Author : David Scott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0791477428
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Author : Haijian Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1107069874
A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.
Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0231148909
Wang follows the Chinese Communist Party's ideological re-education of the public through the exploitation of China's humiliating modern history, tracking the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, re-establish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era.
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0307961745
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0143800361
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French explores China's betrayal by the West, the charismatic advocates it sent to the conference and the hugely significant May Fourth Movement that resulted from the treaty.
Author : Guangqian Peng
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 9787801378927
Author : Cheng Nien
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802145167
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Author : Joseph Babb
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781440846908
Mao Zedong and the Communists and Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists fought from 1927 until 1949 in an internecine struggle for control of China, and the fight against Japan in World War II was a catalyst for the expanded civil war that followed. Imperialism, revolution, and war with Japan are three vectors critical to understanding China today. The leadership of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until now has been determined to a great extent by the "Century of Humiliation," recognized as 1839-1949, during which time foreign powers occupied and pillaged this great civilization. This book provides background, context, and summaries of military campaigns fought by the Chinese from 1937 to 1941, when they were virtually alone in the war, and from 1942 to 1945, when the United States and Great Britain joined them as allies. In addition to providing a detailed and engrossing narrative of China's internal struggles and external prerogatives during the Second World War, the book analyzes new scholarship on key battles, re-evaluates the performance of Chiang Kai-shek and other key actors, and argues that China's role in the Allied victory in the Pacific has been underplayed.
Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783609257
"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the dominant power in Asia. From the Mekong River Basin to the Central Asian steppe, China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. By setting up new regional financial institutions, Beijing is challenging the post-World War II order established under the watchful eye of Washington. And by funding and building roads, railways, ports and power lines-a New Silk Road across Eurasia and through the South China Sea and Indian Ocean-China aims to draw its neighbours ever tighter into its embrace. Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, China's Asian Dream offers a fresh perspective on the rise of China' and asks: what does it means for the future of Asia?
Author : Israel Epstein
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN :
