Patterns of Modern Chinese History / Charles A. Desnoyers.
"While there are a great many books that deal with Chinese history as a whole, or with modern Chinese history in the twentieth century, or thematically (e.g. 'Revolution' economics, etc.) this book deals with a broad narrative, introductory but detailed, of the period starting with the Qing Dynasty,...
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New York :
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[2017]
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Part 1. The past as prologue
- Origins to 221 BCE
- Patterns up close : Ordinary lives in ancient China : The Classic of Odes
- Imperial China before the Qing, 221 BCE-1644 CE
- Patterns up close : three transformative technologies
- Part 2. Patterns of modern Chinese history
- The apogee of empire : the Qing Dynasty through the Qianlong era, 1644-1795
- Patterns up close: Qing China through the Emperor's eyes
- The last empire in transition I : society and state, 1795-1900
- Patterns up close : the culture wars of the Taiping era
- The last empire in transition II : imperialism and resistance, reform and reaction, 1795-1900
- Patterns up close : the Chinese Education Mission
- From empire to people's republic : 1901-1949
- Patterns up close : Chinese patterns of revolution?
- The People's Republic : the Maoist era, 1949-1976
- Patterns up close : from "socialist realism" to "history as a verb" : the odyssey of Hung Liu
- The four modernizations, 1976-1989
- Patterns up close : Asian values and human rights
- Toward the "harmonious society" : building the fragile superpower, 1989-present
- Patterns up close : culture wars : Taiwan, the Peoples' Republic, and the struggle for heritage
- Epilogue: Back to the future?