Making China Modern : From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping /

Mühlhahn, Klaus

Making China Modern : From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping / Klaus Mühlhahn - Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019 - (717 p.)

Part 1. The rise and fall of Qing China: Age of Glory: 1644-1800 -- Reordering the Chinese world: 1800-1870 -- Late Qing predicaments: 1870-1900 -- Part 2. Chinese revolutions: Upending the empire: 1900-1919 -- Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920-1937 -- China at war: 1938-1948 -- Part 3. Remaking China: Socialist transformation: 1949-1955 -- Leaping ahead: 1955-1965 -- Overthrowing everything: 1966-1976 -- Part 4. China rising -- Reform and opening: 1977-1989 -- Overall advance: 1990-2012 -- Ambitions and anxieties: contemporary China

Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.--

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