Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to 2000This 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. This new edition examines economic growth, updates Chinese foreign policy, provides a revised account of the Tiananmen Incident, and brings the chronology completely up to date. |
Contents
List of maps and tables | xvii |
Chronology | xix |
Emperors of the late Qing dynasty | lxxiii |
The Imperial examination system | lxxiv |
Notes on Chinese names | lxxv |
1 The traditional society | 1 |
2 The opening of China | 22 |
3 The Taiping Rebellion 18501864 | 52 |
10 The rise of Chiang Kaishek | 211 |
11 The Nationalist regime 19281937 | 229 |
12 The Chinese Communist Party 19271934 | 247 |
13 The Chinese Communist Party 19351949 | 268 |
14 The Chinese Peoples Republic 19491957 | 285 |
15 The Great Leap Forward | 304 |
16 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution I | 324 |
17 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution II | 349 |
4 Conflict with the Western powers 18431861 | 77 |
5 The selfstrengthening movement | 101 |
6 Reform and revolution | 125 |
7 The Chinese economy | 150 |
8 The warlord era | 167 |
9 The radicalization of Chinese politics | 192 |
18 China since the death of Mao | 381 |
19 Reaction and renewed reform | 430 |
The modernization of China | 441 |
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