China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949

By:

Peter Zarrow

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Asia's Transformations

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Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat to Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The text explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to; strengthen the state and the nation; democratize the political system; and build a fairer and more unified society. This book weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in depth themes central to China's transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies, and empirical historicism. Essential reading for both students and instructors alike, it draws a picture of the personalities, ideas and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades.

Author Biography:

Peter Zarrow is currently Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica,Taipei, having previously taught in the United States and Australia. His research focuses on the thought and culture of twentieth-century China, and he has authored works on Chinese anarchism, historiography, the 1911 Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, and other subjects.

Release date NZ

September 8th, 2005

Author

Peter Zarrow

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

3 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white

Pages

432

Series

Asia's Transformations

Dimensions

156x234x28

ISBN-13

9780415364478

Product ID

5247696

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