China today is poised to play a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation was very different. 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 frompre-modern to modern world. 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 hadcollapsed. Now a new group of urban, modernizing thinkers began to reject Confucianism and traditional culture in general as hindrances in the fight against imperialism, warlordism, and the oppression of women and the poor. Forward-looking, individualistic, embracing youth, this "New Culturemovement" made a lasting impact on the critical decades that followed: the 1940s, with the war against Japan and the civil war between the Nationalist Party and the Communists; the 1960s, with the bizarre, seemingly anarchic world of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution; and the 1980s, with the rise ofa semi-market economy against the backdrop of continued single-party rule and growing inequality.
Throughout each of these dramatically different eras, the May 4 themes persisted, from the insanity of the Cultural Revolution to the recent romance with space-age technology. China, Mitter concludes, still seems to be in search of a new narrative about what the country is, and what it should become. And May 4 remains a touchstone in that search.
發表於2024-12-22
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This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
評分This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The “Bitter Revolution” of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that climaxed i...
圖書標籤: 曆史 五四 中國現代史 海外中國研究 政治學 牛津大學齣版社 中國 Mitter
豆瓣本書頁麵下麵第一篇,劉瑜的書評,啟人深思
評分不錯的書,從革命 角度來看中國現代史。但是些地方比較牽強。
評分用五四串聯中國的二十世紀。是一個有趣的視角。當然很多事情無法用一個五四legacy解釋,作者本人無此野心,在書中開篇便說明瞭局限性。追求德先生賽先生和反帝,確實是二十世紀的重要主題。選角有趣,重點不是最有名的李大釗陳獨秀,而是鄒韜奮丁玲等。好吧我知道後麵二位也不是小角色但是麵對西方讀者,你懂的。
評分豆瓣本書頁麵下麵第一篇,劉瑜的書評,啟人深思
評分recommend the Tiananmen chapter.
A Bitter Revolution 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載