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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mühlhahn, Klaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (670 p.)

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 rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Timeline: China, 1644–2017 -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Rise and Fall of Qing China -- Introduction -- 1. Age of Glory: 1644–1800 -- 2. Reordering the Chinese World: 1800–1870 -- 3. Late Qing Predicaments: 1870–1900 -- Part 2: Chinese Revolutions -- Introduction -- 4. Upending the Empire: 1900–1919 -- 5. Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920–1937 -- 6. China at War: 1937–1948 -- Part 3: Remaking China -- Introduction -- 7. Socialist Transformation: 1949–1955 -- 8. Leaping Ahead: 1955–1960 -- 9. Overthrowing Everything: 1961–1976 -- Part 4: China Rising -- Introduction -- 10. Reform and Opening: 1977–1989 -- 11. Overall Advance: 1990–2012 -- 12. Ambitions and Anxieties: Contemporary China -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index