num_pages: 144
description: A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern worldChinas emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic cultural and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nations great rejuvenation a story narrated as the return of China to its rightful place at the center of the world. In Chinas Revolutions in the Modern World historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that Chinas contemporary emergence is best seen not as a return but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist anti-imperialist cultural and socialist revolutions to todays capitalist-inflected Communist State modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle in mass democratic movements and global war in socialism and anti-socialism in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through Chinas successive revolutions the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.
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title: China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History
publisher: Verso