The search for modern China
Subtitle: a documentary collection
By: edited by Janet Chen, Pei-Kai Cheng, and Michael Lestz, with Jonathan D. Spence
Edition: Third edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9780393920857
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: "The Third Edition, entirely revised and featuring new scholarship throughout, brings the history of modern China up-to-date through the drastic changes of the last decade, including China's vast social and economic transformation, participation in the world economy, and strong political and military influence regionally and globally, all with the remnant Communist Party continuing to exercise political control. The updated final chapter examines these changes alongside the persistent tensions China continues to face: social tensions connected to the disparities in wealth between the cities and the countryside; struggles to maintain central authority in the far west; tensions between minority ethnic groups and the majority Han Chinese; and protests over control of Tibet and Tibetan populations in China."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Primary source reader may be used with new edition of textbook of the same name.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-625).
Table of contents: title: The late Ming; title: The Manchu conquest; title: Kangxi's consolidation; title: Yongzheng's authority; title: Chinese society and the reign of Qianlong; title: China and the eighteenth-century world; title: The first clash with the West; title: The crisis within; title: Restoration through reform; title: New tensions in the late Qing; title: The end of the dynasty; title: The new republic; title: "A road is made"; title: The fractured alliance; title: The Guomindang in power; title: Communist survival; title: World War II; title: The fall of the Guomindang state; title: The birth of the People's Republic; title: Planning the new society; title: Deepening the revolution; title: The Cultural Revolution; title: Reopening the doors; title: Redefining revolution; title: Levels of power; title: Testing the limits; title: Century's end; title: Breakthrough?