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A Bitter Revolution - China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback, New ed)
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A Bitter Revolution - China's Struggle with the Modern World (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Making of the Modern World
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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.
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