| Description |
xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Re-writing histories |
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Rewriting histories.
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| Contents |
Reflections on a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history / Paul A. Cohen -- Ten theses on the Chinese Revolution / Joseph W. Esherick -- Toward a Chinese feminism: a personal story / Lin Chun -- Newspapers and nationalism in rural China 1890-1929 / Henrietta Harrison -- Contours of revolutionary change in a Chinese county, 1900-1950 / R. Keith Schoppa -- Perspective on the Chinese Communist revolution / Kathleen Hartford, Steven M. Goldstein -- Suspect history and the mass line: another Yan'an Way / Chen Yung-Fa -- The Chinese language of liberation: gender and jiefang in early Chinese Communist Party discourse / Harriet Evans -- Revolutionary rudeness: the language of Red Guards and rebel workers in China's cultural Revolution / Elizabeth J. Perry, Li Xun -- Tianamen 1989: background and consequences / Marie-Claire Bergère -- The year of living anxiously: China's 1999 / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
| Summary |
"Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the field which has recently undergone considerable change. The four major parts of this Reader take into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history, political language, and the upheavals that punctuated the last dozen years of China's turbulent twentieth century." "The chapters reflect a move away from a Western-centered analysis of Chinese history and draw on the wealth of archival material made accessible over the last decade. They highlight in new and challenging ways important topics that have generated considerable excitement among historians. Subjects discussed include the watershed year of 1949, feminism, the revolutions, the discourse of the Communist Party, and patterns of popular protest in modern China." "This Reader will be indispensable to anyone interested in new approaches to the field of contemporary Chinese history."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
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| LC no. |
2002026874 |
| ISBN |
0415195039 |
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0415195047 |
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