Research Catalog

Title

Rebellions and revolutions : China from the 1800s to 2000 / Jack Gray.

Author

Gray, Jack, 1926-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

lxxi, 493 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is a study of China from the 1800s to the dawn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its emergence in world affairs since the Communist revolution of 1949. This new edition examines China's rapid economic growth at the end of the twentieth century as well as recent developments in Chinese foreign policy, and provides a revised account of the Tiananmen Square incident. It also includes a fully updated chronology and further reading section. As such, it will prove indispensable reading to a new generation of students of Chinese and Asian history, as well as to the general reader."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Short Oxford history of the modern world

Uniform Title

Short Oxford history of the modern world

Alternative Title

China from the 1800s to 2000

Subject

• Geschichte 1800-200
• Geschichte 1800-2000
• 1800-1999
• 1800-2000
• China > History > 19th century
• China > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-471) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The traditional society --- 2. The opening of China --- 3. The Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 --- 4. Conflict with the Western powers, 1843-1861 --- 5. The self-strengthening movement --- 6. Reform and revolution --- 7. The Chinese economy --- 8. The war-lord era --- 9. The radicalization of Chinese politics --- 10. The rise of Chiang Kaishek --- 11. The Nationalist regime, 1928-1937 --- 12. The Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934 --- 13. The Chinese Communist Party, 1935-1949 --- 14. The Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1957 --- 15. The Great Leap Forward --- 16. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I --- 17. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, II --- 18. China since the death of Mao --- 19. Reaction and renewed reform ---- Conclusion: The modernization of China.

ISBN

0198700695 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002027408

OCLC

• 50314532
• SCSB-10845656

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library