China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation
Author : Jean Chesneaux
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
The Tragedy of Liberation
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1408837595
Book Description
The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum 'Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the world's most important revolutions' Guardian 'Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order' Timothy Snyder In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
Reins of Liberation
Author : Xiaoyuan Liu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804754262
Book Description
The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. He thus continues the argument he made in Frontier Passages that on its way to building a communist state, the CCP was confronted by a series of fundamental issues pertinent to China's transition to nation-statehood. The book's focus is on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Between the Revolution of 1911 and the Communists' triumph in 1949, the course of the Mongolian question best illustrates the genesis, clashes, and convergence of Chinese and Mongolian national identities and geopolitical visions.
China's Continuous Revolution
Author : Lowell Dittmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520065994
Book Description
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in China
Author : Lin Chun
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1788735633
Book Description
A history of revolutionary China in the 20th century China under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatness. But is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" just neoliberal capitalism under another name? And, if so, how can China reclaim the heritage of the Revolution in this its 70th anniversary? In this panoramic study of Chinese history in the twentieth century, Lin Chun argues that the paradoxes of contemporary Chinese society do not merely echo the tensions of modernity or capitalist development. Instead, they are a product of both the contradictions rooted in its revolutionary history, and the social and political consequences of its post-socialist transition. Revolution and Counterrevolution in China charts China's epic revolutionary trajectory in search of a socialist alternative to the global system, and asks whether market reform must repudiate and overturn the revolution and its legacy.
The Tragedy of Liberation
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1408837579
Book Description
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dik�tter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
China from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution
Author : Jean Chesneaux
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1976
Category : China
ISBN : 9780394709345
Book Description
Discussions of key events, developments, and personalities in China between 1840 and 1911 are followed by selected illustrative documents. Glossary. Bibliogs
The Age of Openness
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520258815
Book Description
Accessible to general readers and full of valuable insights for specialists, China before Mao presents a fresh way of approaching the country's modern history and shows that in politics, society, culture, and the economy, China was at its most diverse on the eve of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
China's Republic
Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139461885
Book Description
Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.
