China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation
Author : Jean Chesneaux
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jean Chesneaux
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : W. S. K. Waung
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 162040348X
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine. “The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.” So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the “liberation” and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a “carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind.” Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century.
Author : Edwin John Dingle
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1912
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : K. S. Liew
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520331613
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author : Jundu Xue
Publisher : Joint Publishing, Company, Limited (Hong Kong)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Edwin John Dingle
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1912
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Wu Yuzhang
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : History
ISBN : 089875531X
The Revolution of 1911 was the revolution which overthrew the feudal system of monarchy in China. Wu Yuzhang was a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and personally took part in this revolution.In this book he puts down his own fighting experience, and analyses the revolution with keen insight and the aid of a rich fund of material. His answers to the following questions are especially instructive: Why did the revolution break out? What were the causes of its achievements and eventual failure? What part did the people play in this revolution? This book will help the reader to have a deeper understanding of this momentous revolution in China's history.
Author : Xiaowei Zheng
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1503601099
“A fascinating story . . . worth the attention of every student of modern China.” —The Journal of Asian Studies China’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.
Author : L. Eve Armentrout Ma
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824880145
The relationship of overseas Chinese to the Chinese revolution of 1911 has always been viewed in light of their involvement with Sun Yat-sen. Of equal significance, however, was the growth and development in overseas communities of the radical reform party of K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'ich'ao, pro-Sun revolutionaries, and other political groups greatly influenced the involvement of Chinese immigrants in the 1911 revolution and produced substantial changes in the overseas communities themselves. Chinese in the Americas, especially North America and Hawaii, provide a good illustration of these points but until now have received little attention. Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns provides a comprehensive and original treatment of this dimension of Asian American politics. L. Eve Armentrout Ma has judiciously analyzed the abundant documentation on the development and functioning of the reform and revolutionary parties, showing the interactions between the two parties and with pre-existing social organizations such as hui-kuan, surname associations, and Triad lodges. Particularly important is her use of the contemporary Chinese-language newspapers, a rich source of information on the period.