Revolution and its past identities and change in modern Chinese history

Schoppa, R. Keith

Revolution and its past identities and change in modern Chinese history Identities and change in modern Chinese history R. Keith Schoppa - 2nd ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson Prentice Hall c2006 - xii, 484 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identities -- Chinese and Manchus -- The Opium War and the treaty system : challenges to Chinese identity -- An age of rebellion : defiance of and commitments to traditional Chinese identities -- The power of traditional cultural identity : Chinese reactions to continuing threats -- The devastating nineties : destroying traditional identities -- The revolutionary Manchus -- Selecting identities : the early Republic -- Constructing a new cultural identity : the May Fourth Movement -- Drawing the sword of opposition : identity increasingly politicized -- Revolution in retreat : the Nanjing Decade -- Revolution reborn : the Communists in the 1930s -- A rising clash of national identities : China and Japan, the 1920s and 1930s -- The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Toward daybreak : struggling for China's identity, 1945-1949 -- Paths to the future -- Coming unglued -- Death dance : the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- The end of communism -- The dawn of a new century -- A question of identity : the Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s.

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Revolutions
National characteristics, Chinese.
History -- Qing -- 20th century -- Revolutions