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The Age of Openness - China before Mao (Paperback)
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The Age of Openness - China before Mao (Paperback)
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Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a
catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this
engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the
twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend
towards openness.Frank Dikotter argues that the years from 1900 to
1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with
the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly
evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of
law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and
out of the country; in open minds thriving on ideas from the
humanities and sciences; and in open markets and sustained growth
in the economy.Freedom of association, freedom to travel, freedom
of religion, freedom to trade and relative freedom of speech
wrought profound changes in the texture of everyday life. While
globalisation itself was a vector of cultural diversification,
pre-existing constellations of ideas, practices and institutions
did not simply vanish on contact with the rest of the world, but on
the contrary expanded even further, just as much as local
industries diversified thanks to their inclusion into a much larger
global market. Arguably the country was at its most diverse in its
entire history on the eve of World War II - in terms of politics,
society, culture and the economy.Accessible to general readers,
while providing an integration of ideas that will be valuable for
specialists, this book presents a fresh way of approaching the
history of modern China.
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