Revolution and its past : identities and change in modern Chinese history / R. Keith Schoppa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--19th century.

China.

History.

China--History--20th century.

Revolutions--China--History.

Revolutions.

National characteristics, Chinese.

Physical Description:

xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Identities and change in modern Chinese history

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2006]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0131930397

OCLC:

57506561