| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 876 pages, 136 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 749-788) and index. |
| Summary |
The history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989. |
| Contents |
The Use of Pinyin -- Conquest and Consolidation -- The Late Ming -- The Glory of the Ming -- Town and Farm -- Corruption and Hardship -- The Ming Collapse -- The Manchu Conquest -- The Rise of the Qing -- Conquering the Ming -- Adapting to China -- Class and Resistance -- Kangxi's Consolidation -- The War of the Three Feudatories, 1673-1681 -- Taiwan and Maritime China -- Wooing the Intellectuals -- Defining the Borders -- A Mixed Legacy -- Yongzheng's Authority -- Qing Power and Taxation in the Countryside -- The Center and Channels of Power -- Moral Authority -- Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong -- Social Pressures and Population Growth -- "Like the sun at Midday" -- Eighteenth-Century Confucianism -- The Dream of the Red Chamber -- Qianlong's Later Years -- China and the Eighteenth-Century World -- Managing the Foreigners -- Aliens and Chinese Law -- Opium -- Western Images of China -- Fragmentation and Reform -- The First Clash with the West -- The Response of China's Scholars -- China's Political Response -- Britain's Military Response -- The New Treaty System -- The Crisis Within -- Social Dislocation North and South -- The Taiping -- Foreign Pressures and Marx's Views -- The Nian Rebellion -- Muslim Revolts -- Restoration through Reform -- Confucian Reform -- Defining Foreign Policy -- The Missionary Presence -- Overseas Chinese -- New Tensions in the Late Qing -- Self-Strengthening and the Japanese War -- The Reform Movement of 1898 -- Three Sides of Nationalism -- Emerging Forces -- The End of the Dynasty -- The Qing Constitution -- New Railways, New Army -- Nationalists and Socialists -- Qing Fall -- Envisioning State and Society -- The New Republic -- Experiment in Democracy -- The Rule of Yuan Shikai -- Militarists in China and Chinese in France -- The Political Thinking of Sun Yat-Sen -- "A Road Is Made" -- The Warning Voice of Social Darwinism -- The Promise of Marxism -- The Facets of May Fourth -- The Comintern and the Birth of the Ccp -- The Industrial Sector -- The Clash -- The Initial Alliance -- Launching the Northern Expedition -- Shanghai Spring -- Wuhan Summer, Canton Winter -- Experiments in Government -- The Power Base of Chiang Kai-Shek -- Mao Zedong and the Rural Soviets -- China and the United States -- China and Japan -- China and Germany -- The Drift to War -- The Long March -- The National Mood and Guomindang Ideology -- Crisis at Xi'an -- The Chinese Poor -- War and Revolution -- World War II -- The Loss of East China -- China Divided -- Chongqing and Yan'an, 1938-1941 -- Chongqing and Yan'an in the Widening War -- War's End -- The Fall of the Guomindang State -- The Japanese Surrender and the Marshall Mission -- Land Reform and the Manchurian Base -- The Losing Battle with Inflation -- Defeat of the Guomindang Armies -- The Birth of the People's Republic -- Countryside and Town, 1949-1950 -- The Structure of the New Government -- The Korean War -- Mass Party, Mass Campaigns -- Planning the New Society -- The First Five-Year Plan -- Foreign Policy and the National Minorities -- Army Reform -- The Hundred Flowers -- Deepening the Revolution -- The Great Leap Forward -- The Sino-Soviet Rift -- Political Investigation and "Socialist Education" -- The Cult of Mao and the Critics -- Launching the Cultural Revolution -- Party Retrenchment and the Death of Lin Biao -- Living in the World -- Reopening the Doors -- The United States and the Nixon Visit -- Attacking Confucius and Lin Biao -- Defining the Economy, 1974-1975 -- 1976: the Old Guard Dies -- Redefining Revolution -- The Four Modernizations -- The Fifth Modernization -- Taiwan and the Special Economic Zones -- "Truth From Facts" -- Levels of Power -- One Billion People -- Governing China in the 1980s -- The Problems of Prosperity, 1983-1984 -- Rebuilding the Law -- Testing the Limits -- Emerging Tensions in 1985 -- Democracy's Chorus -- Broadening the Base -- Social Strains -- The Breaking Point -- Map: China During the Late Ming -- Map: Contemporary China. |
| Subject |
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
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China -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1600-1989.
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| ISBN |
0393027082: $29.95 ($39.95 Can.) |
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9780393027082 |
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