China: a Modern History
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full implications of China's rapid march to modernity are not widely understood - particularly, the effects of China's meteoric rise on the natio…
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- Full title :China : a Modern History.
Summary
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full implications of China's rapid march to modernity are not widely understood - particularly, the effects of China's meteoric rise on the nation's many ethnic minorities. China: A Modern History is the definitive guide to this complex contempor.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (512 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1850435820, 9781850435822, 9780857730312, 0857730312
- oclc:ocn944134656
- LC Classification:DS755 .D55 2012
- Dewey Decimal:951
Table of Contents
Rise and fall of the Chinese empire -- China and the West: the road to the opium war -- Taiping, Nian and Muslim uprisings (1850-1884) -- Restoration and Western colonisation (1856-1898) -- Boxer rising and imperial decline (1899-1911) -- Struggle for the Republic of China (1911-1916) -- May fourth movement: communists and nationalists (1917-1924) -- Northern expedition and united front (1923-1927) -- Nanjing decade and the long march (1927-1937) -- Japanese invasion, second united front and civil war (1937-1949) -- Interlude: new China, new history? -- Liberation and the birth of the People's Republic of China (1949-1954) -- Economic and social policies (1950-1957) -- Great leap forward (1958-1965) -- Cultural revolution (1966-1980) -- Modernising and opening China -- Tibet and Xinjiang -- Hong King and Taiwan -- China after Deng Xiaoping -- Conclusion: China rising and a 'harmonious society'.
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