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Book China : a modern history / Michael Dillon.
Publication year: 2010.
Language: English
Call Number DS774 .D55 2010
Media class: Book
Publisher: London ;New York : I.B. Tauris ;New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781850435822 1850435820
Extent: viii, 504 p. ; 24 cm.
Description:
Rise and fall of the Chinese Empire -- China and the West : the road to the Opium War -- Taiping, Nian and Muslim uprisings (1850-1884) -- Restoration and Western colonisation (1856-1898) -- Boxer rising and imperial decline (1899-1911) -- Struggle for the Republic of China (1911-1916) -- May Fourth movement : Communists and nationalists (1917-1924) -- Northern expedition and united front (1923-1927) -- Nanjing decade and the long march (1927-1937) -- Japanese invasion, second united front and civil war (1937-1949) -- Interlude : new China, new history? -- Liberation and the birth of the People's Republic of China (1949-1954) -- Economic and social policies (1950-1957) -- Great Leap Forward (1958-1965) -- Cultural revolution (1966-1980) -- Modernising and opening China -- Tibet and Xinjiang -- Hong Kong and Taiwan -- China after Deng Xiaoping -- Conclusion : China rising and a 'harmonious society'.
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