A bitter revolution : China's struggle with the modern world /

Main Author: Mitter, Rana, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Making of the modern world.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology -- Pronunciation, Transliterations, and Names -- PART I: SHOCK -- 1. Flashpoint: 4 May 1919: The Making of a New China -- Why was May Fourth Important? -- The Fall of the Chinese Empire -- Uneasy Birth: The Chinese Republic -- 2. A Tale of Two Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and the May Fourth Generation -- Beijing: Intellectual Centre of the Movement -- Shanghai: China's Modern Challenge -- People: The May Fourth Generation -- Subcultures -- 3. Experiments in Happiness: Life and Love in New Culture China -- New Classes, New Opportunities -- Print, Commerce, and Culture -- Love, Labour, and Liberty -- Ask Taofen! -- The May Fourth Entrepreneur -- Saving the Nation, Making a Profit -- End of an Era? -- 4. Goodbye Confucius: New Culture, New Politics -- Iconoclasm -- Goodbye Confucius? -- China's Road to Nationalism -- Internationalism, Cosmopolitism, and Nationalism -- Looking East in Europe -- Not Just West and East: Thinking Beyond Europe -- Japan's Promise, Japan's Menace -- Party Politics -- The Communists -- The Nationalists -- Nationalists and Communists, United and Divided -- The Question of Woman -- Conclusion: Goodbye May Fourth? -- PART II: AFTERSHOCK -- 5. A Land of Death: Darkness over China -- China Changes Shape, 1931-7 -- The Choices of the May Fourth Generation -- China Falls Apart, 1937-45 -- War and Confrontation -- The New World -- The Cold War -- The Great Leap Forward -- Conclusion: May Fourth in Abeyance -- 6. Tomorrow the Whole World Will Be Red: The Cultural Revolution and the Distortions of May Fourth -- Considering the Cultural Revolution -- What was the Cultural Revolution? -- The Cold War and the Cultural Revolution -- Life and Death during the Red Guard Period -- Changing the Guard -- May Fourth or Not? -- The Cold War and the Romance of Technology -- Divisions: Red, Black, Men, Women -- Conclusion: A Strange May Fourth -- 7. Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers: Reform and the 'New May Fourth' -- The Late Cold War -- Life and Liberty in the 'New Era' -- Xiahai: 'Jumping into the Sea' of the New Society -- What Sort of Crisis? -- The Culture Fever Debates -- The Ugly Chinaman and Heshang -- Echoes of May Fourth: The Different Crises -- Tian'anmen and the End of an Era -- The Nature of the New Era: Towards Chinese Democracy? -- 8. Learning to Let Go: The May Fourth Legacy in the New Millennium -- The Two Cities Revisited -- Coping with the Past -- New Thinking -- Across the Straits -- Searching for a New Story -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Last Page. 
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