A bitter revolution :: China's struggle with the modern world /

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world....

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1. Verfasser: Mitter, Rana, 1969-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:Making of the modern world.
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Zusammenfassung:China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in.
Beschreibung:Originally published: 2004.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191513008
0191513008
9780192803412
0192803417
1280752351
9781280752353
9786610752355
6610752354
9781429468701
142946870X

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