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China 1949 - Year of Revolution (Paperback)
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China 1949 - Year of Revolution (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
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"Excellent." The Economist "A gripping account." South China
Morning Post "Well worth reading." The Morning Star "A persuasive
and readable narrative." History Today "Elegantly written." The
Tablet "An excellent study." The Chartist "Engaging." Asia Times
The events of 1949 in China reverberated across the world and
throughout the rest of the century. That tumultuous year saw the
dramatic collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s ‘pro-Western’
Nationalist government, overthrown by Mao Zedong and his communist
armies, and the foundation of the People’s Republic of China.
China 1949 follows the huge military forces that tramped across the
country, the exile of once-powerful leaders and the alarm of the
foreign powers watching on. The well-known figures of the
Revolution are all here. But so are lesser known military and
political leaders along with a host of ‘ordinary’ Chinese
citizens and foreigners caught in the maelstrom. They include the
often neglected but crucial role played by the ‘Guangxi
faction’ within Chiang’s own regime, the fate of a country
woman who fled her village carrying her baby to avoid the fighting,
a prominent Shanghai business man and a schoolboy from Nanyang,
ordered by his teachers to trek south with his classmates in search
of safety. Shadowing both the leaders and the people of China in
1949, Hutchings reveals the lived experiences, aftermath and
consequences of this pivotal year -- one in which careers were made
and ruined, and popular hopes for a ‘new China’ contrasted with
fears that it would change the country forever. The legacy of 1949
still resonates today as the founding myth, source of national
identity and root of the political behaviour of modern China.
Graham Hutchings has written a vivid, gripping account of the year
in which China abruptly changed course, and pulled the rest of
world history along with it.
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