Making China Modern : From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping /

Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mühlhahn, Klaus
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: England Cambridge 2019
Subjects:
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
China > History > Republic, 1912-1949.
China > History > 1949-
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The rise and fall of Qing China: Age of Glory: 1644-1800
  • Reordering the Chinese world: 1800-1870
  • Late Qing predicaments: 1870-1900
  • Part 2. Chinese revolutions: Upending the empire: 1900-1919
  • Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920-1937
  • China at war: 1938-1948
  • Part 3. Remaking China: Socialist transformation: 1949-1955
  • Leaping ahead: 1955-1965
  • Overthrowing everything: 1966-1976
  • Part 4. China rising
  • Reform and opening: 1977-1989
  • Overall advance: 1990-2012
  • Ambitions and anxieties: contemporary China.

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