing in the first one, I assumed that this was simply an anomaly, and that the rest of the volume would be just fine. However, every single chapter is subject to the same poor quality writing. One would expect that a book published by Oxford University Press would live up to certain very basic standards in terms of quality. Frankly, this is quite perplexing.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite new.
Text and print are fine; I have yet to read through the book so am unable to review content. The book cover however shipped with minor scratches and sticky stains despite being "new". Overall not a huge issue and does not affect readability.
Ausführliche historische Abhandlungen verschiedener Autoren
Das ist kein Buch mit netten Geschichten zur Vorbereitung auf eine Reise in ein unbekanntes Land. Das sind historische Abhandlungen, die den Bogen spannen über die Zeit der späten Ming Dynasie bis zur Gegenwart mit Xi Jingping. 12 Kapitel- mit Vorwort und Nachwort sind es 14. Das Buch hat 486 Seiten, endet auf Seite 412, danach kommt eine dreiseitige Zeittafel, viele Seiten mit weiteren Leseempfehlungen zu den einzelnen Kapiteln und ein sehr, sehr umfangreicher Index. Ein wissenschaftlich historisches Lehrbuch eben, in englischer Sprache aber lesbar geschrieben. Sollte jeder, der ein paar Jahre Englisch in der Schule gelernt hat meistern können. Der Inhalt ist für jemand wie mich, der bisher nur nette Einführungen in die chinesische Geschichte gelesen hat interessant- zum kritisch würdigen fehlt mir vergleichendes gelesen zu haben. Jedenfalls für jeden der sich ernsthaft dafür interessiert, was die Entwicklung war zu dem Punkt an dem wir heute stehen und was die heute handelnden Akteure aus der Geschichte auf deren Schultern sie stehen für Schlüsse ziehen, für den ist dieses Buch ein Muss.
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