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“A vivid account of how Chinese revolutionaries and intellectuals awakened China during the Republican Revolution. . . . Initially, Fitzgerald offers an interesting and detailed analysis of the process of awakening China . . . illustrated through contemporary developments in the fields of art and architecture, museums and medicine, fiction and essays, journalism and propaganda, political institutions, and mass organization. . . . Second, an important feature of Fitzgerald’s book is that the author develops a comparison between the Communists and the Nationalists, between Sun and Mao in their efforts to awaken China. . . . Third, not only does this book add to an understanding of the politics of mass awakening, it also contributes to a broader understanding of Chinese art history, ethics, and ethnography during the first three decades of this century.”—Journal of Asian Studies
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"Based on broad, accurate scholarship, this distinguished work provides a searching synthesis of a number of important themes in early twentieth-century Chinese history."—Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University"A vivid account of how Chinese revolutionaries and intellectuals awakened China during the Republican Revolution. . . . Initially, Fitzgerald offers an interesting and detailed analysis of the process of awakening China . . . illustrated through contemporary developments in the fields of art and architecture, museums and medicine, fiction and essays, journalism and propaganda, political institutions, and mass organization. . . . Second, an important feature of Fitzgerald's book is that the author develops a comparison between the Communists and the Nationalists, between Sun and Mao in their efforts to awaken China. . . . Third, not only does this book add to an understanding of the politics of mass awakening, it also contributes to a broader understanding of Chinese art history, ethics, and ethnography during the first three decades of this century."—Journal of Asian Studies
"This is a brilliant book. Anyone trying to grapple with the rise of China and the struggle for political liberalization there simply must read it."—Quadrant
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China in the first three decades of this century was a land in ferment, politically and culturally. The old imperial order was collapsing, and in the ensuing vacuum politicians, literary figures, and others struggled to redefine China and its people to meet dramatically changed circumstances. Fitzgerald (Asian studies, LaTrobe Univ., Australia) provides a panoramic, searching survey of that period. In readable prose, Fitzgerald describes Sun Yat-sen, his young subordinate Mao Zedong, famous writer Mao Dun, and a host of other less-well-remembered figures. There is a section of copious notes and an extensive bibliography that, although a minor point, does lack publisher information. Fitzgerald's synthesis of how definitions of nation and class evolved is a useful complement to general histories of to the many books on narrower aspects of that time. Recommended for academic libraries and interested general readers.-Charles V. Cowling, Drake Memorial Lib., SUNY-BrockportProduct Details
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