Title: History from the Chinese side. Unfiltered.
Product review: Both of Hu Sheng's histories, this one as well as his classic "Imperialism and Chinese Politics", provide badly-needed purely Chinese perspective on modern Chinese history and China's struggle with the West from late Qing dynasty onward. Hu Sheng's attack is powerful, fresh, insightful, startling, and, yes, appropriately angry. The anecdotes and sources, taken from Chinese language histories, are extremely valuable, and largely unavailable in English language histories of China. Do not be put off with Hu Sheng's political affiliations. His views are shared by Chinese across the spectrum, all over the world. In a world in which establishmentarian Western scholars have so badly clouded, neutered,inculcated and "made safe" the history of China, and the Chinese side of the story, Hu Sheng's analysis is a treasure.
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