Revolution and its past : identities and change in modern Chinese history /: identities and change in modern Chinese history. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: R. Keith Schoppa.
• Other Names: Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943-
• Contents: Part 1: From the Heights to the Depths: Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780-1901 -- 1. Identities -- 2. Chinese and Manchus -- 3. The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity -- 4. An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitments to Traditional Chinese Identities -- 5. The Power of Traditional Cultural Identity: Chinese Reactions to Continuing Threats -- 6. The Devastating Nineties: Destroying Traditional Identities -- Part 2: "No Checking the Tides of Change": Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901-1928 -- 7. Revolutionaries: Manchu and Anti- Manchu -- 8. Selecting Identities: The Early Republic -- 9. Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement -- 10. Drawing the Sword of Opposition: Identity Increasingly Politicized -- Part 3: Revolution and Identity: Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928-1960 -- 11. Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade -- 12. Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s -- 13. A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, The 1920s and the 1930s -- 14. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- 15. Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China's Identity, 1945-1949 -- 16. Paths to the Future -- 17. Coming Unglued -- Part 4: From Politics in Command: to the Glory of Getting Rich: Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961-2009 -- 18. Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- 19. Economics in Command: The End of Communism and the Flourishing of "Market Socialism" -- 20. "One World, One Dream": China's New World -- 21. A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan Since the 1970s.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 951.033; Revolutions -- China -- History; National characteristics, Chinese; National characteristics, Chinese; Revolutions; Identität -- China -- Geschichte Neuzeit; HISTORY / Asia / China; China -- History -- 19th century; China -- History -- 20th century; China; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351219884
• Related ISBNs: 135121988X; 9780205726912; 0205726917
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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