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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Making of the

A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Making of the Modern World) Paperback - 2005

by Mitter, Rana

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  • Title A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Making of the Modern World)
  • Author Mitter, Rana
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-08-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001619529
  • ISBN 9780192806055 / 019280605X
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.26 x 0.8 in (23.67 x 15.90 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.06

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In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this "New Culture movement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China's recent romance with space-age technology.

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Rana Mitter is Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College. In addition to many books and journal articles, Mitter has contributed to documentaries on the History Channel and is involved in a forthcoming documentary on Kublai Khan.

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