Rebellions and revolutions : China from the 1800s to the 1980s
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Rebellions and revolutions : China from the 1800s to the 1980s
(The short Oxford history of the modern world)
Oxford University Press, 1990
- :
- : pbk
Available at / 37 libraries
-
Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization遡
: pbk||951||Gr3||11444221
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
: pbk ISBN 9780198215769
Description
This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party revolution of 1949. It takes the story up to recent, tragic events in Tiananmen Square. Dr Gray addresses a series of crucial questions: why did Imperial China collapse? Why was she so slow to recover? Did "economic imperialism" help or hinder that recovery? What enabled the Chinese Communist Party to gain power? Has China created a specifically Chinese model of development, and if so, is this model relevant to the future of socialism, and to the problems of less developed countries?
Table of Contents
- The traditional society
- the opening of China
- the Taiping rebellion, 1850-1864
- conflict with the western powers, 1843-1861
- the self-stengthening movement
- reform and revolution
- the Chinese economy
- the war-load era
- the radicalization of Chinese politics
- the rise of Chiang Kaishek
- the Nationalist regime, 1928-1937
- the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934
- the Chinese Communist Party, 1935-1949
- the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1957
- the Great Leap Forward
- the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I
- the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II
- China since the death of Mao
- the road to Tiananmen.
- Volume
-
: ISBN 9780199130764
Description
This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party revolution of 1949. It takes the story up to recent, tragic events in Tiananmen Square. Dr Gray addresses a series of crucial questions: why did Imperial China collapse? Why was she so slow to recover? Did "economic imperialism" help or hinder that recovery? What enabled the Chinese Communist Party to gain power? Has China created a specifically Chinese model of development, and if so, is this model relevant to the future of socialism, and to the problems of less developed countries? Jack Gray's accessible analysis will prove indispensable to all students of Chinese and Asian history.
Table of Contents
- The traditional society
- the opening of China
- the Taiping rebellion, 1850-1864
- conflict with the western powers, 1843-1861
- the self-stengthening movement
- reform and revolution
- the Chinese economy
- the war-load era
- the radicalization of Chinese politics
- the rise of Chiang Kaishek
- the Nationalist regime, 1928-1937
- the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934
- the Chinese Communist Party, 1935-1949
- the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1957
- the Great Leap Forward
- the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I
- the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II
- China since the death of Mao
- the road to Tiananmen.
by "Nielsen BookData"