China since 1919
Subtitle: Revolution and reform : a sourcebook
By: edited by Alan Lawrance.
Contributors: Lawrance, Alan.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Sources; China -- History -- 1949- -- Sources; China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949; China -- History -- 1949-
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Revolution and reform :
Description: "Has China's modernization over the last 100 years depended on turning to the West? What new problems has growing prosperity created for China? This sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 mainly from the viewpoints of participants. Over 150 extracts from political statements, telegrams, speeches, memoirs, letters, and poems illuminate the historical development of China from the May 4th Movement onwards." "The collection includes classic documents as well as less accessible extracts, including a number only recently in the public domain. Anyone interested in the modern history of China will find China Since 1919 an invaluable source of information."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Cultural Renaissance; title: The United Front and its Breakdown; title: Mao-Zhu in the Countryside and the Long March; title: The Nanjing Decade (1927-1937) and World War Two (1937-1945); title: Yan'an: the Formative Years; title: Civil War and Communist Victory; title: The Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Korean War and the Early Years of the People's Republic, 1949-1955; title: The Hundred Flowers; title: The Great Leap Forward; title: The Cultural Revolution; title: Years of Transition; title: Modernization in the 1980s; title: Defining the Chinese Nation: Hong Kong, Tibet and the Minorities; title: China Enters the Twenty-First Century