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Modern China

by Moise, Edwin

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3rd

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9780582772779

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058277277X

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

5/22/2008

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Pearson

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Summary

The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically doctrinaire socialist tyranny to almost doctrineless social-capitalism, China has experienced political, cultural and economic disintegration, reunion, and revolution on an unprecedented scale.

List of maps	p. viii
List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introductory note: Chinese names and Chinese geography	p. 1
Writing Chinese names	p. 1
Regional geography	p. 4
The Chinese past	p. 7
The birth of China	p. 10
Confucianism	p. 11
Legalism	p. 13
Daoism	p. 14
The unification of China	p. 16
The coming of Buddhism	p. 18
The later dynasties	p. 20
Government and society under the Qing	p. 23
Study questions	p. 28
The collapse of the old order	p. 29
The first Western impact	p. 29
Internal problems	p. 33
Foreign pressure increases	p. 38
The Revolution of 1911	p. 44
Yuan Shikai and the warlord era	p. 47
The May Fourth Movement and the New Culture Movement	p. 51
Study questions	p. 53
The Communist Party and the First United Front	p. 54
The coming of Communism	p. 55
The First United Front	p. 58
The Communist-Guomindang split	p. 64
Study questions	p. 68
The Nanjing decade, 1927-37	p. 69
The Guomindang government at Nanjing	p. 69
The Jiangxi Soviet	p. 74
The Long March	p. 84
The Japanese threat	p. 88
The Second United Front	p. 90
Study questions	p. 91
World war and Communist victory	p. 92
The war begins	p. 92
Communism, nationalism, and the 'New Democracy'	p. 97
Chiang and the United States	p. 100
The 'Dixie Mission'	p. 104
The Japanese surrender	p. 105
The return to land reform	p. 112
The final Communist victory	p. 117
Study questions	p. 121
The People's Republic of China, 1949-57	p. 122
Reform in the countryside	p. 124
Into the cities	p. 128
The transition to socialism	p. 131
Ideological remoulding and the 'Hundred Flowers'	p. 135
The international position of the PRC	p. 138
Study questions	p. 144
The Great Leap and the great split	p. 145
The Great Leap Forward	p. 145
The Sino-Soviet split	p. 151
Problems along the borders	p. 155
Dispute in Beijing	p. 159
Study questions	p. 164
The Cultural Revolution	p. 165
1966: 'To rebel is justified!'	p. 169
The years of chaos: 1967-68	p. 177
The initial results	p. 184
Aftermath: 1969-76	p. 186
Left and Right	p. 188
International relations	p. 193
Study questions	p. 196
The post-Mao reforms	p. 197
The deaths of Zhou and Mao	p. 197
The question of individual freedom	p. 206
China and the world	p. 210
Economic reforms	p. 213
Study questions	p. 219
The era of Deng Xiaoping	p. 220
The background to the democracy movement	p. 222
Tiananmen	p. 224
Politics after Tiananmen	p. 229
Foreign relations	p. 231
Hong Kong and Taiwan	p. 234
Facing the future: population pressures	p. 237
Study questions	p. 239
The boom years	p. 241
Economic reform once again	p. 241
Money to spend	p. 245
Massive inequalities	p. 248
A stable political system?	p. 253
Foreign relations	p. 257
Hong Kong and Taiwan	p. 259
Issues of religion	p. 261
Issues of freedom	p. 263
China's prospects	p. 266
Study questions	p. 268
Suggestions for further reading	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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