The Search for Modern China

Höfundar: Jonathan D. Spence; Janet Chen (Útgáfa: 4)
The Search for Modern China

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The gold standard for the modern Chinese history course, for a new generation The Search for Modern China originated in a legendary course at Yale taught by the late Jonathan Spence and has been the best-selling text for students and teachers of modern Chinese history ever since. Janet Chen (Princeton University), a leading scholar and expert in social and cultural history, updates The Search for Modern China for a new generation.

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Útgefandi
W. W. Norton
ISBN
9781324069980
Print ISBN
9781324070023
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
4
Höfundar
Jonathan D. Spence; Janet Chen
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-06-10
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2
Efnisflokkar
Saga › Kína

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Publisher’s Notice
  • Also by the Authors
  • About the Authors
  • Frontispiece
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Tables
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Use of Pinyin
  • Chapter 1: The Late Ming
  • Town and Farm
  • Corruption and Hardship
  • The Ming Collapse
  • Chapter 2: The Manchu Conquest
  • Conquering the Ming
  • Adapting to China
  • Chapter 3: Kangxi’s Consolidation
  • Taiwan and Maritime China
  • Wooing the Intellectuals
  • Defining the Borders
  • A Mixed Legacy
  • Chapter 4: Yongzheng’s Authority
  • The Question of Taxes
  • The Center and Channels of Power
  • Moral Authority
  • Chapter 5: Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong
  • Eighteenth-Century Confucianism
  • The Dream of the Red Chamber
  • Qianlong’s Later Years
  • Chapter 6: China and the Eighteenth-Century World
  • Foreigners and Chinese Law
  • Opium
  • Western Images of China
  • Chapter 7: The First Clash with the West
  • Trade and Opium
  • Britain’s Military Response
  • The New Treaty System
  • Chapter 8: The Crisis Within
  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
  • Foreign Pressures
  • The Nian Rebellion
  • Muslim Revolts
  • Chapter 9: Restoration through Reform
  • Defining Foreign Policy
  • The Missionary Presence
  • Overseas Chinese
  • Chapter 10: New Tensions in the Late Qing
  • The Reform Movement of 1898
  • Three Sides of Nationalism
  • Emerging Forces
  • Chapter 11: The End of the Dynasty
  • New Railways, New Army
  • Nationalists and Socialists
  • Qing Fall
  • Chapter 12: The New Republic
  • The Rule of Yuan Shikai
  • Militarists in China and Chinese in France
  • Chapter 13: “A Road Is Made”
  • Marxist Stirrings
  • The Facets of May Fourth
  • The Comintern and the Birth of the CCP
  • Chapter 14: The Fractured Alliance
  • Launching the Northern Expedition
  • Shanghai Spring
  • Wuhan Summer, Autumn Disasters
  • Chapter 15: The Guomindang in Power
  • Culture and Ideology
  • China and the United States
  • China and Japan
  • Chapter 16: Communist Survival
  • Mao Zedong and the Rural Soviets
  • The Long March
  • Crisis at Xi’an
  • Chapter 17: World War II
  • China Divided
  • Chongqing and Yan’an, 1938–1941
  • Chongqing and Yan’an in the Widening War
  • War’s End
  • Chapter 18: The Civil War, 1945–1949
  • Land Reform and the Manchurian Base
  • The Losing Battle with Inflation
  • Defeat of the Guomindang Armies
  • Chapter 19: The Birth of the People’s Republic
  • The Structure of the New Government
  • The Korean War
  • Mass Party, Mass Campaigns
  • Chapter 20: Planning the New Society
  • Unity and Control
  • Foreign Policy
  • Army Reform
  • The Hundred Flowers
  • Chapter 21: Deepening the Revolution
  • The Sino-Soviet Rift
  • Political Investigation and Socialist Education
  • Chapter 22: Cultural Revolution
  • Launching the Cultural Revolution
  • Party Retrenchment and the Death of Lin Biao
  • Chapter 23: Reopening the Doors
  • Attacking Confucius and Lin Biao
  • Defining the Economy, 1974–1975
  • 1976: The Old Guard Dies
  • Chapter 24: Redefining Revolution
  • The Fifth Modernization
  • Taiwan and the Special Economic Zones
  • “Truth from Facts”
  • Chapter 25: Levels of Power
  • Governing China in the 1980s
  • The Problems of Prosperity, 1983–1984
  • Rebuilding the Law
  • Chapter 26: Testing the Limits
  • Broadening the Base
  • Social Strains
  • The Breaking Point
  • Chapter 27: Century’s End
  • Zones and Games
  • Little Dragons
  • Into the Sea
  • Deng’s Passing
  • Chapter 28: Breakthrough?
  • The Hu/Wen Years
  • The Economic Challenges
  • Global Preoccupations
  • Cultural Parameters
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Glossary
  • Image and Text Credits
  • A Note on the Calligraphy
  • Index