Michael Dillon

China

A Modern History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 252mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1050g
• ISBN-13: 9780755602612
• Artikelnr.: 59413302

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Rise and Fall of the Chinese Empire
2. China and the West: The Road to the Opium War
3. Taiping, Nain and Muslim Uprisings (1850-1884)
4. Restoration and Colonisation (1861-1884)
5. Boxer Rising and Imperial Decline (1899-1911)
6. The Struggle for the Republic of China (1911-1916)
7. May Fourth Movement, Communists and Nationalists (1917-1924)
8. Northern Expedition and United Front (1923-1927)
9. Nanjing Expedition and Long March (11927-1937)
10. Japanese Invasion, Second United Front and Civil war (1937-1949)
Interlude
11. Liberation and People's Republic of China (1949-1954)
12. Agriculture, Industry, Marriage Reform and the Intelligentsia (1950-1965)
13. Great Leap Forward (1958-1965)
14. Cultural Revolution (1966-1980)
15. Modernising and Opening China
16. Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia
17. Hong Kong and Taiwan
18. China after Deng Xiaoping
19. Xi Jinping and the New Authoritarianism
Biographical notes
Further reading
Index

Rezensionen

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 'an indispensable introduction to modern Chinese history.' CHOICE