书名: A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World
作者: Rana Mitter (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (July 1, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0192803417
ISBN-13: 978-0192803412
Book Description
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.
Review
"A Bitter Revolution is...the first book to explore modern Chinese history through the May Fourth Movement. As such it is pioneering." -- National Post
"With compelling prose and insightful analysis, Rana Mitter paints a brilliant, lively portrait of the intellectual and political fervor behind the May Fourth Movement, and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, China's national identity. A Bitter Revolution is critical to understanding the soul of modern China" -- Iris Chang, New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking and The Chinese in America
"illuminating study..." -- Books In Brief, The Scotsman
"Mitter paints wonderful pen-portraits...he raises such a big question and does so in such strikingly good prose." -- Sunday Times
"A readable narrative history, accessable to students and a general audience" -- THES
"This is a brave book of big ideas sketched onto a huge canvas... this is a luminous and original study, written in a lively style, which will serve for years as an outstanding introduction to its subject."
About the Author
Rana Mitter is Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College. As well as being an established author of both books and journal articles, he has appeared on the History Channel.
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作者: Rana Mitter (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (July 1, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0192803417
ISBN-13: 978-0192803412
Book Description
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. By the 1920s the seemingly civilized world shaped over the last two thousand years by the legacy of the great philosopher Confucius was falling apart in the face of western imperialism and internal warfare. Chinese cities still bore the imprints of its ancient past with narrow, lanes and temples to long-worshipped gods, but these were starting to change with the influx of foreign traders, teachers, and missionaries, all eager to shape China's ancient past into a modern present. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war against Japan in the 1940s, Communism and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the new era of hope in the 1980s ended by the Tian'anmen uprising. He reveals the impetus behind the dramatic changes in Chinese culture and politics as being China's "New Culture" - a strain of thought which celebrated youth, individualism, and the heady mixture of strange and seductive new cultures from places as far apart as America, India, and Japan.
Review
"A Bitter Revolution is...the first book to explore modern Chinese history through the May Fourth Movement. As such it is pioneering." -- National Post
"With compelling prose and insightful analysis, Rana Mitter paints a brilliant, lively portrait of the intellectual and political fervor behind the May Fourth Movement, and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, China's national identity. A Bitter Revolution is critical to understanding the soul of modern China" -- Iris Chang, New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking and The Chinese in America
"illuminating study..." -- Books In Brief, The Scotsman
"Mitter paints wonderful pen-portraits...he raises such a big question and does so in such strikingly good prose." -- Sunday Times
"A readable narrative history, accessable to students and a general audience" -- THES
"This is a brave book of big ideas sketched onto a huge canvas... this is a luminous and original study, written in a lively style, which will serve for years as an outstanding introduction to its subject."
About the Author
Rana Mitter is Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College. As well as being an established author of both books and journal articles, he has appeared on the History Channel.
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