Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World

Name: Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780192806055

ISBN-10: 019280605X

ISBN-13: 9780192806055

Edition: 2005

Authors: Rana Mitter

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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. By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders,…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Rana Mitter is ?University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, University of Oxford.



Prologue Tian'anmen Square, 1989



Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919



Saving the Nation: the era of the May Fourth Movement



Erasing the past: iconoclasm and the destruction of tradition



Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers



Making a stand: the lure and limits of democracy Epilogue The Legacy of May Fourth