China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History
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- Synopsis
- A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern worldChina&’s 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 nation&’s &“great rejuvenation,&” a story narrated as the return of China to its &“rightful&” place at the center of the world. In China&’s Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China&’s 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 today&’s 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 China&’s successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781788735612
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781788735599
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Date of Addition:
- 01/28/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Rebecca E. Karl
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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