The Resource China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history, Rebecca E Karl
China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history, Rebecca E Karl
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781788735599
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- China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history
- Title
- China's revolutions in the modern world
- Title remainder
- a brief interpretive history
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca E Karl
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Karl, Rebecca E
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- non fiction
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- Revolutions
- China
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- China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history, Rebecca E Karl
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 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
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- on1124780148
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9781788735599
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- (OCoLC)1124780148
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- China's revolutions in the modern world : a brief interpretive history, Rebecca E Karl
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1124780148
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9781788735599
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1124780148
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