China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history / Rebecca E Karl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karl, Rebecca E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--China--History.

Revolutions.

China.

History.

China--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2020.

Summary:

"China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a story narrated as the return of China to its "rightful" place at the center of the world. In China's Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China's contemporary emergence is best seen not as a "return," but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today's capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle, in mass democratic movements and global war, in socialism and anti-socialism, in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through China's successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Taipings

The collapse of the Qing and the Republican revolution

The May Fourth Movement (1919) and Cultural Revolution

Competing revolutions in the Nanjing decade (1927-1937)

The 1949 revolution

The Cultural Revolution

1989 and its aftermath

Conclusion: 2019.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Karl, Rebecca E. China's revolutions in the modern world.

ISBN:

9781788735599

1788735595

OCLC:

1124780148