The search for modern China: a documentary collection

by Cheng, Pei-kai Lestz, Michael Elliot Spence, Jonathan D.

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This volume is a collection of primary source documents and is a companion to the text: The Search for Modern China, 2nd edition. The documents range from the essential political works to the less standard ones that reflect everyday life, the family, social networks, and cultural life.

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Full title :The search for modern China : a documentary collection / edited by Pei-kai Cheng, Michael Lestz, with Jonathan D. Spence.

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Publication Date:c1999.
Edition:1st ed

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Publisher(s):Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:c1999.

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Description:1 online resource (xx, 531 pages)

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oclc:on1200543644
LC Classification:DS753.86
Dewey Decimal:951/.03

The Late Ming -- The Manchu conquest -- Kangxi's consolidation -- Yongzheng's authority -- Chinese Society and the reign of Qianlong -- China and the eighteenth century world -- The first clash with the West -- The crisis within -- Restoration through reform -- New tensions in the late Qing -- The end of the dynasty -- The new Republic -- "A road is made" -- The fractured alliance -- The Guomindang in power -- Communist survival -- World War II -- The fall of the Guomindang state -- The birth of the People's Republic -- Planning the new society -- Deepening the revolution -- The Cultural Revolution -- Reopening the doors -- Redefining revolution -- Levels of power -- Testing the limits -- Century's end.

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