Research Catalog

Title

The search for modern China : a documentary collection / edited by Pei-kai Cheng, Michael Lestz, with Jonathan D. Spence.

Publication

New York : Norton, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cheng, Pei-kai
• Lestz, Michael Elliot
• Spence, Jonathan D.

Description

xx, 531 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume is a collection of primary source documents and is a companion to the text: The Search for Modern China, 2nd edition. The documents range from the essential political works to the less standard ones that reflect everyday life, the family, social networks, and cultural life.

Subject

• China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > Sources
• China > History > 20th century > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-531).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Late Ming -- The Manchu conquest -- Kangxi's consolidation -- Yongzheng's authority --Chinese Society and the reign of Qianlong -- China and the eighteenth century world -- The first clash with the West -- The crisis within -- Restoration through reform -- New tensions in the late Qing -- The end of the dynasty -- The new Republic -- "A road is made" -- The fractured alliance -- The Guomindang in power -- Communist survival -- World War II -- The fall of the Guomindang state -- The birth of the People's Republic -- Planning the new society -- Deepening the revolution -- The Cultural Revolution -- Reopening the doors -- Redefining revolution -- Levels of power -- Testing the limits -- Century's end.

ISBN

0393973727 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98044315^

OCLC

• 39936620
• SCSB-10262254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library