Revolution and Its Past : Indentities and Change in Modern Chinese History
ISBN: 9780131930391 | 0131930397
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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For courses on Modern Chinese History, Politics, Society, and Culture; a supplement for courses on East Asian civilization, World History and Civilization. Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history which tend to be either encyclopedic or too pedantic Revolution and Its Past is usably comprehensive, focused on cutting-edge interpretations, and written in a style that engages students from beginning to end. The Second Edition uses the theme of identities of the nation itself and of the Chinese people to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In so doing, it explores the range of identities China has chosen over time and those that outsiders have bestowed upon China and its people showing how, as China rapidly modernizes, the issue of Chinese identity in the modern world looms large.
| From the Heights to the Depths: Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780-1901 | |
| Personal Identities | |
| Chinese and Manchus | |
| The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity | |
| An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitment to Traditional Chinese Identities and Approaches | |
| The Power of Traditional Cultural Identity: Chinese Reactions to Continuing Threats | |
| Th... MORE | |
| ldquo;No Checking the Tides of Changerdquo;: Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901-1928 | |
| The Revolutionary Manchus | |
| Selecting Identities: The Early Republic | |
| Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement | |
| Drawing the Sword: The Politicization of Identity | |
| Revolution and Identity: Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928-1960 | |
| Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade | |
| Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s | |
| A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, the 1920s and 1930s | |
| The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 | |
| Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China's Identity, 1945- 1949 | |
| Paths to the Future | |
| Coming Unglued | |
| From ldquo;Politics in Commandrdquo; to the Glory of Getting Rich: Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961-2000 | |
| Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
| The End of Communism: ldquo;Tomorrow is the Children's.rdquo; 20. Successes and Problems at Century's End | |
| Nation and Identity: The Place of China in the World and of the Chinese in China | |
| Riding the Political Waves: Literature, Art, Cinema, and Popular Culture | |
| A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan Since the 1970s | |
| Epilogue | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
