Revolution and its past : identities and change in modern Chinese history / R. Keith Schoppa.

TB3050/05
GBP 84.99

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identities -- Chinese and Manchus -- The opium war and the treaty system: challenges to Chinese identity -- An age of rebellion: defiance of and commitments to traditional Chinese identities -- Crises and choices -- The devastating nineties: destroying traditional identities -- Revolutionaries: Manchu and anti-Manchu -- Selecting identities: the early republic -- Constructing a new cultural identity: the May Fourth movement -- Drawing the sword of opposition: identity increasingly politicized -- Revolution in retreat: the Nanjing decade -- Revolution reborn: the Communists in the 1930s -- A rising clash of national identities: China and Japan, the 1920s and 1930s -- The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Toward daybreak: struggling for China's identity, 1945-1949 -- Paths to the future -- Coming unglued -- Death dance: the great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- Reforms and reactions, 1978-1995 -- The economic miracle and its shadows, 1992-2018 -- Whither China? 2008-2018 -- Nationalism and globalization -- A question of identity: the Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s.

"Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018. A fascinating and dramatic narrative, it compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of how the Chinese as a people have struggled and continue to work to find their identity in the modern world. Updated throughout, supported by maps, images, tables and suggestions for further reading, and written in an engaging, concise and authoritative style, Revolution and Its Past is the ideal textbook for all students of the history of modern China"-- Provided by publisher.