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Rise of Modern China

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ISBN-10: 0195125045

ISBN-13: 9780195125047

Edition: 6th 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Immanuel C.Y. Hsu

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This new edition of the classic history of modern China since the seventeenth century has been updated to examine the return of Hong Kong in 1997 and the upcoming return of Macao in 1999. In his new concluding chapter, Hs discusses the end of the last vestiges of foreign imperialism in China, as well as China's emergence as a regional and global superpower. US-China revalry and the prospect of unification between China and Taiwan are also considered. In addition, the furtherreadings sections have been entirely revised.
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Book details

List price: $139.99
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/9/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1136
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 3.806
Language: English

Prefaces
List of Maps
A Note on the Text
Major Chronological Periods
Conversion Tables
A Conceptual Framework of Modern China
The Persistence of Traditional Institutions, 1600-1800
The Rise and Splendor of the Ch'ing Empire
Political and Economic Institutions
Social and Intellectual Conditions
Foreign Relations
The Turn of the Dynastic Fortune: From Prosperity to Decline
Foreign Aggresion and Domestic Rebellions, 1800-1864
The Canton System of Trade
The Opium War
The Second Treaty Settlement
The Taiping Revolution and the Nien and Moslem Rebellions
Self-stregthening in an Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism
The Dynastic Revival and the Self-Stregthening Movement
Foreign Relations and Court Politics, 1861-80
Foreign Encroachment in Formosa, Sinkiang, and Annam
Acceleration of Imperialism: The Japanese Aggression in Korea and the ""Partition of China""
Reform and Revolution, 1898-1912
The Reform Movement of 1898
The Boxer Uprising, 1900
Reform and Constitutionalism at the End of the Ch'ing Period
Late Ch'ing Intellectual, Social, and Economic Changes with Special Reference to 1895-1911
The Ch'ing Period in Historical Perspective
Revolution, Republic, and Warlordism
Ideological Awakening and the War of Resistance
The Intellectual Revolution, 1917-23
National Unification Amidst Ideological Ferment and Anti-imperialistic Agitation
The Nationalist Government: A Decade of Challenge, 1928-37
The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-45
The Rise of the Chinese People's Republic
The Civil War, 1945-49
The People's Republic: It's First Decade
The Sino-Soviet Split
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The Fall of Lin Pao and Its Aftermath
China Rejoins the International Community
The Nationalist Rule on Taiwan
China After Mao: The Search for a New Order
The Smashing of the Gang of Four
Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's New Order
The Normalization of Relations Between China and the United States
The Four Modernizations
The End of the Maoist Age
Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
China In Transition, 1986-88: The Cultural Impact of the Open-Door Policy
Taiwan's ""Economic Miracle"" and the Prospect for Unification with Mainland China
The Violent Crackdown at T'ien-an-men Square, June 3-4, 1989
The Chinese Model of Development: Quasi-capitalism in a Political Dictatorship
The Rise of Cina
Illustration Credits
Index