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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World
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9780192806055
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Oxford University Press, USA
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Subject
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History
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Paperback
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Year
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2005
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In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over the Paris peace conference triggered a vast student protest that led in turn to "the May Fourth Movement." Just seven years before, the 2,000-year-old imperial system had collapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlord-ism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, and embracing youth, this "New Culture movement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed. Throughout each of the dramatically different eras that followed, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to China's recent romance with space-age technology.
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Prologue Tian'anmen Square, 1989 1. Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919 2. Saving the Nation: the era of the May Fourth Movement 3. Erasing the past: iconoclasm and the destruction of tradition 4. Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers 5. Making a stand: the lure and limits of democracy Epilogue The Legacy of May Fourth
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