Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries

by Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Roderick MacFarquhar, Frederic Wakeman

Overview

The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world. With contributions by distinguished scholars in the field, the four anniversaries considered are the High Qing, the May Fourth Movement, forty years of communism in China, and ten years of the Deng era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315288758
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Roderick MacFarquhar, Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Frederic Wakeman

Table of Contents

One: 1839: The Proscenium of Late Imperial China; 1: Emperors and the Chinese Political System; 2: The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period; 3: Models of Historical Change; 4: The Enlightenment Mentality and the Chinese Intellectual Dilemma; Two: May Fourth Anniversary; 5: The May Fourth Movement as a Historical Turning Point; 6: The Social Agenda of May Fourth; 7: Modernity and Its Discontents; 8: The May Fourth Era; Three: The PRC's First Forty Years; 9: Powers of State, Paradoxes of Dominion; 10: The Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era; 11: State and Society in the Mao Era; 12: Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976; Four: The Deng Era; 13: The Deng Era's Uncertain Political Legacy; 14: The Lasting Effect of China's Economic Reforms, 1979-1989; 15: The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era; 16: Reflections on the Opening of China

Editorial Reviews

Based on the Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, September 1989, 16 papers identify the most enduring features of the Chinese system from earlier times. The papers, like the conference, are organized around four periods: high Qing before the Opium War, the May Fourth era, the Maoist era after 1949; and the era of Deng's reforms (putting the Deng era in historical perspective and identifying its future legacy). Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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