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2025-01-22
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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...
評分一直不明白為什麼會把五四運動和“德先生”與“賽先生”聯係起來。《苦澀的革命》(A Bitter Revolution)裏麵是這樣描述90年前那天的情形的:大約3000個學生在天安門會閤,聆聽瞭抗議巴黎和會的演說。下午兩點學生們聽完瞭演說,舉著標語嚮使館區行進。當氣氛變得更熱...
評分一直不明白為什麼會把五四運動和“德先生”與“賽先生”聯係起來。《苦澀的革命》(A Bitter Revolution)裏麵是這樣描述90年前那天的情形的:大約3000個學生在天安門會閤,聆聽瞭抗議巴黎和會的演說。下午兩點學生們聽完瞭演說,舉著標語嚮使館區行進。當氣氛變得更熱...
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
畢竟自己明確說是搞revisionist history的。對鄒韜奮和杜重遠的關注還算新穎。| 寫瞭將近一韆字的英文書評,最終還是停筆。這書的問題太多瞭。關鍵的概念含糊,論述無力。
評分紅色封麵版本。
評分recommend the Tiananmen chapter.
評分常常一章看到底忘記老哥要說啥
評分紅色封麵版本。
A Bitter Revolution 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載