The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power
China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the society it has become and its rise to such influence. This timely study uses recent research to explore how China has been transformed from an economic and political backwater at the start of the twentieth century to its current pre-eminent position one hundred years later.

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The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power
China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the society it has become and its rise to such influence. This timely study uses recent research to explore how China has been transformed from an economic and political backwater at the start of the twentieth century to its current pre-eminent position one hundred years later.

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The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power

The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power

by Iain Robertson Scott
The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power

The Creation of Modern China, 1894-2008: The Rise of a World Power

by Iain Robertson Scott

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China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the society it has become and its rise to such influence. This timely study uses recent research to explore how China has been transformed from an economic and political backwater at the start of the twentieth century to its current pre-eminent position one hundred years later.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783084975
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication date: 06/30/2016
Series: Anthem Perspectives in History , #1
Pages: 356
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 16.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Iain Robertson Scott is Director of Sixth Form at Stewart’s Melville College and The Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Last of the Emperors, 1894—1912; Chapter 2: Division, Deceit and New Directions, 1912—1937; Chapter 3: War and Civil War, 1937—1949; Chapter 4: Communism in Action, 1949—1957; Chapter 5: The Great Leap Forward, 1957-65; Chapter 6: The Cultural Revolution, 1966—1976; Chapter 7: Deng Xiaoping and the Boom Years, 1976—2008

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