Author: Jean ChesneauxPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation
Author: Jean ChesneauxPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Tragedy of Liberation
Author: Frank DikötterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
Reins of Liberation
Author: Xiaoyuan LiuPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. He thus continues the argument he made in Frontier Passages that on its way to building a communist state, the CCP was confronted by a series of fundamental issues pertinent to China's transition to nation-statehood. The book's focus is on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Between the Revolution of 1911 and the Communists' triumph in 1949, the course of the Mongolian question best illustrates the genesis, clashes, and convergence of Chinese and Mongolian national identities and geopolitical visions.
Oxford Bibliographies
Author: China's Continuous Revolution
Author: Lowell DittmerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520065994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China
Author: Lin ChunPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788735633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A history of revolutionary China in the 20th century China under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatness. But is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" just neoliberal capitalism under another name? And, if so, how can China reclaim the heritage of the Revolution in this its 70th anniversary? In this panoramic study of Chinese history in the twentieth century, Lin Chun argues that the paradoxes of contemporary Chinese society do not merely echo the tensions of modernity or capitalist development. Instead, they are a product of both the contradictions rooted in its revolutionary history, and the social and political consequences of its post-socialist transition. Revolution and Counterrevolution in China charts China's epic revolutionary trajectory in search of a socialist alternative to the global system, and asks whether market reform must repudiate and overturn the revolution and its legacy.
The Tragedy of Liberation
Author: Frank DikötterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dik�tter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
China from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution
Author: Jean ChesneauxPublisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780394709345
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Discussions of key events, developments, and personalities in China between 1840 and 1911 are followed by selected illustrative documents. Glossary. Bibliogs
The Age of Openness
Author: Frank DikötterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520258815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Accessible to general readers and full of valuable insights for specialists, China before Mao presents a fresh way of approaching the country's modern history and shows that in politics, society, culture, and the economy, China was at its most diverse on the eve of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Wealth and Power
Author: Orville SchellPublisher:
ISBN: 0679643478
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.