Research Catalog

Title

China's quest for modernization : a historical perspective / edited by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Wang Xi.

Publication

Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, c1997.

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Additional Authors

• Wakeman, Frederic E.
• Wang, Xi, 1955-

Description

xxii, 383 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Research papers and policy studies ; 41

Uniform Title

Research papers and policy studies ; 41.

Subject

• China > History > 19th century > Congresses
• China > History > 20th century > Congresses
• China > Politics and government > 20th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Revised papers presented at a conference held in Shanghai, May 25-30, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Approaches to the study of modern Chinese history: external versus internal causations / Wang Xi -- Middle county radicalism: the May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou / Wen-Hsin Yeh -- Evolution of modern Chinese society from the perspective of population changes, 1840-1949 / Zhang Kaimin -- Historical demography in late imperial China: recent research results and implications / James Lee -- Modernization and the structure of the Chinese economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Madeleine Zelin.
• New approach to China's century of great transformation, 1840s-1940s / Luo Rongqu -- Western learning and social transmutation in the late Qing / Chen Jiang -- Dowager Empress Cixi and Toshmichi: a comparative study of modernization in China and Japan / Ding Richu -- Political parties, party conflicts, and society in early Republican China / Yang Liqiang -- Intercultural connections and Chinese development: external and internal spheres of modern China's foreign relations / William C. Kirby.
• Emergence and development of China's modern capitalist enterprises / Zhang Guohui -- Popular protest and political progress in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Power structure and modernization policies in twentieth-century China / Marie-Claire Bergère -- Influence of Shanghai's modernization on the economy of the Yangzi Valley / Zhang Zhongli and Pan Junxiang -- State and civil society in the history of Chinese modernity / Prasenjit Duara.
• Civil society in late imperial and modern China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Issues in the evolution of modern China in East Asian comparative perspective / Joshua A. Fogel.

ISBN

1557290571

LCCN

^^^97009092^

OCLC

36458246

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library