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Year: 2019
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ISBN 10: 113874218X

ISBN 13: 978-1138742185

Author:  R. Keith Schoppa 

Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.

A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of how the Chinese as a people have struggled and continue to work to find their identity in the modern world. Beginning in the last two decades of the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736–1795), the book provides a baseline that allows readers to understand China’s rapid decline in the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, and extends into the present day, a time when China has the second largest economy in the world and aims to become a leading global power by 2050. The vast changes that have swept over China between these times are probed through the lens of the broad and important theme of “identities.” This fourth edition has been updated throughout, providing a more thorough examination of recent history since 1960, and increasing coverage of such topics as “new Qing history,” frontier and ethnicity, women and their roles, environmental concerns and issues, and globalization.

Supported by maps, images, tables, online eResources and suggestions for further reading, and written in an engaging, concise, and authoritative style, Revolution and Its Past is the ideal textbook for all students of the history of modern China.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: From the Heights to the Depths – Challenges to Traditional Chinese Identities, 1780–1901

1. Identities

  • History and Identity

  • Associational Identities: Lineages and Families

  • Associational Identities: Social Connections

  • Associational Identities: Relations to the “Other”

  • Spatial Identities: Native Place

  • Spatial Identities: Village and Marketing Communities

  • Spatial Identities: Macroregions and Provinces

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

2. Chinese, Manchus, and Others

  • Patterns in the Early Qing

  • Preserving a Manchu Identity

  • Buying into Chinese Culture

  • Dealing with the Other

  • Identity and Change: The Qianlong Emperor in the Late Eighteenth Century

  • Identity Crisis

  • Emerging Problems

  • The Daoguang Emperor

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

3. The Opium War and the Treaty System: Challenges to Chinese Identity

  • The Early Western Role

  • China and the West: Mutual Perceptions

  • Opium: The Problem and the War

  • The Unequal Treaty System and Its Impact on Chinese Identity

  • The Missionary and Cultural Imperialism

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

4. An Age of Rebellion: Defiance of and Commitments to Traditional Chinese Identities

  • Traditional Rebellions

  • The Taiping War (1851–1864): Attempting to Revolutionize Identity

  • The Rebellion Takes Shape

  • The Taiping Revolution

  • Guerrilla Warfare: The Nian Rebellion (1853–1868)

  • Muslims versus Chinese: Clashes in Ethnic Identity

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

5. Crises and Choices

  • Unwilling to Change (or Holding on to That Old-Time Identity)

  • Self-Strengthening

  • Famine Relief, Factionalism, and Self-Strengthening

  • Women and Famine

  • The Loss of Tributary States: The Liuqius, Korea, and Vietnam

  • The War with France and the Impact of Self-Strengthening

  • Identity and Perception: The Roles of the Empress Dowager

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

6. The Devastating Nineties: Destroying Traditional Identities

  • Ideology for Change: Kang Youwei’s Intellectual Bomb

  • Political and Cultural Earthquake: Defeat by the “Dwarf People”

  • A New Phase of Imperialism: Carving the Melon

  • The Reform Movement and the Hundred Days: Clashing Identities

  • The Boxer Catastrophe: Which Identity Now?

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

Part 2: “No Checking the Tides of Change” – Reconstructing Social, Cultural, and Political Identity, 1901–1928

7. Revolutionaries: Manchu and Anti-Manchu

  • The Stirrings of a New China in Macroregional Cores

  • The Manchu Reform Movement: Education, Military Change, Constitutionalism

  • The Anti-Manchu Revolutionary Movement

  • The 1911 Revolution

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

8. Selecting Identities: The Early Republic

  • Legacies of the Revolution: The Power of Yuan Shikai

  • Women’s Suffrage amid Confucian Parameters

  • Capitalists to the Fore

  • The Power of the Gun

  • China Totters on the World Stage

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

9. Constructing a New Cultural Identity: The May Fourth Movement

  • Destroying the Confucian Straitjacket: Targeting Women and the Family

  • Language and Laboratories for a New Culture

  • The May Fourth Incident and Its Aftermath

  • Political Change First; Cultural Change Will Follow

  • Cultural Change First; Political Change Will Follow

  • Neotraditionalism

  • The Historical Significance of the May Fourth Movement

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

10. Drawing the Sword of Opposition: Identity Increasingly Politicized

  • The Birth of the Chinese Communist Party

  • Giving the Guomindang a New Identity

  • Things Fall Apart: Sun’s Death and the May 30th Movement

  • The Beginning of Mass Mobilization

  • The Emergence of Chiang Kai-shek and the Northern Expedition

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

Part 3: Revolution and Identity – Social Revolution and the Power of Tradition, 1928–1960

11. Revolution in Retreat: The Nanjing Decade

  • Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi): The Man and His Power

  • Military Power, Party Factionalism, and Residual Warlordism

  • Secrets of Chiang’s Ability to Retain Power

  • Chiang’s Record

  • Agriculture: The World of the Chinese Farmer and His Wife

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

12. Revolution Reborn: The Communists in the 1930s

  • The Party: “So Widely Scattered and So Badly Mauled”

  • Finding Its Way: The Party’s Factions

  • The Jiangxi Soviet

  • Land Reform (Actually, Land “Revolution”)

  • The Other Soviets

  • The Long March

  • Women on the Long March

  • Which Political Roads to Take?

  • Building the Base at Yan’an

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

13. A Rising Clash of National Identities: China and Japan, The 1920s and 1930s

  • A Case of Mistaken Identity

  • Japanese Aggression Turns Manchuria into Manchukuo

  • Japanese Aggression on the March

  • The Xi’an Incident

  • Marco Polo Bridge

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

14. The Sino–Japanese War, 1937–1945

  • The War’s General Course: An Overview

  • In the North: The Transportation War

  • Putting the Heat on Chiang

  • The Ichigo Offensive

  • The Exodus

  • Soldiers and the Military

  • Collaboration

  • Wartime Propaganda

  • The United States and China in Wartime

  • The Communists in Yan’an

  • Wartime Guomindang China

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

15. Toward Daybreak: Struggling for China’s Identity, 1945–1949

  • The Situation at War’s End

  • Economic Suicide

  • Political Disaster

  • Military Struggle

  • Did Chiang Lose the War or Did Mao Win the War?

  • Japan’s Colony, Taiwan

  • February 1947 and Its Impact

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

16. Paths to the Future

  • The Structure of the Communist Party-State

  • The East Is Red: Hallmarks of the Communist Revolution

  • At War with the United Nations: The Korean War

  • The First Five-Year Plan

  • The Taiwan Model

  • The Taiwan “Miracle”

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

17. Coming Unglued

  • “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom!”

  • The Great Leap Forward

  • The Worst Famine in History

  • The Sino–Soviet Split

  • Crack-Up

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

Part 4: From “Politics in Command” to the Glory of Getting Rich – Contemporary Change and Identity, 1961–2018

18. Death Dance: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

  • Why?

  • The Violently Radical Red Guard Phase

  • The Mystery of Lin Biao

  • The Year of the Dragon

  • Mao in Retrospect

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

19. Reforms and Reactions, 1978–1995

  • Opening the Window to the World

  • Economic Reforms on the Home Front

  • Political Authoritarianism

  • The Democracy Movement

  • Government Action

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

20. The Economic Miracle and Its Shadows, 1992–2018

  • The Jiang and Hu Years

  • Broad Ramifications of the Reforms

  • Corruption

  • Anti-Corruption as Political Tools

  • Environmental Crises

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

21. Whither China? 2008–2018

  • Human Rights

  • Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08

  • The Rule of General Secretary Xi Jinping

  • The Internet

  • The Roles and Status of Women

  • The Specter of Mao

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

22. Nationalism and Globalization

  • Evolution of Chinese Domestic and Foreign Policies

  • Globalization: The Unfolding Drama

  • The Belt and Road Initiative

  • Building Bases in Africa and Latin America

  • Soft Power

  • The South China Sea Controversy

  • Trouble in the East China Sea

  • Dealing with World Regions

  • Internal Others: Tibet and Xinjiang

23. A Question of Identity: The Republic of China on Taiwan since the 1970s

  • Birth of a Democracy

  • Taiwan’s Relationship with China

  • The Presidency of Chen Shui-bian

  • The Kuomintang Returns

  • The First Female President: Tsai Ing-wen

  • Economic and Social Changes

  • Diplomacy and Gender Roles

  • Whither Taiwan?

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