The intellectual in modern Chinese history
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The intellectual in modern Chinese history
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-364) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous China' since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cheek surveys the changing terrain of intellectual life over this transformative century in Chinese history to enable readers to understand a particular figure, idea or debate. The map provides coordinates to track different times, different social worlds and key concepts. The historical method focuses on context and communities during six periods to make sense of ideas, institutions and individual thinkers across the century. Together they provide a memorable account of the scenes and protagonists, and arguments and ideas, of intellectuals and public life in modern China.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: for the public good
- 1. Reform: making China fit the world (1895-1915)
- 2. Revolution: awakening new China (1915-35)
- 3. Rejuvenation: organizing China (1936-56)
- 4. Revolutionary revival: overthrowing the lords of nation-building (1957-76)
- 5. Reviving reform: correcting revolutionary errors (1976-95)
- 6. Rejuvenation: securing the Chinese dream (1996-2015)
- Conclusion: intellectuals, China and the world
- Who's who: intellectuals featured in the main text
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index.
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