Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History / Edition 3

by R. Keith Schoppa

Overview

Appropriate as a main text for courses in modern Chinese history, politics, society, and culture; also suitable as a supplementary text for courses in East Asian civilization, world history, and world civilization.

Unlike other texts on modern Chinese history, which tend to be either encyclopedic or too pedantic, Revolution and Its Past : Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History, 3/e, is comprehensive but concise, focused on the most recent scholarship, and written in a style that engages students from beginning to end. The Third Edition uses the theme of identities--of the nation itself and of the Chinese people--to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the early twenty-first century. In so doing, it explores the range of identities that China has chosen over time and those that outsiders have attributed to China and its people, showing how, as China rapidly modernizes, the issue of Chinese identity in the modern world looms large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205726912
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2010
Series:	MySearchLab Series for History Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

R. Keith Schoppa, Loyola College in Maryland

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on Pronunciation Part 1 From the Heights to the Depths: Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780–1901 1 Identities 2 Chinese, Manchus, and Others 3 The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity 4 An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitments to Traditional Chinese Identities 5 Crises and Choices 6 The Devastating Nineties: Destroying Traditional Identities Part 2 "No Checking the Tides of Change": Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901–1928 7 Revolutionaries: Manchu and Anti-Manchu 8 Selecting Identities: The Early Republic 9 Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement 10 Drawing the Sword of Opposition: Identity Increasingly Politicized Part 3 Revolution and Identity: Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928–1960 11 Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade 12 Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s 13 A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, The 1920s and 1930s 14 The Sino–Japanese War, 1937–1945 15 Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China’s Identity, 1945–1949 16 Paths to the Future 17 Coming Unglued Part 4 From "Politics in Command" to the Glory of Getting Rich: Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961–2018 18 Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 19 Reforms and Reactions, 1978–1995 20 The Economic Miracle and Its Shadows, 1992–2018 21 Whither China? 2008–2018 22 Nationalism and Globalization, 1988–2018 23 A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s Pronunciation Guide Index