China's Quest for Modernization
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China's Quest for Modernization

A Historical Perspective

  1. 409 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

China's Quest for Modernization

A Historical Perspective

About this book

The seventeen essays collected here, written by Chinese and U.S. scholars, explore the reasons for China's historical failure to modernize and develop recommendations on the path China should follow in its current quest for modernization. The book opens with a general review and then moves into economic, political and social, cultural, foreign relations, population, comparative, and regional studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notes to this edition
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Approaches to the Study of Modern Chinese History: External versus Internal Causations
  8. 2. Middle Country Radicalism: The May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou
  9. 3. The Evolution of Modern Chinese Society from the Perspective of Population Changes, 1840–1949
  10. 4. Historical Demography in Late Imperial China: Recent Research Results and Implications
  11. 5. Modernization and the Structure of the Chinese Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  12. 6. A New Approach to China’s Century of Great Transformation, 1840s–1940s
  13. 7. Western Learning and Social Transmutation in the Late Qing
  14. 8. Dowager Empress Cixi and Toshimichi: A Comparative Study of Modernization in China and Japan
  15. 9. Political Parties, Party Conflicts, and Society in Early Republican China
  16. 10. Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China’s Foreign Relations
  17. 11. The Emergence and Development of China’s Modern Capitalist Enterprises
  18. 12. Popular Protest and Political Progress in Modern China
  19. 13. Power Structure and Modernization Policies in Twentieth-Century China
  20. 14. The Influence of Shanghai’s Modernization on the Economy of the Yangzi Valley
  21. 15. State and Civil Society in the History of Chinese Modernity
  22. 16. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China
  23. 17. Issues in the Evolution of Modern China in East Asian Comparative Perspective
  24. Contributors
  25. Back cover

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