A Bitter Revolution China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback)
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In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's...
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In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrageover the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as
hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this "New Culture movement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that
followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China's recent romance with space-age technology.
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PART I: SHOCK ; 1. Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919 ; 2. A Tale of Two Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and the May Fourth Generation ; 3. Experiments in Happiness: Life and Love in New Culture China ; 4. Goodbye Confucius: New Culture, New Politics ; PART II: AFTERSHOCK ; 5. A Land of Death: Darkness over China ; 6. Tomorrow the Whole World Will Be Red: The Cultural Revolution and the Distortions of May Fourth ; 7. Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers: Reform and the 'New May Fourth' ; 8. Learning to Let Go: The May Fourth Legacy in the New Millennium
Autoren-Porträt von Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) and co-editor (with Patrick Major) of Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social Histories (2003). He has broadcast on topics to do with ancient and modern China and Japan on History Channel televisiondocumentaries and on radio.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rana Mitter
- 378 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- ISBN-10: 019280605X
- ISBN-13: 9780192806055
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.05.2005
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Rana Mitter's A Biiter Revolution is an ambitious and thoughtful study of China in the 20th century through the light of the modernising, anti-foreigner movement known as the May 4th movement, which draws illuminating parallels between China and Japan, Weimar Germany and much else."--History Today "A fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China.... What is most intriguing about Mitters account is not what was lost in the dark decades that followed, but how much endured."--Publishers Weekly"Fresh and interesting."--Library Journal
"In his impressive and inventively researched book, Rana Mitter uses the May Fourth movement as a theme around which to explore China's bitter 20th century, with its repeated upheavals, foreign invasion and the death of more than 100 million people from man-made and natural disasters. He brings alive the promise felt by the intellectuals, journalists, writers and entrepreneurs who subscribed to the movement."--Financial Times
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