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

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

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 his...

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Mühlhahn, Klaus,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (670 p.)
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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

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