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Making China modern from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping Klaus Mühlhahn

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019Description: xiii, 717 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780674737358
  • 9780674248311
  • 0674737350
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Making China modernDDC classification:
  • 951 23
LOC classification:
  • DS754
Other classification:
  • RI03.01
  • RI03.03
  • SF01.01
  • SA02
  • ASIEN
  • MH 50030
  • NK 3400
  • 15.79
Contents:
Part 1. The rise and fall of Qing China: Age of Glory: 1644-1800
Reordering the Chinese world: 1800-1870
Late Qing predicaments: 1870-1900
Part 2. Chinese revolutions: Upending the empire: 1900-1919
Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920-1937
China at war: 1938-1948
Part 3. Remaking China: Socialist transformation: 1949-1955
Leaping ahead: 1955-1965
Overthrowing everything: 1966-1976
Part 4. China rising
Reform and opening: 1977-1989
Overall advance: 1990-2012
Ambitions and anxieties: contemporary China
Summary: Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.--
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks R (Reference collection) R:DS754 .M84 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-5988

Part 1. The rise and fall of Qing China: Age of Glory: 1644-1800

Reordering the Chinese world: 1800-1870

Late Qing predicaments: 1870-1900

Part 2. Chinese revolutions: Upending the empire: 1900-1919

Rebuilding during the Republican Era: 1920-1937

China at war: 1938-1948

Part 3. Remaking China: Socialist transformation: 1949-1955

Leaping ahead: 1955-1965

Overthrowing everything: 1966-1976

Part 4. China rising

Reform and opening: 1977-1989

Overall advance: 1990-2012

Ambitions and anxieties: contemporary China

Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.--

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