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A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback)

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rana MitterSeries:Making of the Modern WorldPublish date:2005-08-25Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192806055ISBN-10:019280605XUPC:9780192806055Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, MilitaryBook Topic:China, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.32 x 6.26 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.4308Product ID:SC365B441K
In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this "New Culture movement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China's recent romance with space-age technology.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192806055ISBN-10:019280605XUPC:9780192806055Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, MilitaryBook Topic:China, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.32 x 6.26 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.4308Product ID:SC365B441K
Rana Mitter is Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College. In addition to many books and journal articles, Mitter has contributed to documentaries on the History Channel and is involved in a forthcoming documentary on Kublai Khan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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