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Making China Modern
Author | : Klaus Mühlhahn |
Publsiher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674737358 |
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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.
Modern China A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Rana Mitter |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191578793 |
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China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction offers the reader with no previous knowledge of China a variety of ways to understand the world's most populous nation, giving a short, integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics and art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China 1857 1927
Author | : Ryan Dunch |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300080506 |
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He shows how Chinese Protestants, with a distinctive vision for constituting China as a modern nation-state, contributed to the dissolution of the imperial regime, enjoyed unprecedented popularity following the 1911 revolution, and then saw their dreams for social and political change dashed.".
The Making of Modern China
Author | : Jing Liu |
Publsiher | : Stone Bridge Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781611729276 |
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"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." —Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial China The fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly productive Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus under the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. The book also addresses Wang Yangming's School of Mind and the painful process of modernization and conflict with the West and Japan, including the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion. Includes timeline. Jing Liu is a Beijing- and Davis, CA–based designer and entrepreneur who uses his artistry to tell the story of China.
The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China
Author | : Morris L. BIAN |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674020931 |
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When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise--bureaucratic governance, management and incentive mechanisms, and the provision of social services and welfare--developed in China during the war years 1937-1945.
Making Saints in Modern China
Author | : David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780190494568 |
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Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.
Making Religion Making the State
Author | : Yoshiko Ashiwa,David L. Wank |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804758413 |
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This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China.
The Search for Modern China
Author | : Pei-kai Cheng,Michael Elliot Lestz,Jonathan D. Spence |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393973727 |
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This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture.