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1. China

   How the Empire Fell

   Edited by Joseph Esherick, C.X. George Wei

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Macau – The Formation of a Global City

   Edited by C.X. George Wei

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Macau, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macau was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the...

   To Be Published September 23rd 2013 by Routledge