Twentieth-Century China New Approaches

Name: Twentieth-Century China New Approaches
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ISBN: 9780415195041

ISBN-10: 0415195047

ISBN-13: 9780415195041

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

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This is a revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters in this volume reflect a move away from a Western-centred analysis of Chinese history, and take account of the wealth of new archival material that has been made accessible over the last decade.

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction




The Shape of a Century



"Reflections on a Watershed Date: The 1949 Divide in Chinese History"




"Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution"




"Toward a Chinese Feminism: A Personal Story"




Going Local



"Newspapers and Nationalism in Rural China 1890-1929"




"The Contours of Revolutionary Change in a Chinese County, 1900-1950"




"Perspectives on the Chinese Communist Revolution"




"Suspect History and the Mass Line: Another 'Yan'an Way'"




Symbolic Turns



"The Language of Liberation: Gender and Jiefang in early Chinese Communist Party Discourse"




"Revolutionary Rudeness: The Language of Red Guards and Rebel Workers in China's Cultural Revolution"




Political Legitimacy at the Century's End



Tiananmen 1989: background and consequences




The year of living anxiously: China's 1999